May 25, 2010 -- Consumer Reports Health has issued a new ranking of the six repellents it says are best to ward off mosquitoes and deer ticks. The magazine says it tested 10 insect repellents in an outside laboratory, where volunteers let deer ticks crawl on them and also exposed themselves to mosquitoes.
Keep Your Cool to Sleep Better. Your body temperature can affect how well you sleep. Scientists at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience in Amsterdam found that people slept better when their skin was slightly cooled.
Psychologists investigating how mental states affect body temperature say that when people lie their noses and the region around the inner corner of their eyes begin to warm up. 1  Disney's Pinnochio: The wooden boy's nose grew longer and longer if he ever told a lie. The team from the University of Granada, Spain, say this 'Pinocchio effect' is just one of a range of changes in body temperature related to feelings they have discovered using a technique called thermography.