The health benefits of bacteria enriched yogurts are actually a fake, according to European Food Safety Authority (ESFA). 2006 large-scale study showed that out of 180 supposedly healthy ingredients, 10 are not beneficial at all while the health benefits of the rest 170 have not been confirmed. Full story

According to BBC, Harvard scientists have succeeded in engineering a fully functional cardiac muscle. During the experiment, they identified which heart stem cells produce muscle cells, fat tissue cells and the cells of cardiac conduction system. Full story

А woman looks familiar to you, but you can't remember her name or where you saw her? According to a new University of California study, the memory about it exists – you simply have no access to it. Using advanced brain imaging methods, the scientists found that a person’s brain activity at the moment of remembering an ... Full story

Scientists have made a revolutionary discovery which may help fight obesity in near term. Researchers from Boston succeeded in extracting brown fat out of mouse and human cells. Full story

Frequent hair combing, especially at the beauty salons, can lead to hair loss. Such conclusion was made by an Israeli dermatologist Alexander Kidman. He conducted a study for one month and determined that the more we comb our hair, the more hair we lose. Full story

Scientists from the Tokyo University of Science managed to grow a fully functional tooth in place of a removed one. Full story

Every day most women spend at least a couple of minutes on deciding what to wear for work, dinner, gym, walk, etc. How much time do we spend on choosing clothes through their lives? Full story

While one may argue for ages whether sex is physiology, pleasure or art, inspirers of interactive sexual exhibit never doubt that sex is science! Full story

Scientists from the University of Colorado and the University of Washington (USA) discovered that every month of breastfeeding improves the child’s performance at school by 1 per cent. As part of their study they observed long-term effects of breastfeeding on a sample of 126 twins from 59 families. Full story

A group of researchers from the University of North Carolina developed a special test which can determine the rate of biochemical aging of the body, as they discovered a special protein p16INK4a. The protein helps determine the actual degree of age-related changes in the organism. Full story

The National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, located the part of the body with the highest concentration of bacteria. During the experiment the researchers selected a group of volunteers, who were asked to use the same soap, which had no antibacterial properties, for one week. Full story

As they say getting old is no fun. It’s age that makes us forget things we wanted to say, makes us lose keys, and spend hours trying to remember the password to the e-mail account. Yet, we believed the old age to hit us sometime beyond the "forty benchmark". Full story

“Fat Controller” in the intestines could be the key to preventing obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disorders, scientists claim. They identified an enzyme responsible for whether the fat we eat is converted into energy or stored as extra pounds, Daily Mail reports. Full story

Scientists from the University of San Diego, US, have determined the best physical exercise. They say we have to walk for half an hour every day making 100 steps per minute. Doing this kind of walking every day will provide moderate intensity physical activity, BBC News reports. Full story

Scientists from various institutes worldwide have made so many discoveries! A great part of them refer to health. Below you will find 15 curious facts about health, nutrition, human body and exercise you might not know before. Full story

Female robot HRP-4C, developed by National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, is making a debut as a model at Japan Fashion Week in Tokyo, said the research group for humanoid robots at a demonstration for reporters Monday. Full story

Hypertension poses a serious health threat. Scientists discovered a gene responsible for water-salt metabolism and associated with a high risk of hypertension when they conducted genetic studies among Amish sect adherents who reject civilization and live in strict isolation in southwestern Pennsylvania. Full story