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Study: Another Reason for Daily Wine

Study: Another Reason for Daily Wine

Coffee, tea, beer, and wine seem to make kidney stones less likely.

Study: Forget a Word? Make a Fist moonwaves/flickr

Study: Forget a Word? Make a Fist

Clenching a hand increases focal brain activity. Make sure to do it correctly, though.

Study: Skydiving Not Relaxing flickr

Study: Skydiving Not Relaxing

Veteran skydivers feel less anxious than beginners, but their bodies still release the same amount of stress hormone.

Study: Kids Are Prejudiced Against Fat People by Age 4 Peter Becker/Flickr

Study: Kids Are Prejudiced Against Fat People by Age 4

British elementary school students believed an overweight storybook character was more likely to be naughty and less likely to have friends.

Study: Men's Biceps Predict Their Political Ideologies Valentin Flauraud/Reuters

Study: Men's Biceps Predict Their Political Ideologies

Positions on economic redistribution correlated with upper-body strength.

Study: Happiness Comes Easier With Upbeat Music Toby Melville/Reuters

Study: Happiness Comes Easier With Upbeat Music

Resarch subjects were better able to will themselves into positive moods while listening to rousing symphonies.

Study: Why Pot Smokers Are Skinnier Nick Adams/Reuters

Study: Why Pot Smokers Are Skinnier

Marijuana users had smaller waists and scored higher across several measures of blood sugar regulation.

Study: People Test Positive for Smoke Exposure After Staying in Non-Smoking Hotel Rooms bradleygee/Flickr

Study: People Test Positive for Smoke Exposure After Staying in Non-Smoking Hotel Rooms

Non-smokers who stayed in non-smoking rooms had cigarette byproducts on their fingers and in their urine the next morning.

Study: Parents Who 'Clean' Pacifiers With Their Mouths May Be Protecting Kids From Asthma, Allergies @boetter/Flickr

Study: Parents Who 'Clean' Pacifiers With Their Mouths May Be Protecting Kids From Asthma, Allergies

At 18 months, babies who had come into repeated contact with their parents' saliva were 12 percent less likely to have asthma and 37 percent less likely to develop eczema.

Study: Doctors' Word Choice Affects End-of-Life Decisions Alessandro Vernet/Flickr

Study: Doctors' Word Choice Affects End-of-Life Decisions

People were 20 percent more likely to choose DNR if it was phrased as "allowing natural death;" 25 percent if they were told it's what most other people choose.

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