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Vegetarians will probably never have to undergo the unpleasant duvet-drenching ‘meat sweat’ experience. The Urban Dictionary sums up this bizarre ordeal pretty neatly:“To consume an obscene amount of meat resulting in perfuse sweating."

Neocortex matters more than social enhancements à la Facebook, says Robin Dunbar's number Dunbar in a recent article. Will these results get him a Nobel Prize?

The biomechanical basis for good running technique. What does Pose actually say? What is Pose running?

What do the running techniques promise? Do we run ‘incorrectly’ without these techniques? Is “natural” incorrect? A philosophical debate on the merits of natural vs taught.

Running is a basic activity, right? Even swimming is a sport where the coach will stand along side you and demonstrate correct arm movement, position of the body, use of the legs, and so on. But running, that's inherent, we JUST DO IT (sorry, Phil and the Nike gang). Right?

Bottlenose dolphins can switch diabetes on and off – a trick that could be mimicked to treat humans with the condition.

What do the famous painting and the former United State's President have in common?

The new head of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the National Toxicology Program is attempting to uncover what role chemicals and contaminants may play in human health.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009 is attributed to Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider, Jack Szostak for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase.

With the aid of a strong magnetic field, mice have been made to levitate for hours at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. The floating rodents could provide a valuable insight into how astronauts are affected by extended spells in zero gravity.