Surprising Science

Scientists predict the majestic glaciers that cap the Canadian Rockies will lose 70 percent of their volume by 2100.

A significant study showed more spinach and kale in your diet may help slow cognitive decline.

A recent study shows the importance of breaking a sweat every once in a while during your workouts, especially for those of middle age or older — it may just prolong your life.

Use humor to draw someone out of their shell.

Here’s a problematic new study: Women looking for marriage still find narcissistic traits alluring.

The study of when too much of a good thing can kill you — about 16 glasses every day.

We instinctively feel safer about anything natural and more worried by anything human-made, but instincts may not lead to choices that do human or environmental health the most good.

Smiling changes how the brain processes other people’s emotions. As the Louis Armstrong song goes, “When you’re smilin’, the whole world smiles at you.”

NASA is considering the moon as a kind of galactic pit stop for astronauts to refuel before they go to Mars.

Exercise — not diet — has the greatest impact on our waistlines as we age. So, while foregoing the bacon cheeseburgers of your youth is a good step, you’ll need to go further to stay fit.

Some well-placed eyeliner can make a look, but put it on the waterline of your eye and, well, you might as well be drawing it onto your cornea.

Some people believe generous welfare benefits make people more dependent — not so, according to researchers.

Some supposed rationalists would have us believe we are ill-fated idiots. An ancient Greek myth of Prometheus can help us see how to avert this modern tragedy of reason (whereby a sub-natural view of rationality risks making ancient idiots of us).

Biomechanical scientists have created a simple device that can increase walking efficiency, or “human gas mileage,” by an average of 7 percent when worn around the ankle. 

Study finds that Rhode Island kids who were allowed to sip an alcoholic beverage were four times more likely to have been drunk by the time they reached high school.

Changing up your routine by walking backwards may be enough to boost creativity, although it may also lead to a decrease in productivity.

Some people have trouble making left-right distinctions. It’s not a big deal, so long as you don’t work in a medical profession.

A new study examines over a hundred rumors spread through over a thousand news articles in 2014 and investigates the role major news publications play in the spread of misinformation.

In the spirit of April Fools’ Day, researchers decided to put the old saying, “An apple a day keeps the doctor away,” to the test.

One in five students will experience ‘exploding head syndrome,’ a disruptive disorder caused by the auditory neurons firing at once, waking sleepers with a loud bang.

Ever feel powerless to help a cause you believe in because its troubles are a great distance away? Just because you’re far from the Brazilian rainforest or the polar ice caps or Mt. Everest doesn’t mean you can’t play an important role in protecting those places.

Your IQ wasn’t set at birth. Turns out, intelligence is quite malleable. Genes play a role in influencing your intelligence, but not as much as your upbringing.

LifePaint is motivated by a grim statistic — every year in the UK over 19,000 cyclists are involved in accidents.

When should you take time to brainstorm? When you’re fatigued. The creative spark tends to hit when your brain is tired and unable to filter those weird ideas.

Research suggests that cold showers are an effective way of boosting the circulation system while also offering mood-lifting benefits on the side.

Procrastinators should watch themselves; according to a recent study, putting off today what you could do tomorrow may have ties to heart disease.

Art, music, and gym are always the first to go when school administrators seek cuts, yet a child’s physical well-being is just as important to society as his or her intellectual skills.

For every good deed, people feel they have license to do a little bad. For shoppers who bring reusable bags, that may just mean some extra chips in the shopping cart.

Tech companies fighting for market share are focused on making their products and services so pleasurable that they become the stuff of compulsive habits in their customers.

Living on the moon may be a far reach — chances are any lunar colony would be located inside the moon.