The men’s marathon Olympic event will take place on August 24th. Many of the eager fans waiting at the finish line are probably wondering how long-distance runners can endure such a strenuous sport. Now, researchers say they may have the answer.

A team of researchers from Madrid, Amsterdam and Wisconsin looked at the heart rates of 211 middle- and long-distance runners who were serious competitors in five to 100 km races. They found the heart rates of runners increased steadily throughout...

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Playing video games improves manual dexterity among surgeons, making them faster and less likely to make mistakes, US researchers said Sunday.

The findings were contained in a raft of research about how video games effect the people who play them, discussed on Sunday at the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association in Boston.

"The big picture is that there are several dimensions in which games have effects," including their content, how they...

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SYDNEY: Australian scientists said Monday they had mapped a blood cell structure which could hold the key to improved drug treatments for diseases such as leukaemia, asthma and rheumatoid arthritis.

The researchers said they have created the first 3-D image of a protein receptor in white blood cells which, when malfunctioning, can cause leukaemia. "It's called a receptor because it interacts with a hormone... in this case a hormone called GM-CSF," said professor Michael...

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People who want to live a long and healthy life might want to take up running. A study shows middle-aged members of a runner's club were half as likely to die over a 20-year period as people who did not run.

Running reduced the risk not only of heart disease, but of cancer and neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's, researchers at Stanford University in California found.

"At 19 years, 15% of runners had died compared with 34% of controls," Eliza Chakravarty...

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Give a second thought before you pop the next contraceptive pill, for a study has revealed that it may disrupt a women's natural ability to choose Mr Right.

A team at Liverpool University in Britain has carried out the study and found that the contraceptive pill changes a woman's choice in men by altering the way she actually reacts to a male body odour.

According to experts, a man's aroma gives a clue to his type of genes and ability to fight disease, and women subconsciously...

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