Another study has drawn a link between high levels of pesticides in blood tests and increased risk of type 2 diabetes, particularly in individuals that are already overweight.
Published in the medical journal Diabetes Care, the new study is one of several of the sort finding evidence that being exposed to “older pesticides” known as “persistant organic pollutants” -organochlorines, PCBs and other chemicals- might up diabetes risk. Diet is the main source of
There are still parts of our world that have yet to be explored but as scientists continue to plumb the depths of our planet they are discovering things which they considered to be either extinct or fit into the category of what they call living fossils.
The newest member of the living fossil category has been discovered off the coast of the Republic of Palau in an underwater cave. Originally discovered during a 35m dive scientists had to do some extensive genetic studying and creat a new
A wild and rare capybara has been spotted out and about at a Paso Robles wastewater treatment plant, “consuming vegetation in the sewer ponds.”
It’s believed that the sighting is of the same capybara spotted in the area a couple of times over the past few years, and the massive rodent is apparently good at eluding capture and public appearances. A witness who first saw the creature described it as the size of a “small pig,” and wildlife experts say the creatures weigh between
A study recently undertaken by the University of Michigan cites childhood obesity and drug abuse as the two biggest problems facing American youth.
However, the results were culled not from studies of youth, but a poll of adults to see what America’s grown-ups believe is the most harmful thing to the nation’s youngsters. Not surprisingly, obesity topped out the poll- essentially tied with drug use as the major bad things kids in America face. And from a
I usually like writing about some of the cooler science and technology that I find on any given day but sometimes the stuff that I run across scares the hell out of me and this is one of those posts.
You see, I wrote the other day about humans soon having the ability to embed electronic circuits in our skin, nicely referred to as
Japan is still recovering from the major earthquake and its follow-up tsunami that struck the country back in March 2011 but the effects of that natural disaster is having far wider effects than just the nuclear reactors that are still a threat to the country.
Not only have scientists found that the earthquake
Exoplanets are astronomers and other scientists newest toy. These planets exist beyond our galaxy and at last count scientists believe that have found 573 of them.
The one type of exoplanets that have scientists scratching their heads extra hard are ones termed as dark planets and thanks to the Kepler spacecraft scientists have a new planet to puzzle over. Called TrES-2b, and the size of Jupiter some 750 light-years away, it is considered to be the
One of the biggest dangers facing current; and future, space exploration is the large amount of debris that is littered in orbit around the Earth. The most recent occurrence that illustrates this danger is when the astronauts at the International Space Station had to evacuate to their rescue crafts because it was threatened by some space debris coming too close to the station.
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For every scary story we get regarding technology and human interaction we also get some really cool ones that are making a real difference in people’s lives.
Today’s installment has to do with Nintendo’s Wii and people trying to recover from strokes. Thanks to a team of researchers at the University of Notre Dame stroke sufferers can now continue their rehabilitation at home with the help of remote therapists and Wehab.
Wehab is a a new “game” that
There was a time when things like robots and cyborgs were purely things of science fiction, and as we have seen in just the last few years alone this is changing to the point that they are just around the corner, and that alone can be kind of a scary thought.
Well, it seems that a team of engineers have discovered a way to add even more scariness to that scenario. It’s called “epidermal electronic system” or EES which is a rather nondescript way of describing an electronic
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