Month: May 2024

Social-media break has huge impact on young women’s body image, study finds

There’s a large and growing body of evidence pointing to potentially negative impacts of social media on mental health, from its addictive nature to disruptions in sleep patterns to effects on body image. Now, a new study has found that young women who took a social media break for as little as one week had […]

Published on May 1, 2024

Why you can taste more ethanol in a cold pint of beer or warm glass of baijiu

We all have our own preferred drinking temperatures for different alcoholic beverages, with people commonly enjoying beer or white wine chilled, red wine near room temperature, or baijiu (Chinese whisky) or sake warmed. Now, researchers report that alcoholic beverages may taste more or less ‘ethanol-like’ at different temperatures, and this may be explained by how […]

Published on May 1, 2024

Scientists work out the effects of exercise at the cellular level

The health benefits of exercise are well known but new research shows that the body’s response to exercise is more complex and far-reaching than previously thought. In a study on rats, a team of scientists has found that physical activity causes many cellular and molecular changes in all 19 of the organs they studied in […]

Published on May 1, 2024