The remote Arctic island in Siberia is believed to be the final place on Earth to support woolly mammoths as an isolated population until their extinction about 2000 BCE, making them the most recent surviving population known to science.
Finnish scientists concluded that the frequent numbers of lifetime intentional weight loss reflect susceptibility to weight gain, rendering dieters prone to future weight gain. Dieting itself may induce a small subsequent weight gain, independent of genetic factors.
The use of mirrors in Mesoamerican culture was associated with the idea that they served as portals to a realm that could be seen but not interacted with. Mirrors in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica were fashioned from stone and served a number of uses, from the decorative to the divinatory.
A study of more than 200,000 Australians adds to the growing body of evidence that people who sit the most die the soonest.
It may be great for curing a splitting headache, but scientists have now discovered that aspirin also activates an enzyme that burns fat, a finding that could unlock its cancer fighting properties, according to a new study.