Two new studies reaffirm what coffee-lovers have always known: three to five cups a day makes people live longer.Joe Raedle/Getty Images
You know what they say: Three to five cups of coffee a day keep the doctor away!
Or, that’s what they should say. Two new studies, published Monday, have reaffirmed what people have known for centuries: your daily cup of joe gives you life. To reach this conclusion, researchers in the first study surveyed 520,000 people in ten different European countries — making this the largest-ever project examining the connection between coffee and mortality. Read More...
On June 12, 1944, Edmond Réveil witnessed the execution of 47 German soldiers and one French collaborator, who had been captured shortly after an uprising in the French city of Tulle.TwitterEdmond Réveil and other resistance members agreed to not speak about the mass killing after it took place in 1944.
For decades, Edmond Réveil carried a dark secret. But as he reached the end of his life, the former French resistance member decided to come clean, and told the media about the execution of 47 German soldiers and one female French collaborator that he witnessed in 1944 during World War II. Read More...
The insidious pathogen invades a frog's skin cells, and quickly begins multiplying. The animal's skin begins to peel off, and it grows weary, and dies — but not before spreading.Jonathan E. Kolby/Honduras Amphibian Rescue & Conservation CenterThe mossy red-eyed frog is one of the 500 species currently threatened by Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis.
When scientists discovered a plague killing frogs all over the world, they were concerned. Unfortunately, the problem is far worse than they thought, as this amphibian fungus is now being called “the most deadly pathogen known to science. Read More...
