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Drowsiness While Driving Can Be Just As Fatal As Drunkenness
Driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs is known to increase the chances of causing an accident.For instance, marijuana can impair drivers’ reaction time.But what about drowsiness? As many as a...
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Your New Years Resolution Diet Is Doomed To Fail
It is generally accepted that those who overindulge in stilton and roast potatoes during December will want to diet come January.By the time the twelfth day rolls around most of us are feeling the...
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What Mars Would Look Like With Oceans And Life
What if instead of dust and rocks, our planetary neighbor Mars were a bit more lush? What if it had oceans, an Earth-like atmosphere, and green life coating its land?These are the questions Kevin Gill,...
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Growing Food In The Desert Could Solve The World's Food Problems
The scrubby desert outside Port Augusta, three hours from Adelaide, is not the kind of countryside you see in Australian tourist brochures. The backdrop to an area of coal-fired power stations, lead...
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At-Home DNA Testing Kit Saves Woman's Life
For the price of a night out, individuals can learn key elements of their genetic composition from new DNA testing kit for booming private genetic testing market.For Carole Kushnir, a test that she...
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These Deep Sea Vents Hint At The Origins Of Life
This article was originally published on Futurity and has been re-printed here under the Creative Commons license.At the origin of life, the first protocells must have needed a vast amount of energy to...
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A Vibrating Fork Might Help You Lose Weight
The HAPIfork claims that it will help you lose weight by vibrating if you're eating too fast.Using an electronic sensor, the HAPIfork monitors how fast a user is eating and then alerts them if it is...
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13 Reasons People Think The Number 13 Is Unlucky
This is going to be a very trying year for people with Triskaidekaphobia, also known as the fear of the number 13.While the superstitious folks afflicted with this problem can easily stay home on...
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Listening To Elton John Can Make You A Safer Driver, Study Finds
The choice of CD for a long car journey has long been the cause of family friction.But new research has revealed that which song drivers listen to can even influence how safe they are on the...
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Fossil Of 244-Million-Year-Old Giant Carnivore Discovered
Newfound fossils of a giant dolphin-shaped reptilian predator are now shedding light on how the world recovered after the most devastating mass extinction in history, researchers say.This prehistoric...
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2012 Was America's Hottest Year On Record By A Landslide
WASHINGTON (AP) — America set an off-the-charts heat record in 2012.A brutal combination of a widespread drought and a mostly absent winter pushed the average annual U.S. temperature last year up to...
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A Monster Black Hole 'Burp' Was Just Discovered
Astronomers have discovered what appears to be colossal belch from a massive black hole at the heart of a distant galaxy.The outburst was 10 times as bright as the biggest star explosion, scientists...
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7 Reasons To Go On A Plant-Based Diet
Why would I give up meat? Going plant-based doesn't necessarily mean you have to.Our definition of a plant-based diet allows for modest amounts of fish and lean meat. But more importantly, choosing a...
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The 50 Greatest Inventions From Britain
Here is the Radio Times list of the 50 greatest British inventions, in chronological order.Reflecting telescope: Isaac Newton, 1668Seed drill: Jethro Tull, 1701Marine chronometer: John Harrison,...
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Scientists Finally Figured Out What Turns Parkinson's Patients Into...
Compulsive shopping, gambling and cleaning associated with Parkinson's disease is actually caused by the drugs used to treat the disease, researchers have found.Parkinson's disease, the...
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The Most Depressing Day Of 2013 Is Coming
Empty bank accounts, vomiting bugs, failed detoxes: the post-holiday comedown is a condition well known to marriage counsellors. But there may be a reason to cheer up.How many of you arrived...
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'Zombie' Planet Shocks Scientists With Wild Orbit
The unbalanced orbit of a so-called "zombie planet" in a dusty star system has astronomers struggling to explain the exoplanet's behavior.New observations of the planet Fomalhaut b by the Hubble Space...
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Drinking Diet Soda Linked To Depression
Calorie-free drinks are not necessarily risk free.A new study has found a link between drinking diet soda or diet fruit drinks and an increased risk of depression.The study researchers analyzed...
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Obama Might Actually Host A Climate Summit In His Second Term
Barack Obama may intervene directly on climate change by hosting a summit at the White House early in his second term, environmental groups say.They say the White House has given encouraging signals to...
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Why Plant-Based Diets Are All The Rage
There was a time when vegetarianism was one thin euphemism away from just plain weird. Subsisting on plants seemed like some kind of kooky California fad or college experimentation and was discussed...
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