Eating Can Boost Mood，UK Researchers Find （2002）Feeling tired and stressed out? A new study provides evidence that a bowl of ice cream or mashed potatoes can lift your spirits．Researchers from the University of Surrey in the UK investigated t...
Does a hard-working woman sweat like a man? A new study published this month in the journal Experimental Physiology provides persuasive evidence that women do sweat copiously during exercise. But fit women seem to sweat differently than unfit people...
U.S. officials say a cap on a damaged oil well in the Gulf of Mexico appears to have a small leak, but they say there are no plans to remove the cap from the well. Engineers are carefully studying the well for any evidence of problems. Engineers spot...
Fury in the streets of Istanbul, Turkey where hundreds tried to storm the Israeli Consulate today. It was a similar scene in Greece and parts of the Arab World reacting to Israel's deadly attack this morning on an international aid flotilla bound for...
Why were the safety recommendations of your own engineers ignored? I wasnt involved in any of the decision-making. Its clear that there were some discussion amongst the engineering team and that an engineering judgment was taken. Its clear to me that...
Federal agents investigating the Times Square attempted bombing have custody of three people. They were detained on alleged immigration violations. Attorney General Eric Holder says they were picked up during searches in parts of the northeastern US...
New York City police are searching for a white man in his 40s who may have been behind a failed car bombing in Times Square last night. They're poring over hundreds of hours of video surveillance from the area. The device was found in a Nissan Pathfi...
Rwanda is actually at the leading edge of developing nations in tapping these technologies to advance health and health care. - Susan Dentzer Information technology has come more slowly to the area of health care perhaps than some other fields. But t...
Youve heard of waterboarding used as a means to get suspected terrorists to talk. Some people object to such methods on the grounds that they amount to torture. But in the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences, psychologist Shane OMara of Trinity Coll...
This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Adam Hinterthuer. Got a minute？ When an Iraqi reporter threw his shoe at President Bush, University of Washington neurologists were delighted. But not because of politics. The fling was just real...
