587 How Japan has almost eradicated gun crime
Japan has one of the lowest rates of gun crime in the world. In 2014 there were just six gun deaths, compared to 33,599 in the US. What is the secret? If you want to buy a gun in Japan you need...
586 Does Cough Syrup Really Work? Eating Chocolate And 3 Other Natural Remedies To Stop Coughing
There is very little evidence cough syrup is effective at treating coughs. In one review, 15 out of 19 studies analyzed showed no benefit, or the results were conflicting. Other reviews have simil...
585 Dementia rates ‘higher near busy roads
As many as 11% of dementia cases in people living within 50m of a major road could be down to traffic, the study suggests. The researchers, who followed nearly 2m people in Canada over 11 years...
584 Why These 5 Ancient Eats Are New Superfoods
When it comes to health food, everything old is new again. And experts say that can be a good thing: "What is long familiar to humans implies what we’re adapted to," says David Katz, MD, director ...
583 What is brain fog?
You can't find your keys. You forgot the new neighbor's name. You don't remember why you went upstairs or what you were planning to make for dinner. If you're in your 20s or 30s, you chalk up y...
582 What skills should everyone have by age 18?
Growing up has never been easy. Even though the past seems like a simpler time in retrospect, our world is complex and it always has been. But there is one thing from the past that made growing up...
581 5 Images That Will Instantly Make You Feel Calm
In an ideal world, you’d escape to a yoga class or slip into a warm bath to melt away your stress. But when that’s just not doable, there are quicker ways to get zen, stat—like simply gazing at im...
580 Seasonal Affective Disorder: Happiness Is Actually Linked To Sunshine, Study Finds
Does sunshine actually make you happy? A recent study from Brigham Young University has revealed that the amount of time between sunrise and sunset influences virtually everyone's mood — even more...
579 Mountains or beaches? What your choice says about you
Given the option of spending time on a beach or in the mountains, which would you choose? Researchers have determined that your preference is related to how outgoing you are. In a series of fiv...
578 3 Reasons Why Non-Smokers Get Lung Cancer
November is lung cancer awareness month, a time to learn about one of the most common and deadly forms of cancer. Although the disease is often associated with smoking, according to the American C...
577 University opens without any teachers
A university without any teachers has opened in California this month. It's called 42 The US college, a branch of an institution in France with the same name, will train about a thousand stude...
576 Treating Pain Without Drugs
A new federal report revealed that the majority of U.S. adults (more than 54 percent) had some type of musculoskeletal pain disorder such as back, joint or neck pain in 2012 (the latest year f...
575 One of the Most Powerful Ways to Boost Your Brainpower Starts With This Simple Weekend Chore
Cleaning out your closet can actually make you smarter by eliminating decision fatigue. We’re forced to make hundreds of small decisions daily that for the most part we take for granted: Do ...
574 6 ways energy drinks can hurt your body
The concept seems relatively innocuous. Get a burst of energy by drinking something out of a colorful can that looks an awful lot like a soda. But energy drinks have a lot more going on under that...
573 Japanese Food Can Help You Live Longer: What Are The Health-Boosting Ingredients?
Experts believe that Japanese food can help you have a healthy life, and according to the London-based nutritionist Cassandra Barns, it can help in getting a long life. Japanese diet that inclu...
572 6 Strange Effects Of Stress Including Vivid Dreams, Hair Loss, Gallows Humor
An insatiable appetite, profuse sweating, a racing heart and high blood pressure — these are just a few of the well-known physical manifestations of stress in our everyday lives. Beyond those obvi...
571 4 Worst Things To Order When You Go Out For Sushi
Going out for sushi seems like a pretty good choice when your other options are burgers or pizza. But is it really a clean option, period? As with so many of life's biggest questions, the answe...
570 Alternative medicine is now a $30 billion industry. But does it work?
Alternative medicine is big business in the U.S. A 2016 report found that Americans spent more than $30 billion on alternative therapies in 2012. That includes treatments such as homeopathy and ...
569 Prescribing holidays ‘could help fight infections’
Scientists are investigating whether prescribing holidays, music or a change of scene might boost our immune system and help us to fight off disease. In tests on mice, they discovered that spru...
568 Doraemon under attack as a bad influence on children in India, Pakistan
Beloved Japanese manga character Doraemon might seem to be an unlikely source of serious controversy. But in India and Pakistan, the chubby blue robotic cat has become a target of bitter critic...
