Pessimists tend to have greater stress and fewer coping skills. One study showed that in older people, pessimism is also correlated with higher stress levels, more focus on the less positive parts of their life, and a greater tendency to look back on life with more negativity in general, reducingRead More →

Being a beautiful baby did not predict who would become the best-looking adults, a new study found. Facial attractiveness is not stable from infancy into adulthood, suggests research published in the journal Infant Behavior & Development. Do attractive couples have more daughters? According to research collected over a 53-year period,Read More →

While most states do not have any such restriction on getting remarried, you might live in one of a handful of states that have a waiting period for remarriage after a divorce. You may need a waiting period. It’s important to avoid rushing into a second marriage after a divorce.Read More →

Benign tumors don’t necessarily turn into malignant tumors. Some have the potential, though, to become cancerous if abnormal cells continue to change and divide uncontrollably. These terms describe some unusual characteristics of potentially premalignant tumors: Hyperplasia. How long does it take for a tumor to become malignant? Scientists have foundRead More →

Methane can be dissolved in water much like the bubbles (carbonation) in soda. When water containing methane is pumped to the surface, the temperature rises, and the pressure drops, which causes the methane to be released from the water, just as the bubbles in soda are released when the containerRead More →

Breast. Prostate. Lung. Kidney. Thyroid. Can early stage cancer metastasis? Sometimes the metastatic tumors have already begun to grow when the cancer is first found. And sometimes, a metastasis may be found before the original (primary) tumor is found. If a cancer has already spread to other parts of theRead More →