ScienceAlert on MSN

Paying Attention to Your Body Could Actually Change Your Immune Response

(Kinga Krzeminska/Moment/Getty Images) "Mind over matter" is a popular mindset for overcoming hardship. Tough it out. Ignore ...

Toyota Is Telling Mechanics to Hit Tundra Engines With a Hammer

Toyota technicians are employing a highly specialized plastic hammer test to diagnose whether recalled Tundra V6 engines contain fatal manufacturing debris.

Toyota Has a New Strategy to Test If Tundra Engines Need Replacing: Hit Them with a Hammer

It sounds crude, but there’s some serious science behind the unusual new diagnostic practice.
YAHOO!

Toyota Really Diagnoses Recalled V6 Engines By Hitting Them With A Hammer

Toyota has come up with an unusual way to determine whether some recalled Tundra engines need replacing. The procedure involves a dealership technician taking a plastic hammer and striking part of the ...
ScienceAlert on MSN

Our Survival Might One Day Rely on Nuking a 'City Killer' Asteroid. Scientists Just Tested Whether It'll Work

(Victor Habbick Visions/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) If an asteroid above a certain size ever gets close enough to ...

Is 10000 Steps A Day Actually Necessary? An Ad From 1965 And The Science You Need To Know

The 10,000 steps target came from a 1965 Japanese pedometer ad, not research. Here is how phones actually count steps, and ...
Indian Defence Review on MSN

Scientists folded a medical implant six times smaller, then watched it open up under the skin

Scientists stopped trying to make medical implants smaller and found a clever way to fit more under the skin while keeping insertion far less invasive.