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Obesity is associated with a host of health problems. But a new study finds that obese people may actually have an advantage in a specific medical situation: they’re less likely to die after surgery from certain respiratory complications than are their non-obese counterparts.

For decades, policy makers have tried and failed to get Americans to eat less salt. In April 2010 the Institute of Medicine urged the U.S.

Researchers in Sweden have succeeded in delivering an optical amplifier capable of amplifying light with extremely low noise. The study is published in the journal Nature Photonics.

You knew it wasn't good for your lungs, but new tests find that pollution affects your cognitive abilities and may cause depression. It's no secret that breathing in polluted air on a regular basis can do a number on your heart and lungs

Take a hot bath, you’ll fee better. Not only does warm water soothe us, it can combat loneliness. According to research published in the journal Emotion .

(PhysOrg.com) -- Working out of Tokyo University, scientists in the Department of Materials Science, have developed a new metal alloy that unlike other “superelastic” alloys can resume its original shape in temperatures ranging from -196 to 249 degrees Celsius. Prior to this discovery, such alloys were only able to revert to their original form in the much narrower range of -20 to 80 degrees Celsius.

A look behind the scenes at what it took to make it onto this year's list, and at some of the emerging trends it illuminates about young entrepreneurship today. What does it take to make the 30 Under 30 list? It's a question that we're asked often, and one that's a bit difficult to answer.

The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday on the latest plan to shore up our country's finances and jumpstart the economy: A new tax-repatriation holiday. The holiday would involve drastically lowering taxes on corporate profits for companies that choose to bring assets back into this country. (It's common practice for big companies to store most of their cash in tax havens in order to avoid paying the 35 percent corporate profit tax

Counting on food with fake fats to help you slip into last year’s bathing suit?

Birds and sea turtles can migrate thousands of miles, by reading the Earth’s magnetic cues. But we too might have magnetic sensing abilities--in our eyes. So says a study in the journal Nature Communications

Europeans ate their way through the island nation of Mauritius, most famously eliminating the dodo bird by 1700.

Saliva contains many useful components. Lubricants

“I don’t know if you’ve ever walked a pit bull. You owe it to your life to walk a pit bull down the street, I’m telling you. It’s like a gun you can pet, it’s the only way to describe it, it’s awesome.” Comedian Bill Burr.

Good news, if you haven't noticed, has always been rare commodity.

A newborn’s immune system needs time to figure out what should be fought and what should be left alone. Conventional wisdom had it that early exposure to potential troublemakers, from peanuts to pets, could lead to allergy issues later. But recent research shows that having a dog or cat at home isn't likely to make children allergic to animals