Undergoing weight loss surgery not only yields numerous health benefits, but also improves intimate relationships, according to a new research.
The "love" hormone oxytocin has similar brain effects as being drunk with alcohol, a new study has found.
While maternal breast milk has proven an effective way of passing vital nutrients and immune-boosting proteins into a newborn baby’s system, a new study published in journal JAMA Pediatrics suggests that it may leave premature infants particularly vulnerable to cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection. In most cases causing serious disease, and in chronic infections, may even lead to death.
While we’re a long way from the legal drinking ages making any drastic changes here in the United States, new research surfacing in behavioral biology may point towards a hidden benefit linked to compounds found in alcohol.
Imagine yourself completely contained; isolated and breathing a limited amount of oxygen, all while some potentially infectious pathogens lie on-board with you. Well, while it might not be Pandora’s box or a strain of the Ebola virus, this scenario is a frighteningly real study for researchers on the International Space Station.
In the Brazilian state of Goias, situated in the center of the nation and home to the national capital of Brasilia, residents’ expressions in the sunbaked hills of Araras are all but non-existent. Blood-red eyes peer through twisted expressions, across faces scorched and scarred by the sun. Home to a very rare, and very dangerous genetic skin disorder, Xeroderma pigmentosum, the residents of Araras have become “children of the night” as they evade the excruciating effects that sunlight has on their dermal layers.
Sized up at only 3 feet long and one foot tall, a new dog-sized dinosaur of the early Jurassic period was recently indexed into the fossil record after Venezuelan paleontologists harvested skeletal fossils they found in the La Quinta rock formations of the Venezuelan Andes. With its fossils carbon dated at roughly 200-million-years-old, the new species named Laquintasaura venezuelae, because of the region it was discovered in, opens up an entirely new avenue of the evolutionary tree (also known as phylogeny) as it gives scientists a deeper understanding of the poorly documented late-Triassic/earl-Jurassic periods.
For bees, a nectar-filled flower field abundant with pollen may as well be the Holy Grail. And as such, protecting this sweet source is a primary cause for concern. Most species display a poker face of sorts to hide the spoils from anyone other than its nestmates, but one study shows that in Brazil one species of bees is defending its pollen with a much stronger signal.
