A bad relationship may end in a 'broken heart,' but research
indicates stayng in a bad relationship is really bad news for your
heart. It can lead to cardiovascular disease or stroke. 
Many studies have shown that dark chocolate has healh benefits, but few
have shown such immediate remedial benefits as the study published in
the most recent Journal of the American Heart Association.
Could the study, although conducted with peripheral artery disease
(PAD) patients, also suggest some benefit to athletes, particularly
marathoners?
People with a slow gait are more likely to be dependent on others for
care, more prone to falls and the concomitant broken bones, and more
dependent on pain relief medication. Researchers at the University of
St. Louis looked into the possibility that dance, a once very popular
activity of the elderly (during the 1940's and 50's, for example), might
help increase and stabilize gait as well as help reduce pain and
stiffness in the hips and legs in older persons.
Psychologists who study the impact of video games on the human brain
have an interest in how games can be utilized to reinforce certain
everyday thinking skills. Assistant Professor of Psychology at Nanyang
Technological University in Singapore, Michael D. Patterson, is
considered an expert in the psychology of video games. He has
previously identified certain thinking skills enhanced by individual
games, but the game 'Cut The Rope' is the first one, according to Patterson, that shows evidence of improving 'executive function' in adult gamers.
Though great advances have been made to maximize the amount of sunlight that
is absorbed by solar cells, the best solution, until now, is a two-step
chemical process that enables the cells to absorb 96 percent of the
sun's light. That's an excellent result. But Rice University chemists
have created a single-step process that enables the cells to absorb 99
percent of the sun's light, a process that is not only more efficient
than other current processes, but less expensive.
Researchers at Boston University's Department of Biomedical Engineering
and Massachusetts General Hospital have developed a revolutionary device
equivalent to a 'bionic pancreas,' a device which does all the
regulating of blood sugar that a human pancreas does when it is
functioning properly. The bionic pancreas has been tested and found
superior to blood glucose pumps on the market today as well as other
pumps currently being tested.
Reflective lights and clothing let bicyclists be seen at night, but one invention, created by students at California State University Long Beach, went a few steps further.... They created VibriSee, cat-like whiskers for your bike that make the bike and the biker more visible in daylight as well as at night. And though the whiskers may look like a cat's, their biomimetic functions are actually more like peacocks, rodents, octopuses, and ctenophores.
You know that 'love at first sight' thing? Much of that feeling,
including the feeling of sexual arousal, is due to the hormone oxytocin
(not to be confused with the drug 'oxycodone'), which is produced by
the hypothalmus and released by the pituitary gland. Researchers at the
University of Tokyo recently performed experiments with dogs applying
an oxytocin spray to their noses, and learned that the hormone has other
effects besides sexual arousal.
You may be surprised to know that the prevalence of sexism is greater
among the millenial generation than it is or was in the baby boomer
generation. Because of the resurgence of male gender superiority as a more
prevalent attitude among men and women, social scientists have been
examining the trend of late, trying to ascertain why and where these
attitudes come from. A study published in the journal Sex Roles examines the role that the feeling of 'entitlement' plays.
Most deaths from breast cancer occur because the cancer spreads, or
metastasizes, to one or more vital organs. The medical quest,
therefore, has been to find the best predictor(s) of metastasis, so that
appropriate intervention can occur before metastasis takes place or, at
the very least, early in the process. Having determined the set of
cellular circumstances that lead to the spread of breast cancer,
researchers at the Einstein Cancer Center and the Montefiore Einstein
Center for Cancer Care, developed a test to search for these factors.