Wash Your Hands For 20 Seconds: Physics Shows Why
Though hand-washing is proven effective in combating the spread of disease and infection, the physics behind it has rarely been studied. But in Physics of Fluids, by AIP…
Night shift work is linked to increased risk of heart problems
People who work night shifts are at increased risk of developing an irregular and often abnormally fast heart rhythm called atrial fibrillation (AF), according to research published in…
Metal Pollution: If It’s In The Air—And Our Iphones—It’ll End Up In Our Bones
In our increasingly industrialized world, what we produce “out there” has a direct impact on what happens in here, inside our bodies. A new study by Hebrew University…
New blood test improves prostate cancer screening
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden recently reported that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) could reduce overdiagnoses and thereby improve prostate cancer screening. Now, the same research group has…
Research shows that exposure to sexualised images on Instagram leads to greater body dissatisfaction
The research team studied 247 Italian women aged 19 to 32 who were recruited to this study that considered reactions to both Instagram imagery and the comments alongside…