According to a new study, taking an aspirin a day can help prevent bowel cancer.Oxford University researchers said taking a dose of 300mg a day for five years offered the protection, reports the BBC.Long-term aspirin use is generally not backed because of the risk of stomach problems, but the team said it could benefit those at high-risk of cancer.The researchers found that taking 300mg of aspirin - the equivalent of one pill - a day for five years reduced the incidence of bowel cancer by 74% in the subsequent 10 to 15 years.The protective effect was also seen in individuals who had a close family

Researchers say, that a fruity cocktail may not only be fun to drink but may count as health food.Adding ethanol - the type of alcohol found in rum, vodka, tequila and other spirits - boosted the antioxidant nutrients in strawberries and blackberries, so any colored fruit might be made even more healthful with the addition of a splash of alcohol.They were exploring ways to help keep strawberries fresh during storage. Treating the berries with alcohol increased in antioxidant capacity and free radical scavenging activity, they found.via cnn.com

Carrots, rich in beta carotene, long have been thought to sharpen eyesight.A new study suggests that beta carotene pills are powerless against a common type of vision loss among older people. Age-related macular degeneration is the leading cause of blindness in people 65 and older. The condition blurs the center of the field of vision, making it difficult to read, drive, thread a needle and even recognize faces.Currently the best advice might be something you've heard before: Eat five or more servings of fruits and vegetables a day because it's the combination of nutrients that seems to be

A new study has estimated how much digital information is zipping around.The report, assembled by the technology research firm IDC, sought to account for all the ones and zeros that make up photos, videos, e-mail, Web pages, instant messages, phone calls and other digital content cascading through our world today. The researchers assumed that an average digital file gets replicated three times.Add it all up and IDC determined that the world generated 161 billion gigabytes (161 exabytes) of digital information last year.That's like 12 stacks of books that each reach from the Earth to the sun.

South America's winding Amazon River flows in an easterly direction across the continent, dumping water into the Atlantic Ocean. But in eons past, it flowed from east-to-west and, for a time, in both directions at once, a new study finds.About 100 million years ago, during the middle of the Cretaceous Period when dinosaurs still walked the Earth, the continents of South America and Africa broke apart. The fissure created a raised highland along the east coast of South America, which tilted the Amazon's flow, sending water and sediment rushing toward the center of the continent ..The new finding