People who consume high amounts of caffeine each day are more likely to suffer occasional headaches than those with low caffeine consumption, a team of researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) reports in a study recently published in the Journal of Headache Pain. It is also reported that low caffeine consumption was associated with a greater likelihood of chronic headaches, defined as headaches for 14 or more days each month. The relationship between caffeine ...read more

Listening to an iPod while working out feels like second nature to many people, but University of Alberta researcher Bill Hodgetts says we need to consider the volume levels in our earphones while doing sports. His research has found that exercising in a gym often prompts people to turn up the volume to potentially unsafe levels for the ear, according to ScienceDaily. It isn't the listening level alone that's risky, it's how long a person listens at that level. What Hodgetts found is that alm ...read more

A team of scientists has developed an application for cell phones that would help save power by showing the energy consumption of individual devices in the household. The application was recently unveiled at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Informational Technology (FIT) in Sankt Augustin, Germany, says Zeenews. The basis for this program is the "Hydra" middleware developed by the institute which is extended by an energy protocol. The middleware reduces the workload of programmers. In Hyd ...read more