drinking Low-fat dairy can lower risk of breast cancer: study

The consumption of low-fat dairy products can lower the risk of breast cancer, suggests a study published by researchers at Laval University and the Research Center. In premenopausal women, eating 14 or more servings of lean dairy products per week...

Lucy was not very bright

The Australopithecus, a prehuman genus to which the fossil of the famous Lucy, discovered in Ethiopia in 1974, belongs, did not possess highly developed intellectual capacities. Our current gorillas, chimpanzees and orangutans would be even brighter than our distant Australopithecus...

Indoor plants do not really purify the air

It would take between 100 and 1000 plants per square meter of floor space to compete with the purification capacity of a building's air treatment system or even a few windows open in a home, say US scientists. Dr. Michael...

Masks hard to distinguish from human faces

Silicone masks have become so realistic that they are more and more difficult to differentiate from real human heads, show the results of a British study. In fact, these plastic masks imitate not only the face of a person, but...

Four in five teens do not exercise enough: WHO

Some 81 per cent of students aged 11 to 17 around the world have low levels of physical activity, according to a World Health Organization (WHO) study. This is the most ambitious study to date, covering 1.6 million young people...