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Exercising Only One Day a Week Still Pays Off
Too Busy for Daily
Workouts? That's OK
NEW STUDY
Jan 10, 2017 10:27 AM CST

Too Busy for Daily Workouts? That's OK

Study finds that 'weekend warriors' still reap benefits

(Newser) - Hate having to drag yourself to the gym after work? A new JAMA study suggests people who exercise only on the weekend enjoy much of the same benefits as weekday gym-goers. Researchers at Loughborough University in the UK who reviewed data on more than 63,500 mostly white adults found...

Mothers Tend to Hold Babies on the Left
'Ancient'
Signal Dictates
Where Mom
Holds Baby
new study
Jan 10, 2017 8:14 AM CST

'Ancient' Signal Dictates Where Mom Holds Baby

'Positional bias' is common among humans and wild animals

(Newser) - It's long been observed that mothers tend to cradle their infants on their left side, and this has long been at least informally attributed to handedness (so that right-handed mothers have the right hand free). Now researchers report in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution that "positional bias"...

Filling a Cavity May Never Be the Same

Alzheimer's drug tideglusib gets them to fill themselves

(Newser) - A novel therapy holds real promise in changing the way dentists treat your cavities—they'd get the cavities to fill themselves. As the Guardian reports, researchers at King's College London found that they could stimulate stem cells within the teeth to regenerate through a relatively simple approach: They...

Our Moon May Have Been Created From 'Moonlets'

A series of cosmic collisions may have spawned the smaller moonlets

(Newser) - A series of cosmic collisions may have spawned multiple moonlets that morphed into the one big moon we know today, the AP reports. Rather than one giant impact that knocked off part of early Earth and created the moon, a number of smaller collisions may have produced lots of mini-moons,...

A Blood Test Predicts How Well You're Going to Age

What secrets lurk within?

(Newser) - Every time the oldest people in the world celebrate a birthday, they're inevitably asked their secret to aging. Some cite alcohol, others the lack of it; some how much they sleep, others how little; many talk about just relaxing , and almost all pay homage to having good genes. Now...

Lost City Found: 5 Most Incredible Discoveries of the Week

Man says he followed hunch, found lost city

(Newser) - A lost city and a new organ make this week's list of interesting discoveries:
  • Dinosaur Eggs Hatched in Potentially Troublesome Way : A Florida State University professor thinks he's solved one of the "greatest riddles" about non-avian dinosaurs: Did their eggs incubate slowly like those of lizards, or
...

Mystery Cosmic Waves Traced to Distant Galaxy

Source is a 'faint and puny galaxy'

(Newser) - Astronomers searching for the origins of a mysterious blast of radio waves have solved the puzzle: a tiny galaxy billions of light years from Earth, Space reports. So-called FRBs (fast radio bursts) twinkle in the sky for only a millisecond, yet they radiate more energy than the sun ever could...

Live Near Heavy Traffic? You Have Higher Dementia Risk

Study finds that those who live near major roads are more likely to develop dementia

(Newser) - Those who live near a high-traffic area may be at a higher risk of developing dementia, a new study out of Canada finds. Researchers looked at the records of more than 6.5 million Ontario residents ages 20 to 85 between 2001 and 2012, and found that within that group...

Fossil Fills in Big Blank About the Mysterious 'Ghost Shark'

It belongs to an early chimaera, not a shark

(Newser) - The chimaera, or so-called "ghost shark," is an elusive deep-water fish that has fascinated biologists for more than a century. Like its relative the shark, however, it's made of cartilage and thus rarely fossilizes, so little is known about its evolutionary past, reports Live Science . Now the...

Man Follows Hunch, Says He Has Uncovered Lost City

13th-century Trellech was once Wales' largest city

(Newser) - Stuart Wilson says people thought he was crazy when he gambled $39,000—his life savings—on a 4.6-acre field in Wales. Having heard a farmer's story about moles digging up bits of pottery on the land, the amateur archaeologist tells the Guardian he had a hunch that...

