4+ hour, 33+ min ago  (945+ words) There are few things better than a cold slice of pizza for breakfast. But as delicious as scarfing down cold pizza is, there's also a risk of food poisoning if you aren't careful. Food poisoning is caused by eating food…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (712+ words) AI chatbots can act as a "cognitive crutch" that reduces our ability to retain information, a new study suggests. The research was conducted by AI expert Andr" Barcaui of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, who ran an experiment…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago  (676+ words) A new study may have identified the oldest known dice, dating back more than 12,000 years. The record-breaking game pieces were used by Native American hunter-gatherers near the end of the last ice age, which makes them thousands of years older…...

5+ day, 31+ min ago  (763+ words) A strange chunk of metal that lay hidden in the soil for thousands of years may shed new light on one of the most mysterious cultures in ancient China. The approximately 3,000-year-old Sanxingdui artifact appears to be an axe-like object…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago  (747+ words) Every March Madness it happens. A player steps to the line, takes the shot and misses. And just like that, there goes your perfect bracket. These are elite players. The player has made that shot thousands of times before. So…...

1+ week, 6+ hour ago  (646+ words) The swashbuckling 1844 adventures of French author Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers were not entirely a work of fiction. Each of the main characters was based on a real 17th-century French soldier " and now the remains of the fourth and most…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (654+ words) Consistency is key to building healthy habits, and our daily meal choices may be no exception. Researchers at Drexel University in the US have now found evidence that indulging in the same meals and snacks day after day can lead…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (325+ words) Migratory freshwater fish populations crucial to river health and sustaining the livelihoods of millions of people are in freefall and risk collapse, a major UN assessment warned Tuesday. Habitat destruction, overfishing and water pollution from the Amazon to the Danube…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (797+ words) For decades, elite runners have travelled the world to train at high altitude. When oxygen levels in the air are low, the body responds by producing more red blood cells " the cells responsible for carrying oxygen around the body. When…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (569+ words) A coffee hit might be more commonly associated with increased alertness, but a new study shows that it could also help lower the risks of developing anxiety and depression " and there's actually a sweet spot when it comes to how…...