Persons who drink more than three cups of coffee a day has a lesser risk of getting a type of skin cancer known as basal cell carcinoma (BCC).
The global population is set to reach the 7 billion mark on October 31 according to the United Nations Population Fund in a new report.
An international team of researchers have identified the mud volcanoes at Isua in southwest Greenland as a possible birthplace for life on Earth by studying 3.8 billion-year-old formations.
Keep out of the sun in the afternoons when exposure to ultraviolet radiation is more damaging.
Pacemakers are expensive and valued at £15,000 to £35,000. However, these are considered useful and some specialized versions can even help in rectifying heart failure, according to some doctors in the U.S.
Thailand's floods have washed over crocodile farms pens and swept the reptiles downstream to Bangkok's northern suburbs threatening to make a meal out of residents of townhouse subdivisions there.
Astronomers were finally able to catch a good look at Pluto's twin planet, the distant Eris and is one of the brightest objects in the solar system.
Virgin Active, a popular Health Club all over the world, opens its awesome campaign for RetroAerobics. And for their massive promotion, the club was able to convince Harry Langdon, a popular photographer, to use Jane Fonda’s Retro pictures. Fonda’s pictures were taken during the 80’s when she was about to release a book about health and fitness.
Ascariasis, an intestinal infection caused by a parasitic roundworm, has plagued man for the longest time, affecting over one billion people in China, South East Asia, South America, and in Africa.
When preparing to deliver a baby, physicians look at fetal heart rate patterns to guide them in deciding whether or not to perform a C-section. But without a standard to guide physicians during those critical hours, doctors and nurses often resort to guessing.
The massive 7.2 magnitude earthquake in eastern Turkey has opened the lines of communication between the governments of Turkey and Israel for humanitarian reasons. Turkish officials say the death toll from Sunday's earthquake now stands at 523. The prime minister's center for crisis and emergency management further reported 1,650 people were injured and a total of 185 were rescued from the rubble so far.
Rio Tinto plans to conduct a complex testing program in 2012 for its VK1 exploration technology.
Australia, a country largely recognized as the world's biggest coal exporter by volume and a major contributor to the rise of developing economies, has been found also a major contributor to the global environment's rapid deterioration.
Better management of data could substantially raise vaccination rates, U.S. public health researchers say. A group of researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health estimated that the coverage of vaccination around the world could be significantly improved by combining administrative data with survey data.
Young people at risk of depression are more likely to listen habitually and repetitively to heavy metal music. University of Melbourne researcher Dr Katrina McFerran has found.
Elenin an "ex-comet," one that should soon be forgotten. on Yeomans of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif gave this assessment of Comet Elenin which became an internet sensation when it was tagged as a “doomsday” comet that would bring disaster to Earth.
In an effort to reduce the effects of global warming - which raises the temperature of the planet due to carbon emissions - researchers at Tel Aviv University in Israel have developed a way to grow a forest in the Aravah Desert.
China is making its presence felt in the space industry with the launching in November of its first spacecraft capable of docking with a module that was earlier put into the orbit.
Watch out! Consuming large amounts of soda may not be advantageous to the health because of four hazardous ingredients.
A group of college undergraduates from the Johns Hopkins University has developed yeast - an ingredient which helps bread rise - that has been tweaked to contain vitamins, called VitaYeast.
Who would have thought that just by having cataract surgery, patients with Alzheimer's would not only improve their vision, but also their lives?
A rare type of white wombat rescued in Ceduna, Australia was able to recover and regain its health back. The baby wombat was found a month ago near the town. He was alone and in a very poor condition – exhausted, dehydrated, and almost dying.
At first glance, German-based start-up Changers offers nothing new. Solar powered chargers have been on the market before but Changers offers more than a green way to charge up your electronic devices. It wants you and your friends to join the greenest social network on the internet to date.
The Dragon capsule, a prototype passenger spaceship developed by Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), is set for a practice cargo run to the International Space Station in December. The capsule will carry food, water and other station supplies
With knee-deep floodwaters enveloping Bangkok, high tides from the sea are pushing the Chao Phraya River's level in the central city to as high as 2.6 metres above mean sea level, above a 2.5-metre concrete floodwall, the chief of the Thail Navy's Hydrographic Department said Wednesday.
Tons of wreckage from the March 11 Japanese tsunami are reported heading across the Pacific Ocean toward North America.
The lineage of the coelacanth, an example of a “living fossil,” was thought to have died out million of years ago. The coelacanth belongs to a group called lobe-finned fishes which were very common back in the Devonian, and its relatives was said to have evolved into the four limbs of the tetrapods, which include us mammals.
Some sceptics may view hypnosis as a hoax, but a multidisciplinary group of researchers may have found proof that there is such a thing.
Research by carbon analytics firm RepuTex showed that the proposed carbon tax will cost the Standard & Poor's ASX 200 firms $18.7 billion in the decade 2013 through 2022.
NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft has observed strange hollows with reflective walls and peculiar depressions that range in size from 60 feet to over a mile across and 60 to 120 feet deep. What's even more peculiar is that NASA scientists are stumped as to how these hollows got there.
