​Nicky Ashwell was born without her right hand, but that’s never held her back. By Victoria Turk. (Oct. 25, 2016)

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Submitted on November 19th 2016 by AdelleChattre with 2 comments

A man with HIV who says he had ritual sex with 104 women and girls faces up to five years in jail, if convicted. But some ask why the children's parents are not in the dock too.

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Submitted on November 17th 2016 by jcscher

When the cockpit recorder transcript from Air France Flight 447 was leaked to the public in 2011, many startling details emerged. The plane, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on June 1, 2009, killing all 228 people on board, had been under the control of pilots who were communicating poorly and not realizing one another’s mistakes. The plane’s speed slowed to dangerous levels, activating the stall alarm—the one, in the words of Popular Mechanics, “designed to be impossible to ignore.” It blared the word “Stall!” 75 times. Everyone present ignored it. Within four minutes, the plane had hit the water.

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Submitted on November 19th 2016 by distant

When Tal Golesworthy was told he was at risk of his aorta bursting, he wasn’t impressed with the surgery on offer – so he came up with his own idea.

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Submitted on November 17th 2016 by gladsdotter

A new stick-on wearable sensor uses the symphony of internal rumblings, whooshing, gurglings, and cracklings to help doctors diagnose different conditions. And this souped-up, miniaturized stethoscope could one day be a way for clinicians to continuously monitor patients outside of the clinic. So far it’s been tested on chicken breasts and a very small group of people. This wearable, smaller than a penny, can hear the beat of your heart, the sound of your voice, and even the whirr of an implantable heart pump, according to a paper published today in the journal Science Advances.

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Submitted on November 19th 2016 by zyery

We laugh about humans looking like their pets, but people also tend to look like their partners. Here's the science behind the phenomenon of dating your look-alike.

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Submitted on November 20th 2016 by gladsdotter

About 800,000 children under age 5 die each year from diarrhea, pneumonia, and other common infections caused by unsafe water and sanitation. So how could a perfume company help?

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Submitted on November 19th 2016 by rti9

Even though statewide levels of vaccinations remain high, public health officials are increasingly worried about the geographic areas where parents are choosing not to vaccinate their children. By Anna Casey.

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Submitted on November 16th 2016 by AdelleChattre with 1 comments

Homeopathy is one of the most enduring forms of snake oil available to consumers; it has been duping people since 1814. But the United States government only recently decided to clamp down on these bogus treatments, with a new policy from the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC’s policy statement explains that the agency will now ask that the makers of homeopathic drugs present reliable scientific evidence for their health claims if they want to sell them to consumers on the US market.

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Submitted on November 20th 2016 by aj0690

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the US, every year about two million people become infected with bacteria that are resistant to anything we can throw at them and of those, at least 23,000 die. Now the European equivalent to the CDC, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has just reported on how well the EU is doing in the battle to keep deadly bugs at bay. And the news isn't great.

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Submitted on November 20th 2016 by doodlegirl

The Upshot’s health policy columnists discuss the options before Congress: both the policies and the political choices.

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Submitted on November 21st 2016 by xXwraithXx

Thank you, science.

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Submitted on November 19th 2016 by kxh

A psychiatrist used religion to ply patients for sex, and the state let him quietly retire. By Johnny Edwards.

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Submitted on November 18th 2016 by AdelleChattre

As legions of warriors and prisoners can attest, Stoicism is not grim resolve but a way to wrest happiness from adversity. By Lary Wallace.

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Submitted on November 19th 2016 by AdelleChattre

“For our computers, every unit of information is created equal — it has a size, but there’s no qualitative difference. In our brain memories, that’s not true at all.”

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Submitted on November 21st 2016 by gladsdotter

Science is showing that how you feel isn’t just about what you eat, or do, or think. It’s about what you believe. By Erik Vance. Photographs and Videos by Erika Larsen.

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Submitted on November 19th 2016 by gladsdotter

Whether you're a clean freak or a slob, your workspace may reveal a lot about your personality

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Submitted on November 16th 2016 by Appaloosa

Scientists have discovered an antibody produced by an HIV-positive patient that neutralises 98 percent of all HIV strains tested - including most of the strains that are resistant to other antibodies of the same class. Due to HIV’s ability to rapidly respond to the body’s immune defences, an antibody that can block a wide range of strains has been very hard to come by. But now that we’ve found one, it could form the basis of a new vaccine against the virus.

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Submitted on November 18th 2016 by aj0690

Controversial clinical trial would have tried to revive brain-dead accident victims. By Priyanka PullaNov.

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Submitted on November 18th 2016 by AdelleChattre

We consulted a psychiatrist about how to stand in your truth without totally giving up on that. By Erin Hanafy.

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Submitted on November 16th 2016 by AdelleChattre