567 Move to this small Canadian town, get a job and 2 acres
Cape Breton is an island on the northeastern tip of Nova Scotia. The island has only around 135,000 residents, and the numbers keep dropping. Cape Breton is home to many towns including tiny Wh...
566 Why Danish students are paid to go to college
Every Danish student receives about $900 (5,839 Danish krones) per month under a scheme known as SU (Statens Uddannelsesstøtte). The generous financial support does not have to be paid back even i...
565 Zuckerberg and Chan aim to tackle all disease by 2100
Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have pledged $3bn (£2.3bn) to fund medical research over the next decade. At a press conference in San Francisco, they said their ...
564 5 Things You Should Avoid On An Empty Stomach
You can do a lot of things on an empty stomach. Sleep, for example, is best experienced on an empty stomach. Going to bed on a full stomach can prompt the body to store those extra calories as fat...
563 9 skills they don’t teach in school (but should)
In Michigan, legislators are mulling over a plan intended to increase the number of CPR-trained members in their community by requiring that students learn the lifesaving skill before they graduat...
562 What’s the best work schedule for your age?
Scientists have long known that you have an internal biological clock that regulates various physical, mental and behavioral changes your body experiences over a 24-hour cycle, called circadian rh...
561 Why do kids go to school? Americans are divided on the answer, a new poll shows.
What is school for? A new poll released Monday night shows that Americans are divided on the issue. And in an era when public education has been under attack, most public school parents still thin...
560 Does ‘Young Blood’ Reverse Aging? 5 Things To Know About Peter Thiel’s Parabiosis
Thiel, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who was the first outside investor in Facebook, has poured millions of dollars into anti-aging startups and therapies, and has argued that the rest of society ...
559 Health benefits of drinking hot cocoa
Drinkable chocolate has been used for years to treat ailments and maladies. When chocolate made its way to France in the 17th century, it was used "to fight against fits of anger and bad moods.” ...
558 Satellite images used to predict poverty
There's little reliable data on local incomes in developing countries, which hampers efforts to tackle the problem. A team from Stanford University were able to train a computer system to ident...
557 Self-driving buses are roaming the streets of Helsinki
Two self-driving minibuses began plying the roads of Helsinki this week -- in real traffic. The small electric buses were developed by a French company EasyMile and can transport up to nine passen...
556 16 simple ways to reduce plastic waste
Plastic is found in virtually everything these days. Your food and hygiene products are packaged in it. Your car, phone and computer are made from it. And you might even chew on it daily in the f...
555 Parents who insist on vegan diet for children may risk jail in Italy
If parliamentarian Elvira Savino has her way, Italian parents who insist on a vegan diet for their children will risk up to four years in jail. Savino, from the conservative Forza Italia party,...
554 Will this be the happiest place in the world?
Can the state engineer a happy country? The United Arab Emirates thinks so. Last week, the country’s government announced it had selected 60 “chief happiness and positivity officers” to travel ...
553 Workplace Essentials For Better Health: 8 Things You Need
Chances are you spend most of your day at a desk job. While you avoid certain health hazards by not working in manual labor, sitting in front of a computer screen for at least eight hours a day is...
552 San Francisco Just Issued The Country’s Broadest Ban On Styrofoam
“This stuff is an environmental and public health pollutant, and we have to reduce its use.” San Francisco just took a major step to save the environment. The city’s Board of Supervisors una...
551 The reasons why exhaustion and burnout are so common
More and more people are suffering ‘burnout’ – but is this the fault of modern life or is physical, mental and spiritual exhaustion a far older condition? According to one argument, our brains...
550 Website Introducing “sento” Public Baths Gains Traction
A website providing information about "sento" public bathhouses mainly in the Tokyo metropolitan area is proving popular despite the decline in such communal baths, a major part of Japanese cult...
549 What Are The Best Ways To Prevent Cancer?
This question originally appeared on Quora. Answer by David Agus, M.D., USC Professor of Medicine and Engineering. Here are 8 simple ways to help your body prevent the ravages of cancer: 1. Ge...
548 Americans Spend Half Of Their Food Budgets At Restaurants
Unless you have a Blue Apron subscription, the idea of having regular, home-cooked meals is probably more nostalgic than realistic. It’s tough to get motivated to pack a lunch every day when you w...