Study: The Pain of High Heels, Explained at Last
Jupiterimages
(July 15) -- High heels can be elegant, bold or gaudy statements of a personal fashion ethic. They can also be a severe source of discomfort, especially for the many women who wear them on a regular...
Not Just the Slick: Oil Plume Found Below Gulf's Surface
NIUST, NOAA
(May 14) -- Since the Gulf of Mexico oil spill began three weeks ago, most eyes and cameras have been focused on the widening, orange slick. But now, as experts argue that the flow rate could far...
Rare Meteorites Challenge Theories on Origins of Life
Courtesy Science / AAAS
(May 6) -- Earth is constantly being showered with extraterrestrial rocks and dust. The vast majority of these fragments of asteroids and comets are far too small to do any damage -- but they can...
Scientists Discover New Proof of the Neanderthal Within Us
Max Planck Institute / EVA
(May 6) -- It turns out there really is a little caveman in a lot of us. An international team of scientists has for the first time decoded the complete Neanderthal genome, and the results, to be...
Already Imperiled Bluefin Tuna Threatened by Spill
(April 30) -- The massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico could not have happened at a worse time, or in a worse spot, for the Atlantic bluefin tuna. More than 600 species are considered to be at...
Somali Pirates Flee Al-Qaida Affiliates, Hostages in Tow
AP
(April 27) -- With the fate of a frail country and the lives of hundreds of innocent hostages on the line, two warring Islamic groups and a band of 21st century pirates are battling for control of a...
Scientists Gain Insights on Life-Extending Diet
MCT
(April 15) -- The perils of overeating are no secret. Scientists, writers, activists and politicians have been warning the public for years that carrying excess weight increases your risk of heart...
New Microdevice Captures Rare Cancer Cells
Massachusetts General Hospital
(March 31) -- Cancer patients could soon benefit from a new screening device that can pick out and analyze rare tumor cells from standard blood samples, according to a report today in Science...
Can Toads Predict Earthquakes?
ZUMA Press
(March 30) -- For thousands of years, people have been speculating that animals can foresee natural disasters. Birds, snakes, chickens, dogs and cows have all been reported to have this seemingly...
Ancient Bone Could Be New Species of Human
Bence Viola
(March 24) -- Ancient humans, Neanderthals and the now-famous hobbits may have had another human-like neighbor about 40,000 years ago. Thanks to a bone fragment discovered in Siberia's Altai...
Last Supper Depictions Track Super-Sizing's Rise
AP
(March 23) -- The Last Supper of Jesus Christ has to be one of the most analyzed meals in history, but surely no one has looked at it like this before. Two academic brothers -- one an expert on...
More Clues Found in Mystery of Adolescent Brain
Parenting.com
(March 18) -- Any parent or middle-school teacher could tell you that adolescents often have, shall we say, a resistance to learning. In fact, behavioral scientists have shown that certain cognitive...
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