The scientists at the University of Utah have created a synthetic version of superglue which is produced naturally by the sea worms called Phragmatopoma californica. It might be possible to repair fractured human bones with its help. The worms Phragmatopoma californica inhabit the ocean floor along the California coast. They build “castles” using sand and shattered sea shells, sticking them together with their special glue. The glue hardens in 30 seconds after a worm produces it. Usually these worms build their sandcastles close to each other. This results in big colonies like coral reefs which are also stuck together with the glue. Full story

Hot arguments about health benefits and/or negative effects of coffee are very common these days. However, Scottish scientists recently announced a well-grounded reason on why this beverage should not be largely consumed by young ladies in particular. They claim that coffee prevents female body from developing breasts at normal rate. Coffee has been known for a long time for its numerous "side effects". First of all, regular consumption of coffee can lead to addiction such that the vegetative-vascular system refuses to work without caffeine. Second of all, the drink contributes to a number of negative effects, such as yellow teeth, insomnia, gastritis, etc. Full story

Post-marital depression has been finally put on the list of depressions. Psychologists raise concerns about growing number of brides who are suffering from so called "post-nuptial depression" caused by disillusionment with family life. According to experts, the sense of disappointment that comes after supposedly happiest day in life is quite common among contemporary brides. About 10% of newly married women ask psychologists to help fight their depression. Full story

Good news for those who can't stand going to the dentist. A new tool can detect the earliest signs of caries. It wass developed by British scientists. The “caries detector” analyzes the tooth surface with a laser ray. The technology has been earlier used in the chemical industry – with its help scientists determined the presence of different chemical agents. Full story

The Daily Mail reports the secrets of eternal youth are opening with the help of scientists. Experiments on mice show that the ferment called telomerase may become the main ingredient of “elixir of eternal youth” – the scientists hope that this ferment will help to slow the process of aging. Full story

The world’s first divorce caused by virtual cheating has recently happened in the UK. A woman caught her husband having sex in a game. She couldn’t forgive him a virtual adultery. Amy Tailor, 28, and Dave Pollard, 40, from Cornwall, England, got acquainted in the Internet – both keen on online game Second Life where gamers could create virtual copies of themselves and then communicate with each other. This mutual hobby made Amy and Dave so close that in 2005 they officially got married – in reality. Full story

American scientists discovered that the pitch of the voice can tell us about the best days for conception. The fact is female voice becomes high pitched in the period before and in the time of ovulation – this unconscious “signal” perceived by ear of a man enhances sexual attractiveness of the woman. Full story

The girl is just 10, but her mother already knows that her daughter will never have children. Molly was born with a genetic defect which made her hopelessly sterile. The girl herself doesn’t, of course, understand what her diagnose means, and her mother decided to manage things so that her daughter would never realize all heaviness of sterility. Full story

Trying to forget something that happened to you in the past but still hurts? Experts at the Medical College of Georgia, US, can now erase unpleasant memories from the brain areas responsible for memory without compromising their functions. This kind of experiment, however, has been conducted only on lab mice so far. In the course of trials, the scientists implemented new treatment using a special type of protein. Full story

The study published by US biologists in Science magazine says that it is now possible to extract cells that become the fat tissue from the walls of blood vessels. New findings will help in the treatment of diabetes and obesity as well as improve wound healing. Progenitor cells of the fat tissue are mature stem cells. Unlikely embryonic stem cells that turn into any cell type, they can develop into different cell types within only one tissue – fat tissue in this case. Full story

Sexy women appearing in glossy magazines make men unhappy, according to scientists from the University of Missouri, US. It would seem that men should get esthetic pleasure viewing beautiful female bodies. Yet, after scientists interviewed a large group of the representatives of sterner sex, they found that those who like to flip over glossy magazines have lower self-esteem than their peers who are indifferent to glossy print reading. Full story

All older-aged women have always dreamed of a beauty product that could give the hair back its youthful look. But what we yearn for is more than simply hair dyes to conceal sings of aging. In fact, we want grey hair never appear. Scientists from the University of Manchester and Luebeck University in Germany claim they can now offer a remedy for grey hair after they conducted a number of successful lab experiments. Full story

According to a half-year long study conducted by scientists from Oxford University, perceived health benefits of vegetarianism might eventually turn into health problems. Eating solely vegetarian food leads to decrease in the brain volume as we age, so the scientists warn against excluding fish and meat from diet. Full story

German scientists from the Fraunhofer Institute of Engineering Processes and Packaging designed cancer preventing bread. Flax seeds contain phytoestrogens, which prevent development of hormone-related cancers, such as breast and prostate cancer. Lupine seeds contain cholesterol lowering substances. Unfortunately, nobody enjoys eating those seeds as they have a bad taste. The scientists came up with a way to introduce the healthy substances from those seeds into our regular foods. Full story

Hang Mioku, 48, first went under knife when she was 28. After numerous plastic surgeries, her looks changed so drastically that surgeons refused to carry out further operation, thinking she had some mental disorder. One doctor, however, who used to make silicone injections into her face, gave her a syringe and silicone for self-injections. Mioku soon ran out of her silicone but her pursue for "perfect" beauty stayed on. Korean woman thought it was a good idea to use cooking oil instead of silicone. Full story

British researchers have found that women who dye their hair get more confident. They start to feel themselves more attractive and sexually exciting, becoming more willing to initiate sex with a partner, and even gain enough confidence to ask their bosses for a pay raise. This interesting correlation was found by Dr Mark Sergeant from Nottingham Trent University. Full story

How many friends do you think are enough to keep us from feeling lonely without making us too tired of communication? Some people have only one friend over their lifetime, while the others make new acquaintances nearly every week and are able to get along swimmingly with everybody. But how many people do we really need? Ask the scientists. Full story

It was always women who went under the knife and had all kinds of beauty treatments for body and face. Today's men, however, are rapidly catching up with women in plastic surgery. According to beauty experts, men are now “hanging up” on Botox. Five years ago, wrinkles in the forehead of a man in his forties were quite attractive and told about wisdom acquired with age. Today, men don’t want to look noticeably older than women of their age. Looking at magic changes in women, men also took a fancy for trying cosmetic achievements of mankind. Full story

The scientists at University College London have discovered a brain area that gets activated when people view images they hate. What is more, this area doesn’t relate to those associated with fear, threat and danger, although it shares a part with aggression area. Now it’s clear why love can turn to hate so fast. Full story

German scientists discovered that light emitting diodes can smooth out wrinkles and improve skin elasticity. The health benefits of visible light emission have been known for quite a long time. For instance, it was used to accelerate the wound-healing processes. But scientists couldn't explain the effect until recently. Full story