Tricks to pass drug tests are like cures for the hiccups
there are many to choose from and some are spectacularly dumb. Most recently, there were four cases of people becoming ill after taking large amounts of vitamin B3 (niacin) to rid themselves of incriminating chemicals…
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Smell is often our first response to stimuli. It alerts us to fire before we see flames. It makes us recoil before we taste rotten food. But although smell is a basic sense, it’s also at the forefront of neurological research. Scientists are still exploring how, precisely, we pick up odorants, process them and interpret […]
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Two regions of the brain linked to optimism have been discovered by researchers. The identification of the sites that signal positive thinking could shed light on the causes of depression, they say.
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Scientists hacking a smallpox-like virus into doing battle with cancer have given a new weapon to their microscopic warrior.
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After looking through the nutrition facts of literally every food from the menus of nearly 20 different fast food restaurants, here’s a list of the 88 most unhealthy items.
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Throw some variety into your running program to make things interesting and become a better runner.
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James Watson, famous for DNA research but widely condemned for recent comments about intelligence levels among blacks, retired Thursday from his post at a prestigious research institution.
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A tendency to extract messages from meaningless noise could be an early sign of schizophrenia, according to a Yale study.
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What would happen if you stay awake, say, oh for 11 days straight? Would you suffer brain damage or even die? Here
s the story of a high school stunt that turned into a real scientific research into sleep deprivation from Alex Boeses Elephants on Acid and Other Bizarre Experiments.
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Researchers say that an extract made from broccoli sprouts may prevent skin cancer when applied directly to the skin. VOA’s Jessica Berman reports scientists say broccoli contains a chemical that stimulates the body’s natural anti-cancer ability.
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"We started working on developing the site back in October 2004," Kevin Rose told ZDNet "We started toying around with the idea a couple of months prior to that, but it was early October when we actually started creating what would become the beta version of digg. The site launched to the world on December 5th 2004."
Kevin Rose's friend David Prager (The Screen Savers, This Week in Tech) originally wanted to call the site “Diggnation”, but Kevin wanted a simpler name. He chose the name "Digg", because users are able to "dig" stories, out of those submitted, up to the front page. The site was called “Digg” instead of “Dig” because the domain name “dig.com” was previously registered. “Diggnation” would eventually be used as the title of Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht's weekly podcast.