Gow-Chin Yen and Chin-Lin Hsu and colleagues cite previous research suggesting that obesity can be reduced by preventing immature fat cells (adipocytes) from developing into mature cells.

Earlier research also linked capsaicin to a decrease in the amount of fat tissue and a reduction in blood-fat levels. With that knowledge, the researchers tested capsaicin’s effects on [...]

Analysis of Neolithic remains by researchers at University College London suggests that no European adults could digest milk at the time.

However, the advent of dairy farming meant that a gene for an enzyme capable of breaking down lactose spread quickly.

According to Mark Thomas of UCL, “The ability to drink milk is the most advantageous trait [...]

When X rays and nuclear phenomena were discovered at the end of the nineteenth century, they were seen as great benefits to medicine–the near-magic sight of the living skeleton, and the first means to palliate and cure cancer. But sure enough, there was a dark side also, and too much radiation means a lingering death.

But [...]

Ian Macdonald of the University of Nottingham found that consumption of a cocoa drink rich in flavanols — a key ingredient of dark chocolate — boosts blood flow to key areas of the brain for two to three hours.

Increased blood flow to these areas of the brain may help to increase performance in specific tasks [...]