Weightless, skin-like bandages with microelectronic components may one day replace the bulky monitors and electrode patches now used in hospitals to monitor patients’ vital signs, researchers said.Weightless, skin-like bandages with microelectronic components may one day replace the bulky monitors a

WASHINGTON, Aug 3, 2011 (AFP) - Israeli researchers studied a population of Ashkenazi Jews who have lived to age 95 and older and found that their eating and lifestyle habits were no better than those of the general population.In fact, men in the long-lived group drank slightly more and exercised le

The human brain may have hit its limit because of a lack of energy and oxygen required for mankind to become any smarter, research indicates. The Daily Mail reported research by Cambridge University on the structure of brain and how much energy its cells consume. The neurobiologists said brain capac

Children as young as five are receiving treatment for eating disorders, according to data from the British National Health Service.In past three years, 98 children between the age of five and seven were hospitalized for anorexia, while another 99 youngsters between eight and nine visited specialists

WASHINGTON (AP) — Were the Neanderthals simply crowded out by the ancestors of modern humans?That's the theory of a pair of British researchers, who say early modern humans outnumbered Neanderthals by 10-to-1 in a region of southwestern France they studied.Scientists have long debated the circumstances in which modern people replaced Neanderthals across Europe about 40,000 years ago. Leading resea

BRUSSELS (AFP)— An unidentified flying object photographed high in the Belgian sky that puzzled even NASA scientists turns out to have been a fake made out of foam, the man behind the hoax said Tuesday.Though scientists pored over the picture of a triangular-shaped flying saucer with four lights, allegedly photographed in April 1990 by a young worker, the mystery remained intact until the man's re

The London Sperm Bank has established an Internet database of sperm donors. It provides descriptions of the personality, hobbies and fashion sense of donors, the Telegraph reported.The online catalogue includes the motivations of male donors, followed by the impressions of staff as to what the donors are like.In the brochure, one is described by a member of staff as “softly spoken, introspective,