Scientists say they understand more about how the body responds to pleasurable touch. A team, including scientists from the Unilever company, have identified a class of nerve fibres in the skin which specifically send pleasure messages. And people had to be stroked at a certain speed – 4-5cm per second – to activate the pleasure […]

In the animal- and insect-kingdom, communication is made through an invisible world of scents. By exploiting infrared technology, researchers at Rockefeller University just made that world visible. With the ability to see smells, these scientists now show that when fly larvae detect smells with both olfactory organs they find their way toward a scented target […]

Eating strawberries minimal once a month, results in less a decrease of cognitive functions with elderly in comparison with their peers who don’t eat the strawberries. The effect is even stronger with women who eat the fruit. That is the conclusion of American scientists of Tufts University in Medford. The subjects were all enlisted at […]

Recent research has shown that a low levels of the sunshine vitamin, vitamin D, may contribute to chronic pain among women. This does not apply to men, suggesting hormones may be involved, according to a study published in the Annals of Rheumatic Diseases. In succession of the research, studies are now investigating if vitamin D […]

Fingerprints could be used to detect traces of drugs or explosives in one of the most significant improvements in the technology for years. Police now have the ability to analyse the traces of cannabis, cocaine and other drugs, or explosives, in a fingerprint itself. The new technique reveals, in extraordinary detail, the chemical compounds that […]