Scientists Discover New Organ Inside the Human Body

It's our 79th

(Newser) - Unprepared kids who want to get out of taking a test in 2017 can just tell the teacher their mesentery hurts. Irish researchers have classified a new organ in the human body while proving "the anatomic description that had been laid down over 100 years of anatomy was incorrect,...

Dinosaur Eggs Hatched in Potentially Troublesome Way

Non-avian dino eggs hatched slowly, over as many as 6 months, study finds

(Newser) - A Florida State University professor thinks he's solved one of the "greatest riddles" about non-avian dinosaurs: Did their eggs incubate slowly like those of lizards, or quickly like those of birds? The former, found Gregory Erickson and his team, and they came to their conclusion by studying embryonic...

Don't Blink: 5 Most Incredible Discoveries of the Week

Including a weird new bee that looks like an ant

(Newser) - An insight about eye contact and a study that might interest moms-to-be were among the notable discoveries of the week:
  • Scientists Have a Theory on Why You Break Eye Contact : Researchers in Japan suggest there's a surprising neurological reason why people avert their gaze during conversation, and it has
...

Device Can Detect 17 Diseases by Our Breath
Device Can Detect
17 Diseases by
Our Breath
study says
Dec 29, 2016 3:41 PM CST

Device Can Detect 17 Diseases by Our Breath

Including Parkinson's and multiple cancers

(Newser) - What if detecting cancer was as easy as breathing in and out? According to a study published last week in American Chemical Society Nano , it pretty much is. Scientist Hossam Haick has been working on his "electronic nose" for years, the Outline reports, and this new study shows the...

&#39;Friendship Bench&#39; Chats Can Ease Depression
Low-Cost Remedy Eases
Symptoms of Mental Illness
new study
Dec 28, 2016 9:18 AM CST

Low-Cost Remedy Eases Symptoms of Mental Illness

They're called 'Friendship Bench' chats

(Newser) - It's a simple idea: bring depression sufferers together with "grandmothers" for a good heart-to-heart talk on a park bench. But what researchers learned from the "friendship bench" study could change the lives of millions in sub-Saharan Africa who suffer from common mental disorders where services are scarce....

New Species Looks Like Ant, Bee Had a Baby

9 new species of desert bee revealed in Zootaxa study

(Newser) - If an ant and a bee had a baby, it would probably look a lot like the male Perdita prodigiosa, one of nine new species of desert bee mesmerizing researchers. All of the newly discovered bees come from the Perdita group of more than 700 species and subspecies of bees...

Another Hangover to Worry About
Another Hangover
to Worry About
NEW STUDY
Dec 28, 2016 6:03 AM CST

Another Hangover to Worry About

'Emotional hangovers' can shape future memories, study shows

(Newser) - With more holiday revelry looming, the last thing we need to worry about is another type of hangover. But odds are we've already experienced a phenomenom called "emotional hangover." That's the name neuroscientists have given to that heartsick feeling that trails painful experiences or the euphoria...

Scientists Have a Theory on Why You Break Eye Contact

Blame an overworked brain, suggests study

(Newser) - Researchers in Japan suggest there's a surprising neurological reason why people avert their gaze occasionally during conversation. Reporting in the journal Cognition , they write that eye contact actually "disrupts resources available to cognitive control processes during verb generation." In other words, when you need to come up...

Oldest Water: 5 Most Incredible Discoveries of the Week

Also: a case for having a female doctor

(Newser) - An ancient source of water and an intriguing find about how pregnancy affects the brain were among the discoveries making headlines this week:
  • World's Oldest Water Found in Canada : Scientists have discovered the oldest water ever found on Earth deep in a Canadian mine. The 2-billion-year-old oasis could help
...

Researchers: We Know the Stradivarius&#39; Secret
Researchers: We Know
the Stradivarius' Secret
study says
Dec 23, 2016 11:33 AM CST

Researchers: We Know the Stradivarius' Secret

One key to its sound appears to be an old mineral bath

(Newser) - For hundreds of years, violins by Antonio Stradivari have been considered the best in the world, some fetching millions of dollars. The only other instruments vying for the title were crafted by a man named Giuseppe Guarneri, who toiled away in his workshop in the same northern Italian city of...

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