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Cara Delevingne Gets Candid About Her Sex Life on RuPaul’s “What’s The Tee?” Podcast
On Thursday, Cara Delevingne hopped on RuPaul and Michelle Visage’s podcast “What’s the Tee?” and opened up about her sex life to the Drag Race stars. The British model started by sharing how she lost her virginity. “I only started having sex when I was 18. I was quite late,” she told the host. “Me too,” said RuPaul, who added that he prefers laughter over sex. RuPaul’s comment struck a chord with the model-actress and she replied: “I think laughter in sex is so important ’cause you watch movies, and you’re like,…
Read MoreMothers of fussy babies at higher risk of depressive symptoms
It’s no secret that fussy newborns can be especially challenging for parents already facing physical and mental exhaustion from caring for a new baby. But now science backs up the impact on parents: The less soothable the infant, the more distressed the mother. Mothers of highly irritable infants experience greater depressive symptoms, according to new University of Michigan-led research. The nationally representative study, which included data from more than 8,200 children and their parents, appears in Academic Pediatrics. The study is also believed to be the first to explore whether the…
Read MoreExercise adds up to big brain boosts
Anyone who trains for a marathon knows that individual running workouts add up over time to yield a big improvement in physical fitness. So, it should not be surprising that the cognitive benefits from workouts also accumulate to yield long-term cognitive gains. Yet, until now, there was has been little research to describe and support the underlying neurobiology. In new work being presented this week about the effects of exercise on the brain at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) in San Francisco, researchers are finding that brain changes that occur…
Read MoreSkin cancer can spread in mice by hijacking the immune system
Scientists have uncovered molecules released by invasive skin cancer that reprogram healthy immune cells to help the cancer to spread. Targeting these molecules with inhibiting drugs could help to prevent this aggressive skin cancer coming back after treatment. The findings of the Cancer Research UK-funded study are published in Cell, today (Thursday). Researchers from Queen Mary University of London looked at cells from the edges of invasive melanomas in mice and human tumour samples, to investigate the effects of a protein they produce — called Myosin II*. They found that high…
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