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Multivitamins Could Be Hindering Cancer Treatments
Late-stage cancer victims could be thwarting their own treatment by taking multivitamin pills containing antioxidants, the Nobel Prize winning scientist James Watson has warned.Nutritional supplements...
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'Doomsday Asteroid' Zooming Past Earth Today Is Bigger Than Thought
A European space telescope has captured new images of the huge asteroid Apophis, revealing that the potentially hazardous object is actually bigger than previously thought — and you have a chance to...
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Bad Weather Could Be Making Food Less Delicious
Vegetables, fruit and cereals harvested in the wake of recent poor weather could be less healthy and less tasty as a result of the downpours and lack of sunshine, a leading scientist has said.Levels of...
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Climate Change Could Turn Humans Into Hobbit-Like Creatures
It sounds far-fetched, but scientists increasingly believe that animals – including people – will get smaller if global warming runs out of control.Researchers studying fossils laid down in what is now...
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How Scientists Will Know They've Found Another Earth
The announcement this week that astronomers have found a potential alien world that could be the most Earth-like exoplanet yet is raising a big question: How will scientists confirm the existence of a...
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Hilarious #OverlyHonestMethods Tweets From Scientists
Scientists who are used to producing dozens of pages of jargon-filled research that a typical lay person would have no chance of understanding are distilling their words to 140 characters or less and...
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Horses Cure Internet Porn Addiction In South Korea
What do you do if your teenage daughter is addicted to videogames and Internet porn?For one South Korea family, the answer is to enroll your daughter in a horse riding therapy program.And by all...
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Archeologists Just Found A 2,000-Year-Old Treasure In A Black Sea Fortress
Residents of a town under siege by the Roman army about 2,000 years ago buried two hoards of treasure in the town's citadel — treasure recently excavated by archaeologists.More than 200 coins, mainly...
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Here's What Happens In Your Brain When You Have Déjà Vu
Have you ever experienced a sudden feeling of familiarity while in a completely new place?Or the feeling you’ve had the exact same conversation with someone before?This feeling of familiarity is, of...
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Why Americans Die Younger Than People In Other Wealthy Countries
Americans die younger than people in other wealthy countries — and the gap is getting worse, a new report shows.Men in the USA have shorter lives than men in 16 developed nations. American women also...
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Here's Why You Got The Flu Shot And Still Got Sick
You did your due diligence and received a flu vaccine this year.Congratulations, you’re one of the estimated 36 percent of people to have gotten the shot or nasal spray so far this flu season.So why...
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Humans Just Visited A Massive Penguin Colony For The First Time
The existence of a 9,000-strong colony of emperor penguins in East Antarctica has been confirmed by three people who visited it for the first time.Signs of the penguins were spotted by satellite, which...
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11 Great Stephen Hawking Quotes For His 71st Birthday
When Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with motor neurone disease at age 21, doctors thought he’d only survive a few more years. But the theoretical physicist defied the odds: Hawking turned 71 this week...
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It Was A Bad Idea For Watson The Supercomputer To Learn The Urban Dictionary
"OMG, that's a bullshit question. Eat one, you doofus."One as-yet-to-be-determined day in the future, computers will talk back to us in this manner.But, thankfully, it would appear that Computers with...
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Why Popcorn Pops
First off, popcorn isn’t just any old corn. It’s a cultivated strain of flint corn known as zea mays everta. Its kernel is also a whole grain—it consists of the bran (the hull or outer covering), the...
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Venus' Atmosphere Has Strange Magnetic 'Ropes'
Strange, newly discovered structures in Venus' atmosphere are redrawing scientists' perceptions of the planet's magnetic environment.The European Space Agency's Venus Express spacecraft spotted these...
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Astronomers Have Found The Largest Spiral Galaxy
Astronomers have crowned the universe's largest known spiral galaxy, a spectacular behemoth five times bigger than our own Milky Way.The title-holder is now NGC 6872, a barred spiral found 212 million...
View ArticleMeet The Hyrax, A Little Mammal With A Lot Of Stomachs
These swarthy little mammals hang out in Africa and the Middle East and have been blowing up in the news recently.They are in the family Procaviidae which is the only living family in...
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15 Bizarre Facts About The Human Body
1) The human brain uses about 20% of the entire body’s oxygen and caloric intake, despite accounting for only about 2% of an adult body’s mass.2) Around 85% of humans primarily breathe out of one...
View ArticleLunar Probe Got A Close Up Look At The Moon's Surface Before Crashing Into It
On December 14, as NASA's GRAIL mission came to a close, the mission's Ebb spacecraft flew above the northern hemisphere of the far side of the moon. The little spaceship -- a vehicle about the size of...
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