When practice won’t make perfect
If you attempted to learn the violin as a kid but never could get the hang of it, it might not be a personal ineptitude for music as you had […]
Category Archives: Medicine
Our gait dictated by laziness
Actually, it’s something more like efficiency than laziness, but whether we’re walking or running all comes down to energy conservation. Researchers at the Movement Lab at Ohio State University have […]
Bird flu research back on
A little over year ago, influenza researchers called a moratorium on their work involving H5N1, otherwise known as bird flu. Ordinarily, we can’t contract the disease from birds, so the […]
Take that, double helix
Sure, two strands of DNA are pretty impressive, but what about four strands? Scientists at Cambridge University found that not only does it exist, it exists in functioning human cells. […]
Probably the grossest treatment for diarrhea ever
When you’re dealing with a dirty opponent, sometimes you’ve got to fight dirty. Clostridium difficile, the bacteria that causes diarrhea, is definitely an opponent that hits below the belt, no […]
The threat lurking in… Brussels sprouts?
Kind of late warning, but doctors are concerned about all the reckless consumption of Brussels sprouts over the holidays, especially after a man overdosed on the little cabbages last Christmas. But […]
Really bad news for Rocky Balboa
Getting injured on the field is just part of the job description for professional athletes playing full-contact sports. Joints get pulled, ACLs get torn and skulls get rattled. But it […]
