Here’s what time of day you should exercise to most effectively prevent heart disease and stroke

Here’s what time of day you should exercise to most effectively prevent heart disease and stroke

Medical News Today | 
Although exercise is always generally good for health, a large new prospective study finds that one particular time of day may offer ...
aging process and environmental factors

Biological tipping point: At a certain point in life, environmental factors and age are more important to disease risk than DNA

Medical News Today | 
In 1952, Nobel-prize winner Dr. Peter Medawar put forward the hypothesis that aging processes may be a result of evolution’s ...
Vitamin supplements can provide real benefits, but they are often abused and the dangers are real

Vitamin supplements can provide real benefits, but they are often abused and the dangers are real

Medical News Today | 
A new case report provides a striking example of what can happen if one takes too much vitamin D ...
Video: To feed nearly 8 billion people, we need to grow more food on less land. Vertical farming could increase yields by up to 700%

Video: To feed nearly 8 billion people, we need to grow more food on less land. Vertical farming could increase yields by up to 700%

Big Think | 
Vertical farming is a form of agriculture that grows plants indoors in floor-to-ceiling, tower-like walls of plant-holding cells. Instead of ...
Getting high on hypoxia: Ancient humans went deep into caves in search of euphoria, and depicted the experience in their paintings

Getting high on hypoxia: Ancient humans went deep into caves in search of euphoria, and depicted the experience in their paintings

Big Think | 
As archaeologist Yafit Kedar from Tel-Aviv University in Israel was in France enjoying some cave art deep within the ground, ...
confused

Americans think they know about GMOs, but poll shows consumers still badly confused

Big Think | 
As a non-expert consumer, it’s hard to know what to think about GMOs. Of course, we’re already consuming them, with ...
CRISPR Cas e

US next in line to test CRISPR gene editing technology on human cells

Big Think | 
You probably know about CRISPR-Cas9. It’s the recently developed method for genetic engineering that’s brought costs down by 99%, and ...
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