S u m m a r y : Meet the world’s oldest prosthesis: a 3,000-year-old wooden toe discovered in an ancient cemetery in Egypt. Wooden Toe in Female Burial An artificial wooden toe has been found in a female burial located in the necropolis of Sheikh ’Abd el-Qurna, Egypt. The ancient prosthetic, dating back to

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S u m m a r y : Viewing pictures of cute animals can help save marriages, suggests a new study published in the journal Psychological Science. Marriage, A Challenge Marriage is not for the weak, because when the initial passion wears off, you have to work to maintain the relationship. How to keep the

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S u m m a r y : Investigating why cats have conquered the Internet, our living rooms, and our hearts took a team of researchers to the Near East, and to (of course) Egypt, right into ancient cat DNA. The new study is published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution. Where it all

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S u m m a r y : A smoke-free policy introduced in a psychiatric hospital accounts for a drop in physical assaults, suggests a new study published in the journal The Lancet Psychiatry. Smoke-free zone breeds No Violence Following the implementation of a no-smoking policy at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

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S u m m a r y : Photosynthetic bacteria protect the heart from damage caused by a heart attack, suggest new findings published in the journal Science Advances. Saving hearts (lives) with photosynthetic bacteria Heart disease claims thousands of lives throughout the year. Researchers are always trying to find better treatment methods to undo

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S u m m a r y : High temperatures cause embryos of bearded dragon lizards to transform into females, and now we know why! The new findings explaining the sex swap are published in the journal Science Advances. Heat changes male lizards into female! “It’s so hot, let me change sex,” says the bearded

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S u m m a r y: The love hormone oxytocin might be behind the courage of parents who are willing to sacrifice their lives to protect their offspring if the need arises, suggests new research published in the journal eLife. A parent’s heart is unlike others’ While the animal (and human) instinct is to

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S u m m a r y : Creating art, from colouring to doodling and drawing, makes the brain feel rewarded, shows a new study published in the journal The Arts in Psychotherapy. Reward your brain with art! Colouring, doodling, and drawing are all rewarding to the brain, says art therapist Girija Kaimal from Drexel

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Summary: Shifts in diets 10,000 years ago led to genetic adaptations that coded for a preference for dietary trends of that time, suggests a new study published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution. The findings might help researchers to build custom-made diets based on a person’s genome to boost health, and protect from disease,

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Summary: The DNA damage done by tobacco smoking has been shown at high resolution throughout the genome in a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Cigarette smoking is extremely harmful down to the DNA—a fact that scientists have known for years now. However, for the first time, a

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Summary: Insomnia genes have been found for the first time, proving that the condition is not entirely a psychological one, thus bringing hope to people suffering from it. The new findings are published in the journal Nature Genetics. 7 Insomnia Genes Discovered Insomnia is not just a psychological condition—it also has a biological mechanism working behind,

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Type I diabetes might be reversed with the BCG vaccine, suggests new findings presented at the 75th Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association. The vaccine known as bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) has been tested on type I diabetes in an FDA-approved clinical trial. Diabetes type I, unlike diabetes type II, is an autoimmune disease whereby

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