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According to a new report by climatologists, global warming will get much worse in the future. Other researchers, who are looking at frozen mud cores to try to understand just how bad it got in the past, confirm this conclusion.

In LiveScience.com, Seth Borenstein quotes climate researcher Jerry Mahlman, who looked at the first 1,600 pages of the four-part report, which was written by more than 600 scientists, reviewed by another 600 scientists and then edited by officials from over 150 countries, as saying, “The evidence?is compelling?The smoking gun is definitely lying on the table as we speak.”

Borenstein quotes his co-author Andrew Weaver as saying, “This isn’t a smoking gun; climate is a battalion of intergalactic smoking missiles.”
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By now, most of us have heard about the health benefits of red wine, which contains a heart-healthy substance called resveratrol. Red wine is wine made from grapes with the skins left on–in white wine, the skins are removed before the grapes are pressed. Now it’s been discovered that white wine has the same benefits as red, so you can pick the kind YOU like best.

In LiveScience.com, Steven Reinberg quotes researcher Johan Auwerx as saying, "The compound resveratrol, found in the skin of red grapes and cranberries, [is] known to be involved in lifespan extension."
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Scientists are working hard to learn the secrets of bird flu?before it takes us by surprise. But the virus could enter the population from the scientists themselves, if we aren?t careful. For instance, a lab in Texas recently almost leaked the deadly bird flu virus out into the environment.

Last April, a researcher at a lab at the University of Texas in Austin who was doing experiments mixing human and bird flu viruses, has an accident involving a centrifuge that caused a cap to come off a test tube, which could have spilled a human flu virus which had been modified to carry a gene from H5N1 bird flu.
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We recently wrote about how chicken soup REALLY IS good for cold symptoms. Now it turns out that drinking coffee is a good way to prevent yourself from getting more serious diseases.

Moderate consumption of coffee is being shown to have generally positive and protective effects on the emergence of disease conditions. Food Technology magazine reports that recent studies of coffee in combination with reviews of research gathered over the past 30 years reveal that consumption improves glucose regulation and lowers the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
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