Cracking your knuckles does not actually hurt your bones or cause arthritis. The sound you hear is just gas bubbles bursting.
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Laughing could dramatically improve your health – and be as good for you as a deep state of meditation, researchers have found.
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The right lung takes in more air than the left.
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Fidgeting can burn about 350 calories a day.
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Brain freeze is caused by the brain sensing the drop of temperature on your palate and increasing blood pressure in an attempt to save you from freezing.
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‘Fracture putty’ is a material being developed that when packed in & around a bone fracture, provides full load bearing strength within days.
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There's a new vaccine for alcoholism that gives drinkers an immediate and harsh hangover, even if they drink a small amount of booze.
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Putting sugar on a wound or cut will greatly reduce pain and speed up the healing process.
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