Health

Ketosis is known to work wonders in terms of short-term weight loss. But what about the diet’s effects over the long term?

Could Alzheimer’s be prevented with a simple vaccine? This startup posits that it can.

For a drug with zero fatalities and huge money-making possibilities, why is marijuana illegal in the first place? Author Johann Hari runs us through why he thinks it should be legal.

Are hot dogs or hamburgers the healthier option? It’s a question that has plagued many a summer barbecue guest.

Your mother most likely went through a lot to raise you when you were a baby… including getting some of the worst sleep of her life.

We constantly seek new information to keep our mind’s sharp.

Thanks in no small part to the digitization of our social lives, depression is becoming a bigger and bigger issue in western societies. So how do we reverse it?

U.S. drivers faced a 12% greater risk of dying in a car crash on April 20 over the past 25 years. The likely explanation? High drivers.

It neutralized not only the tumor it was injected into but malignancies all over the body.

One patient retained the ability to dress herself, make a simple meal, and even change her plans depending on the weather.

Contrary to what we’ve been told for decades, depression isn’t coming from inside our heads. This author and big thinker tells us that it’s coming much more from the society we live in.

Where does Valentine’s Day come from? Let us introduce you to the festival of Lupercalia, a festival when naked young men and women ran around whipping one another with animal hides.

The first medicinal marijuana patient in Texas uses it to treat severe epilepsy. And although 10 companies are allowed to grow marijuana within Texas state borders, the substance itself is still illegal.

Can’t find meaning in your life? A new study has the next best thing. 

In a landmark study for the tissue engineering community, scientists have successfully grown and reconstructed new ears for children born with a birth defect.

Researchers discover how the brain triggers our attraction to the opposite sex and sexual behavior.

Three questions for the designer of a video game in line with the times. 

15 million Aztecs were probably killed by a form of salmonella the Spanish brought from Europe.

Nigeria, which accounted for more than half of all polio cases in 2012, reported zero new cases of the infectious disease in 2017. 

While the concept of “burning” fat is not altogether wrong, the process of losing fat probably isn’t what you imagine.

There is more than one type of bilingualism.

Studies have also shown that two weeks of sleep deprivation increases the consumption of excess calories, particularly from energy-dense, high-carbohydrate snacks. 

Some people naturally believe they’re thinner than they really are. Here’s how to tell if you’re susceptible. 

In the 1970s, the Australian moral philosopher Peter Singer began to argue that it is ethical to give parents the option to euthanise infants with disabilities.

This new pill could make it easier for people to stick to the treatment. 

British doctors publish a study of a woman who cured herself of cancer with the aid of a household spice.

It’s more than just weight gain—it’s chronic inflammation and weak immunity.

Is high IQ really something that can genuinely turn people on? Apparently so — but only to a certain point. 

Homeopathic manufacturers take advantage of sick and vulnerable populations in criminal ways—and the FDA is, after much absence, starting to crack down.

The biologist Trofim Lysenko, blamed for millions of deaths, is experiencing a revival in Russia.