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11/27/2017 / By Michelle Simmons

How many calories do you burn walking? It depends – on what you’re carrying and whether you’re going uphill or down

Researchers have developed a new way to determine how many calories a person burns when walking uphill or downhill, as reported by the Science Daily. Researchers from the Southern Methodist University (SMU) have developed a more accurate method called the “Minimum Mechanics Model” to estimate how much energy a soldier uses when walking. “Our new […]

11/20/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

Wars keep on killing: Gulf War illness causes DNA damage in vets, according to new research

Gulf War Illness (GWI), or Gulf War Syndrome, is the name given to a cluster of chronic symptoms affecting Gulf War veterans and civilian workers. The cause behind these symptoms — which range from fatigue to joint pains to memory problems — has been studied and debated on for the longest time. Yet scientists from […]

04/11/2017 / By Jayson Veley

Brain stimulating technology once denounced as “quackery” by skeptics now being used by the Pentagon to boost mental performance of Navy Seals

With each passing day, the world seems to look more and more like a science fiction film. We are constantly developing new forms of medicine and technology, most of which didn’t even exist in our wildest dreams not long ago. Cell phones, for instance, were once nothing more than a concept routinely portrayed on episodes […]

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