17-04-20 Superagers are people over age 80 who have memories of healthy 50- to 60-year-olds. 超级老者指的是年龄超过80岁，但记忆力相当于五六十岁老者的老年人。 A new study is revealing interesting brain characteristics in older adults who arent aging like most...

17-04-15 For Rob Willner, when work finishes, playtime begins. He likes nothing more when he gets home of an evening, than to kick off his shoes and upturn a crate of sleek Scandinavian Lego. 对于罗布维尔纳来说，工作结束以后，游戏时间就开始了。傍晚下班回到家...

16-08-23 For older adults, having more or closer family members in ones social network decreases his or her likelihood of death, but having a larger or closer group of friends does not, finds a new study that will be presented at the 111th Annual Meeting of...

16-05-16 The lack of child-specific medication has led many parents to give their children reduced doses of drugs intended for adults. While the practice often works, medical experts are concerned that imprecise doses and inappropriate treatments could endan...

16-01-08 Generation pause refers to young adults who are not able to do things previously typical for their age group such as buy a home, start a family and have kids because they are short of money. 暂停的一代指到了一定年纪，却因为没有钱而无法像前辈人那样买...

15-06-12 Spellchecks are turning us into a nation of dunces with a third of adults failing to reach the expected spelling ability of an 11 year-old child, a shock study reveals. 拼写检查功能正将英国变成一个傻子的国度。一个研究惊人地发现，该国三分之一的成年人...

15-03-18 For every parent who ever wondered what the heck their teens were thinking when they posted risky information or pictures on social media, a team of Penn State researchers suggests that they were not really thinking at all, or at least were not thin...

15-03-17 1. A king size water bed holds enough water to fill a 2000 square foot house 4 inches deep. 2. If you spray hair spray on dust bunnies and run over them with roller blades, they can ignite. 3. A 3-year old boy's voice is louder than 200 adults in a...

14-11-29 Shopping can boost the brainpower of the elderly, researchers have found. 研究人员发现，购物能提高老年人的智力。 Duke University scientists found older adults seem to need extra brainpower to make shopping decisions - especially ones that rely on me...

13-07-08 Compulsive hoarding (or pathological collecting) is a pattern of behavior that is characterized by the excessive acquisition of and inability or unwillingness to discard large quantities of objects that cover the living areas of the home and cause s...