While it sometimes seems like mosquitoes swarm humans simply to make our lives miserable, they actually ruin our evening strolls and barbecues because they’re hungry. A female mosquito needs to slurp up a belly full of blood to produce her clutch of eggs and her hunger hormones drive her to seek out bare arms and… Read More: Feeding Mosquitoes Diet Drugs Makes Them Stop Biting – Smithsonian.com »
Young woman buying fresh red peppers at supermarket. She’s picking peppers from the shelf.Getty Depression has many origins: genetic, triggered by a specific event or circumstance or lifestyle choices. But it is a disease of the brain, and researchers find that ensuring it receives the proper nutrients is a way to prevent and treat depression.… Read More: Healthy Food Makes You Happy: Research Shows A Healthy Diet… »
Do you gravitate towards people that will casually drop the word ‘superfluous’ into a sentence? Do you find those with endless streams of seemingly irrelevant knowledge intriguing? Well, there’s a reason why! And a scientific reason at that. Recent research from Western Sydney University to be published as an upcoming paper in the Journal of… Read More: Being Intelligent Makes You More Attractive, Says Science »
This is the moment a surfing champion proves his get up and go when he somehow gets back on his board after falling off — only to continue to ride the wave. Eleven-times former world champion Kelly Slater made his miraculous recovery to avoid a wipeout during a surf competition in Hawaii. The surfer fell… Read More: Surfing pro Kelly Slater makes miraculous save after falling off… »