Did your dad like to take cold showers? Or perhaps he was a ski buff, or an open-water swimmer.
It's too late now, but you very might well wish that your paternal progenitor had a fondness for cold temperatures. A new study published Monday in Nature Medicine shows that mice exposed to cold temperatures sire offspring that are both slimmer and healthier on high-fat diets than those whose fathers were kept warm.
Freezing Fathers Fight Fat
Chilling mice to see ...read more
The past few weeks have featured a few stories about how Albert Einstein’s theories, or the ideas underpinning them, have all been confirmed to a new degree of accuracy. That’s usually the case: Scientists try to disprove Einstein, and Einstein always wins.
But that’s not to say the man was infallible. He was human, just like the rest of us, and did make some mistakes. Here’s a few of them.
1) The cosmological consta ...read more
Bright pink 1.1-billion-year-old molecules from deep beneath the Sahara desert are now the oldest biological colors that scientists have discovered so far, and could shed light on why complex, multicellular life took so long to evolve on Earth.
This discovery "really came as a fluke," said study senior author Jochen Brocks, a paleobiogeochemist at the Australian National University in Canberra. "About 10 years ago, a petroleum company looking for oil in the Sahara was exploring the black ...read more
Hot flashes — sudden rushes of overwhelming warmth that heat up the body like a roaring furnace – plague millions of women, and some men. Now scientists find a single type of brain cell is responsible for setting off these heat bombs in mice. The discovery may lead to better treatments for keeping the body’s thermostat at a pleasant temperature.
Currently, the go-to remedy for hot flashes is estrogen replacement therapy to compensate for ...read more
In the second century, the Greco-Roman writer Oppian described men in rowboats thrusting harpoons into a “sea monster,� which is then roped and towed to shore.
At the time, the Romans had a successful fishing industry in the Strait of Gibraltar, the western waterway to the Mediterranean world. Historians sometimes say Roman fishing at this bottleneck included whaling, but other than Oppian’s poem and other indirect clues, there was no e ...read more
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