On:

Metabolic syndrome is like a ticking time bomb inside your body that goes off as you get older, producing a group of disorders that includes insulin resistance (which leads to weight gain), heart disease and high “bad” cholesterol levels. It is estimated that more than 47 million Americans, or nearly 25%, have it. Doctors now know that one of the causes is not being breast fed for long enough?or at all. Now they think that NOT USING your breasts for feeding your child may lead to breast cancer. It turns out that baby bottles?especially plastic ones?were a bad idea for MANY reasons.
read more

On:

We recently talked about time travel and parallel universes on Dreamland with Fred Alan Wolf. Japanese scientists report that they think it will soon be possible to create new, “baby universes” inside their labs. What will happen to these universes over time is anybody’s guess, because, once they are created, there will no longer be any way to detect them. Would they eventually expand into whole and complete universes like our own? It’s possible, Which leads to the question, where did WE come from?
read more

On:

You may have struggled with mathematics classes in high school and college, but according to researchers, math was no problem for you when you were an infant.

US researchers first discovered this in 1992, but their findings have been hotly debated in math circles ever since. Now new research shows that infants as young as six months know when an arithmetic solution is wrong.
read more

On:

It may make them less nutritious. A little-known valley in northern Sweden reveals that the higher temperatures produced by global warming may lead to significant changes in plant nutrients. And the palm trees in Florida are already suffering from rising water levels.

Will global warming mean that our vegetables contain fewer nutrients? Geoscientists who have been studying the plants growing in the Swedish valley of K

NOTE: This news story, previously published on our old site, will have any links removed.read more