Bowel cancer warning – how often should you poo for a healthy gut?

Bowel cancer is one of the most common types of cancer to be diagnosed in the UK, according to the NHS. Most people diagnosed with the cancer are over 60 years old. Bowel cancer symptoms include a persistent change in bowel habit, or a persistent abdominal pain. But, the symptoms of bowel cancer can be difficult to spot, and may not […]

Women often say they prefer taller men — but the reality is more complicated

Christopher Polk/Getty Images for Turner Men are an average of about 5 inches taller than women. Scientific studies suggest that while women might say they have a preference for taller male partners, actual height differences in heterosexual couples aren’t as wide as stated height preferences. Shorter men do tend to marry younger and lower-educated women, […]

Royal Family often travel by commercial jet – for this surprising reason

The Royal Family often travel to foreign countries as part of their role to promote good relations between the countries. They often travel by private jet with Kate Middleton and Prince William recently opting for this during their Canadian tour, as well as Prince Charles and Camilla when visiting Australia. Yet many of the family […]

The women’s hockey final is a perfect example of why bronze is often better than silver at the Olympics

Bruce Bennett/Getty Images The US women’s hockey team avenged their losses to Canada in three of the past four Olympics gold medal matches by winning a gold of their own in a thrilling shootout. For Canada, the silver medal was a painful consolation prize knowing how close they were to gold. Meanwhile, Finland was all […]

Financial regulators too often think “this time is different”

FOR a phenomenon with such predictably bad outcomes, a financial boom is strangely seductive. Not a decade after the most serious financial crisis since the Depression, the world watches soaring markets with a mixture of serenity and glee. Natural impulses make finance a neck-snappingly volatile affair. Governments, though, deserve heaps of blame for policies that […]

Senior officials say Trump often puts on an Indian accent and imitates Prime Minister Modi

Susan Walsh/AP According to a new report, President Donald Trump is known to imitate Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi by putting on an Indian accent. But a comment about the US strategy in Afghanistan that Modi made last year stood out to Trump, and indicated to him that the world sees the US as being mired […]

A gene that keeps track of how often it’s made into a protein

Enlarge / Ribosomes sometimes ignore one of these. (credit: Noirathsi’s Eye / Flickr) Folks in the Baranov lab in County Cork, Ireland, were just reviewing old data they had lying around—you, know, as one does on a slow, boring afternoon—and they noticed something weird. The complexes within a cell that translate RNA into proteins were […]