Raw ginger can ease muscle pain after exerciseRaw ginger can ease muscle pain after exercise

Ginger can help ease muscle pain caused by exercise.

Taking a small amount of the tuber daily reduces the strain on muscles after a workout, says a new study.

Ginger has long been used as a remedy for nausea, but recent research has suggested it has other powerful properties.

One lab study showed powdered ginger could kill ovarian cancer cells, reports the Daily Mail.

In the latest experiments, American scientists gave participants two grams of raw ginger, or a similar amount of heat-treated ginger as some evidence shows heat treatment boosts the spice’s potency for 11 days.

A third group was given a placebo. They were then put through a series of testing arm exercises, according to the Journal of Pain.

The results showed that 24 hours after exercise, pain levels in the raw ginger-eating group were 25 percent lower than those on the placebo.

And in the heat-treated group, pain levels were 23 percent lower.

Hyper-texting teens more likely to have sex, drugs

Teenagers who text 120 times a day are nearly three-and-a-half times more likely to have sex and resort to alcohol and drugs.

Researchers said there was a definite link between excessive messaging and risky behaviour. They suggested that those who were ‘hyper-texting’ were likely to have lax or absent parents, reports the Daily Mail.

Lead author Scott Frank from Case Western Reserve University in Denver, US, said: “If parents are monitoring their kids’ texting and social networking, they’re probably monitoring other activities as well.”

The study was based on confidential surveys taken by 4,200 students at 20 high schools in Cleveland, according to a Case Western statement.

It revealed that around one in five students were hyper-texters and about one in nine were hyper-networkers — those who spend three or more hours a day on Facebook and other social networking websites. Both conditions were more common among girls.

Hyper-texters were also more likely to have been involved in physical fights, binge drinking and drugs.

Compared to the heavy texters, the hyper-networkers were not as likely to have had sex, but more likely to have been involved in other risky behaviours like drinking or fighting.

NASA discovery suggests aliens exist – even on Earth

NASA has made a stunning claim of an “astrobiology finding” that could suggest alien life exists – even on Earth.

The discovery could prove the theory of ’shadow’ creatures which exist here in hostile environments previously thought uninhabitable.

The ‘life as we don’t know it’ could even survive on hostile planets and develop into intelligent creatures such as humans if and when conditions improve.

Researchers will unveil the discovery of a microbe that can live in an environment previously thought too poisonous for any life-form, reports the Telegraph.

The bacteria has been found at the bottom of Mono Lake in California’s Yosemite National Park which is rich in arsenic – usually poisonous to life.

Somehow the creature uses the arsenic as a way of surviving and this ability raises the prospect that similar life could exist on other planets which do not have our benevolent atmosphere.

Lewis Dartnell, astrobiologist at the Centre for Planetary Sciences in London, said: “If these organisms use arsenic in their metabolism, it demonstrates that there are other forms of life than only those we knew of. They’re aliens, but aliens that share the same home as us.”

The space agency will announce the full extent of the findings at a press conference titled “astrobiology finding which will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life”.

Scientists have also estimated that life of some kind exists on hundred billion trillion Earth-like planets in space.