Experts have warned that driving in a convertible can be bad for your ears.

So no more convertibles! picked by Ankabout 2 months ago

Imagine awaking to a strong sense of a 'presence', pressure on your chest, intense fear and hallucinations, but being incapable of moving a muscle. picked by Bornbad 2 months ago

Caffeine
This is why the world produces more than 16 billion pounds of coffee beans per year. It's actually an alkaloid plant toxin (like nicotine and cocaine), a bug killer that stimulates us by blocking neuroreceptors for the sleep chemical adenosine. The result: you, awake. picked by Bornbad 2 months ago

The Digest editor has invited some of the world's leading psychologists to look inwards and share, in 150 words, one nagging thing they still don't understand about themselves. Their responses are by turns candid, witty and thought-provoking. Here's what they had to say: picked by Bornbad 2 months ago

Vaccine works similar to vaccines for microorganisms, training your body to view cocaine as a bad invader.

* Thirty-eight percent produced anti-cocaine antibodies picked by tgkprog 2 months ago

A little earlier than expected. Hopefully the ugly vaccination stories that I've been reading lately don't show their face for this guy. picked by Pazez 2 months ago

Stephanie Smith, a children’s dance instructor, thought she had a stomach virus. The aches and cramping were tolerable that first day, and she finished her classes. Follow the secretive chain of events bringing E. coli into her life. Contemporary carnivores read at your own risk... picked by Bornbad 2 months ago

Study: Many who ate too many sweets were arrested for violence by age 34. picked by Bornbad 2 months ago

Van Gogh was comforted and inspired by the night, as a new show in Amsterdam highlights. But was this fascination a symptom of mental disorder? picked by chez 2 months ago

Should we abandon this enigmatic concept of invisible matter that exerts gravitational attraction but is otherwise undetectable? Could it be that we simply do not understand the long-range behavior of gravity? picked by bernardblack 2 months ago

Menstruation is often seen as embarrassing or disgusting and is rarely discussed. But some feminists are determined to break this taboo picked by suebe 2 months ago

Workers at an Arizona cryonics facility allegedly mutilated the frozen head of baseball legend Ted Williams - even using it for a bizarre batting practice picked by nateebiinature 2 months ago

Steel or titanium is great for helping bones to repair but they have to be removed once the repair is completed. A new metallic glass mixture of o 60% magnesium, 35% zinc and 5% calcium has been created in Switzerland that will perform like steel but will dissolve instead of having to be surgically removed. picked by 2manyusernames 2 months ago

The sunshine, rain, fog and snow of our home planet are so familiar that we find it next to impossible to imagine a different atmosphere and other forms of precipitation. Yet exoplanet COROT-7b's atmosphere is made up of the ingredients of rocks, and when a front moves in, pebbles condense out of the air and rain into lakes of molten lava below. picked by equinox 2 months ago

Monique Zimmerman-Stein has been nearly blind for the last two years from Stickler syndrome, a rare genetic disorder. She recently decided to forgo her own treatment to save funds to treat her two daughters, who also suffer from the condition, reports Lane DeGregory of the St. Petersburg Times. picked by nateebiinature 2 months ago

The airport has partnered with a private company to provide the offsets. But carbon offsets for travel are unregulated, so will patrons get what they pay for? picked by nateebiinature 2 months ago

Scientists hunting for amino acids in the giant dust cloud at the center of the Milky Way were surprised to discover ethyl formate, a chemical that smells like rum and gives raspberries their unique taste. picked by Bingo 2 months ago

Even as a "threadhead", I never understood just how these machines make stitches. Here is an article with VERY good animations of how it happens! picked by bcgrote 2 months ago

This is just going to be a light-hearted thread about things that science can't explain. picked by Bornbad 2 months ago

In the largest study of its kind, more than 4000 prostate cancer patients were tracked. Findings from the study show that aggressive cancer requiring surgery has a certain protein indicator. More than 60% of the patients lacked the indicator and could be treated with careful monitoring. picked by bernardblack 2 months ago

Beat the defenseless into the hopeless. picked by Bornbad 2 months ago

Meet Buttkiss, the black pacu who has eaten more than 175,000 fish during his residence in Queens. picked by suebe 2 months ago

Since man first touched the moon and brought pieces of it back to Earth, scientists have thought that the lunar surface was bone dry. But new observations from three different spacecraft have put this notion to rest with what has been called "unambiguous evidence" of water across the surface of the moon. picked by Bornbad 2 months ago

Researchers say they have found a small but statistically significant increase in the number of patients who die each year when junior doctors start work. picked by suckersklub 2 months ago

Do you ever wonder why dogs sniff each other’s butts? Whether it is a new acquaintance or old one, they meet up and immediately run to the rear. Most people believe it is their way of saying “hello.“ However, this is a myth. Dogs sniff each other’s butts for a much deeper reason - to get to know one another. picked by Bornbad 2 months ago