Genetics Influence Coffee and Tea Preferences
Recent research reveals that genetics play a significant role in determining whether individuals prefer coffee or tea. Specific bitter taste receptor genes influence how people...
These gluten-free chocolate chip cookies have been my go-to cookie recipe for over ten years. They are crispy on the outside and soft, gooey and chewy on the inside.
The speed at which digital device usage has spread is phenomenal. Many of us are spending hours of our time each day using these devices – usually looking at screens. I’m referring to things like phones, computers, tablets, TVs, virtual reality headsets and smart watches.
There is a certain cosmic joke to the fact that we begin our spiritual journey often wishing to uncover a “true” self—some sort of finally decided, static being. The deep irony is that when we move past our individual wounding, we discover that we are not just one thing: we are a multitude of selves.
When the Flint water crisis took place in 2014 and 2015, one of my graduate nursing students decided to get involved.
A new soy-based adhesive made from food components is even stronger than Gorilla Glue on wood, researchers say. On aluminum, it’s about the same.
For most infections, the long-standing advice is to take a full course of antibiotics.

Belly fat affects the odds of women surviving kidney cancer but not men, a new study shows.
How farming companies are using a carbon rich material to enhance soils and purify waste water.

Maybe it’s a bride standing in a hot chapel, or an exhausted runner after a race. It could be someone watching a medical procedure on television or a donor at a blood drive.

You vacuum it, sweep it and wipe it off your furniture. But do you know what it actually is – and how it may affect your health?

You might feel bad about having a less-than-manicured lawn, but it’s great for bees and other pollinators.

A vasectomy, or male sterilization, is a very effective, relatively simple option for permanent birth control.

The benefits of exercise may differ depending on the time of day when you work out, a new study in mice suggests.
Psychic or not, we all need to energize and balance our energy centers each day. The following exercises can be carried out every morning and throughout the day as needed. They will energise the body, pinpoints imbalanced areas, and enable us to attend to our own well-being.

I heard a local story of a man who, in his excitement to kill a rattlesnake, used the only thing he had available ? his thermos bottle.

It seems like every day a new study is published that links the bacteria in the gut to a specific disease or health condition.

To sleep or to snooze? You probably know the answer, but you don’t prefer it. Most of us probably use the snooze function on our alarm clocks at some point in our lives.

As a plant biologist I have spent a long time interested in what makes plants salt tolerant. Some plants can grow and thrive in very salty soils, saltier than the sea, while others (like most of our staple crops) will fail to flourish.

As driverless cars become more capable and more common, they will change people’s travel habits not only around their own communities but across much larger distances.

The abortion debate is at the center of U.S. political dialogue. Voices from both sides flood social media feeds, newspapers, radio and television programs.

The Kakadu Plum fruiting season in the Top End in Australia is just finishing. Over one weekend, I was able to find a few fruits on the ground beneath some trees in the Eucalypt woodland near Darwin.