Ruh-roh: Research published this week reveals that city dwellers are regularly inhaling antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs). What does this actually mean for you, a regular guy who breathes air? It means that your once easily-treatable infections may acquire the ability to survive antibiotic treatment—and eventually evolve into...
When spirals occur in the real world—say, for instance, in cacti or croissants—no one stops to think, That succulent/pastry needs to be mindful, ignore those spirals and focus on a completely different succulent/pastry until it stops being a spiral. Obviously not: It’s only in terms of the...
Most of us wear sunglasses for two reasons and two reasons only: To quit squinting and to look suave as heckin’ heck. But there’s one even better reason to wear sunglasses, according to Christopher Quinn, O.D., president of the American Optometric Association: To not go completely blind....
For some strange reason, many humans have become completely infatuated with beans, as demonstrated by the incredible 300,000+ people who follow a Facebook page called Things Full of Beans That Shouldn’t Be Full of Beans. (The account is exactly what the name suggests—photos of beans in peculiar...
You’d be hard pressed to find a parent who thinks kids don’t eat too much sugar. After all, it’s everywhere, in everything, practically in the air we breathe. You already know there’s way too much sugar in a bowl of cereal. But, quick: How much sugar is...
Having a headache may be the most clichéd not-in-the-mood excuse in existence for women wanting to avoid sex. But research published in the Journal of Neuroscience reveals that pain really does have a libido-busting effect on women—and, apparently, only women. To arrive at this conclusion, researchers injected...
A long time ago, one of our distant ancestors thought, I want to suck the thick white liquid right outta that cow-boob. Thousands of years later, not much has changed: Americans consume approximately 630 pounds of dairy products—including milk, cheese, yogurt and ice cream—per year. Whether these...
New research claims that eating directly before going to sleep might increase your risk of developing either breast or prostate cancer (depending which you own), an unfortunate development considering my penchant for gorging on peanut butter pretzels moments before passing out. Specifically, the research found that having...
What goes in must come out. What goes up must come down. And after a dude ejaculates, he sometimes feel really, really sad. Philosophers and scientists have long had a few theories as to why men get these feelings, but now psychology professor Robert Schweitzer of Queensland...
We’ve all experienced them: Those sweaty, miserably humid summer nights when it’s just too hot to sleep. But why does the weather have such an impact on our snooze time? “The brain regulates body temperature and sleep in a shared area called the hypothalamus, so it’s not...
Evaluating the healthiest type of encased meat is sort of like ranking types of ice cream by the same standard. Because every nutritionist I spoke to quickly offered the same response: None of them. “They’re all so high in sodium, and the kind you find on supermarket...
I spend every workday bouncing between feeling like I just shotgunned a gallon of crack water and feeling like I need a month-long hibernation period (normally only about an hour apart). According to science, this isn’t a bipolar disorder, but simply the fact that I’ve been drinking...