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There's No Such Thing as 'Comfort Food'
(Newser) - Your favorite food hasn't really got the power to chase the blues away after a bad day, researchers say. A University of Minnesota team took a group of volunteers—most of whom were confident that their favorite "comfort food" could help lift their mood—showed them movie clips... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, September 15, 2014 7:12 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science, Lifestyle.
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Skyscraper Rising in Middle of the Amazon
(Newser) - At 1,066 feet, a tower rising in Brazil will be taller than New York City's Chrysler Building—or any skyscraper in South America—but it won't have any neighbors in sight. The Amazon Tall Tower Observatory, around 100 miles from the city of Manuas, is designed to... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, September 15, 2014 7:12 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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Your Teacher Was Wrong About Volcanoes
(Newser) - Textbooks have long offered students an explanation of volcanoes that's totally wrong—or so say scientists who are offering a very different theory, Caltech reports. The standard explanation depends on the existence of long, narrow columns or jets of magma known as mantle plumes. Since about 1990, they've... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, September 15, 2014 7:12 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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24-Year-Old Discovers She's Missing Key Part of Brain
(Newser) - The cerebellum is a pretty important part of the brain—it plays a key role in walking, among other movements—so doctors in China were more than a little surprised when a 24-year-old patient who lives a relatively normal life turned out not to have one. A CT scan revealed... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, September 15, 2014 7:12 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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Mystery of Ground Zero Wedding Photo Solved
(Newser) - Every year on 9/11, Elizabeth Stringer Keefe has tweeted out an image of a tattered wedding photo that a friend of hers found at Ground Zero, in the hopes that this time, the right person would see it. And now, after 13 years of trying, the right person has. On... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, September 15, 2014 7:12 AM. The story matched your section(s) Lifestyle.
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Millennials Read More Than the Rest of Us
(Newser) - Today's kids don't read, right? Wrong, io9 reports: A Pew survey finds that some 67% of those ages 16 to 29 read a book at least once a week—more than the 58% of adults ages 30 and older who do so. Meanwhile, 43% of the younger group... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, September 15, 2014 7:12 AM. The story matched your section(s) Lifestyle.
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Mammals Have Been Around Way Longer Than We Thought
(Newser) - A squirrel-like animal in the tree branches above would have been a familiar sight to some dinosaurs, researchers have learned. Newly discovered fossils indicate that mammals have been around since "at least" the late Triassic period, an expert says, though he acknowledges that his claim—which suggests mammals appeared... More » Newser located this story for you on Monday, September 15, 2014 7:12 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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