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Video footage of police using pepper spray on peacefully protesting students at the University of California, Davis, on Nov. 18 has sparked national outrage. But the use of such brutal force against passive protesters isn’t as uncommon as you’d think.
Percentage drop in AIDS-related deaths worldwide since their peak in 2005. The number of new HIV infections also fell 21% since their peak in 1997, according to a new UNAIDS report [PDF]. In 2010, an estimated 1.8 million people died from AIDS, down from 2.2 million in 2005; in 2010, there were about 2.7 million [...]
Thin and normal-weight people may have a higher risk of dying soon after surgery than patients who are overweight, a new study finds.
In my house, bedtime stories are sacred. Rarely does something derail the nightly routine, although feverish kids have been known to be tucked in, sans story. But last week, my strep-throated 4-year-old awoke at 1 a.m. with this complaint: “You forgot to read me my bedtime story.”
Those info-streaming retinal displays from the Terminator movies may be closer to fact than fantasy, according to researchers at the University of Washington and Aalto University, in Finland, who are developing a computerized contact lens that could be used to display data — like emails and text messages — right in front of your eyes.
—CHARLA NASH, who received a full-face transplant earlier this year, after surviving a vicious attack by a chimp in 2009 that left her without a face or hands. Nash was permanently blinded in the attack, so she can't see her own face, and relies on others' feedback about her appearance. A little girl recently said [...]
Methamphetamine is widely believed to cause brain damage and cognitive impairment in users. But this claim may be wildly overblown, according to a new review of the research.
As millions of American travelers take to the airways this Thanksgiving, they will increasingly face the new generation of full-body scanners at airport security — including the kind that Europe just banned for reasons of “health and safety.”
Kasey Buckles’ kids are two years, two months and two weeks apart. The timing is significant because Buckles, an assistant professor of economics at the University of Notre Dame, has just officially determined that the ideal spacing between an older and younger sibling is at least, you guessed it, two years — at least when it [...]
Percentage of Americans age 12 or older who have hearing loss — defined as being unable to hear speech at 25 decibels or lower — in at least one ear, according to a recent study by researchers at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. About 13% of Americans have hearing loss in both ears. Aging and [...]
