You know that person in your class who can't seem to sit still? The one who always seems restless, tapping their pen, jostling their legs, and just fidgeting around? Maybe that person is even you - either way, it turns out that fidgeting can actually...
A new type of energy drink is taking energy boosting far beyond caffeine or other typical carb and sugar loaded products to fuel athletes for longer sustainable during exercise. A team of researchers led by Pete J. Cox of the University of Oxford in the UK, took a...
A team of researchers from VU University in Amsterdam aim to apply the findings from their most recent study to help children with cerebral palsy, and even improve the rehabilitation of adults suffering spinal cord injury, by analyzing the brain patterns involved as babies take their first steps. The...
Hereditary genes: we’ve all got them. From personality traits, to physical features, and even the susceptibility to catch certain diseases, everything that genetically makes up who we are as individuals was handed down from our parents. However, researchers around the world have begun to question...
Our ability to rationalize and make good decisions can be adversely impaired once a single hormone is produced when we experience hunger, according to a team of researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Findings showed that rats given the ghrelin hormone were...
Between the proliferation of campus coffee shops, flavored energy drinks, or even just a 5-hour energy shot, caffeine has a natural place in every medical student's heart. Though widely popular, it is probably not the best idea to dose up on caffeine in order to stay...
If you work in the medical field - and perhaps even for those who don't - it's very possible that you know of a doctor who has made a life-ending error. It’s honestly not that uncommon. You see, doctors are humans, and they make mistakes just...
Facebook has made a name for itself as the king of big-data aggregation, but they're also finding new and innovative ways to analyze that data. In a recent study, researchers at Facebook used a sample of 5.6 million parent-child pairs from English-speaking locales with occupations listed to examine...
