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A Surgeon Accidentally Infected Patients With Hepatitis B
A doctor with hepatitis B who performed joint replacement surgeries unknowingly passed the virus on to at least two of his patients, according to a new report.The report, issued by researchers at the...
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Check Out Jupiter And The Moon Hanging In The Christmas Sky
As darkness falls on Christmas night, check out the east-southeast sky. Shining brilliantly to the upper left of the bright, nearly full moon will be a silvery "star" with a steady glow.But that's not...
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Making Doorknobs Brass Could Stop The Spread Of Superbugs
Brass door knobs, handles and handrails should be brought back into common use in public places to help combat superbugs, according to scientists.Researchers have discovered that copper and alloys made...
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Parrots Are Picky When It Comes To Music
Parrots have musical tastes, with some preferring classical works and others pop tunes, scientists have found. But the creatures do not like dance music.They are known as great mimics, but now...
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11 Baller Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes
Neil deGrasse Tyson is America’s preeminent badass astrophysicist. He’s a passionate advocate for science, NASA and education. He’s also well-known for a little incident involving Pluto. The man holds...
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Boob Grabbing Study Is Getting Men All Excited
Teenage boys have been waiting for this news for years. According to a new study, squeezing breasts can prevent cancer. Yes, really.More specifically, the, ahem, fresh research from UC Berkeley and...
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IQ Tests Are Nothing More Than A Myth
For more than a century, intelligence quotient has been used to measure how smart people are, notes Nick Collins, science correspondent for the London Telegraph. He continues:“But now the scale has...
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The 12 Most Obvious Science Findings Of 2012
For scientists, an answer to a question, or solution to a problem, is not true until proven so.And sometimes that means revealing what mere mortals already knew, like, say the fact that getting to the...
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The Tidal Wave Of Childhood Obesity May Finally Be Receding
About one in three children in the U.S. are now overweight, and since the 1980s the number of children who are obese has more than tripled.But a new study of 26.7 million young children from low-income...
View ArticleIt Can Be Risky For Doctors To Prescribe 'Smart Drugs' To Healthy People
A new report warns that doctors should not prescribe psychiatric medication to healthy people who use them as “cognitive enhancers.” On the PsychCentral website, Rick Nauert writes:“Researchers from...
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Physicist Explains What Discovering The Higgs Boson Feels Like
Fabiola Gianotti was in mid-flow when her audience at Cern, the particle physics lab near Geneva, spotted the result they had so long hoped for amid the garish fonts of her presentation and rose to...
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An Ever-Changing Environment Could Be What Fostered Human Evolution
At Olduvai Gorge, where excavations helped to confirm Africa was the cradle of humanity, scientists now find the landscape once fluctuated rapidly, likely guiding early human evolution. These findings...
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A Drug Shortage Has Been Linked To Cancer Relapses In Children
A drug shortage led to cancer relapses in children and young adults in 2010, a consequence of the problem of drugs in short supply in the USA, a hospital analysis showed for the first time on...
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August's Record Sea Ice Melt Was Caused In Part By A Giant Arctic Cyclone
Months before Hurricane Sandy hurled the Atlantic Ocean into houses and cities along the East Coast, another record-breaking cyclone battered North America, helping push this year's Arctic sea ice to a...
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Bullies Aren't Popular With The Tweens
As the holidays call for good will toward men, new research indicates that kids who are kinder are also happier and more popular.This finding suggests that simple and brief acts of kindness might help...
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The Mysterious Origins Of The Term 'Booze'
The origin of the word “booze” is often mistakenly credited to E. C. Booz, who was a distiller in the United States in the 19th century.But the first references to the word “booze,” meaning “alcoholic...
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The Search For Life In One Antarctic Lake Has Been Abandoned
An ambitious plan by a team of British scientists at the Antarctic to look for life in a lake buried under almost two miles of ice was abandoned this week, after a decade of preparation and almost a...
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The Most Influential Energy And Climate Studies Of 2012
Ideas matter. Or at least Council on Foreign Relations fellows like to believe that: otherwise, we’d be wasting a lot of our time.With that in mind, I canvassed some of the smartest observers of the...
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An Invisible 'Knife' Slices With Focused Sound Waves
This article was originally published on Futurity and has been re-printed under the Creative Commons license.Engineers say the new lens can focus high-pressure sound waves to finer points than ever...
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Naps, Video Games And Alcohol Will Help You Sleep During The Most Stressful...
The longest night of the year may be behind us, but there’s plenty of winter ahead.Don’t despair, these short days and long nights have something for us that has been forgotten: the gift of rest and...
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