Red wine, berries, dark chocolate and tea: A recipe to reduce dementia risk

Consuming foods and drinks particularly high in flavonoids – such as berries, tea, dark chocolate and, yes, red wine – could potentially safeguard your brain in older age, with researchers linking these plant-based antioxidants with lowering the risk o… Continue reading Red wine, berries, dark chocolate and tea: A recipe to reduce dementia risk

Study demonstrates dogs can detect the smell of human stress

Having been domesticated many thousands of years ago, dogs have evolved to become highly attuned to human behavior, but a study has taken this concept into new terrain. The authors conducted experiments to explore whether canines can detect increasing … Continue reading Study demonstrates dogs can detect the smell of human stress

Water study may wash out hopes for life on Venus

Hopes of finding life on Venus had already been dashed, but now a new study may have hammered the last nail into the coffin. New modeling of water activity on different solar system planets has found that Venus would be too dry for even the most extrem… Continue reading Water study may wash out hopes for life on Venus

Hibernating zebrafish offer lessons for healthy human spaceflight

Getting humans safely to a place like Mars is going to pose all kinds of scientific challenges, and a particularly pressing one centers on the rather important issue of human health. Astronauts enduring long-periods in space may be in danger of changes… Continue reading Hibernating zebrafish offer lessons for healthy human spaceflight