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The People Of Ancient Chile Had A Serious Nicotine Habit
The hair of mummies from the town of San Pedro de Atacama in Chile reveals the people in the region had a nicotine habit spanning from at least 100 B.C. to A.D. 1450.Additionally, nicotine consumption...
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Controversial Theory Poses A New Explanation Of Why Women Are More Likely To...
Women may be more "hetero-flexible," or be primarily attracted to men with some same sex attraction, because same-sex behavior allowed women to raise their children with other women, a new study has...
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NASA Has Turned Off A Galaxy-Hunting Space Telescope
NASA has turned off a decade-old space telescope, a year after loaning the orbiting instrument to a university that operated it with private funding.The space agency decommissioned its Galaxy Evolution...
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Historical Nuclear Bomb Tests Could Fight Illegal Elephant Poaching
Bomb tests generations ago could indirectly help fight illegal poaching of African elephants, new research shows.Nuclear weapons tested in the atmosphere in the 1950s and '60s spread a radioactive...
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Older Couples Deal With Arguments By Ignoring Them
When older couples argue, they're more likely to handle the conflict by changing the subject, a new study finds.The study tracked 127 middle-age (defined as age 40–50) and elderly long-term married...
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Pre-marital and casual sex have, in many ways, become societal norms. When young people take abstinence pledges, they are seemingly in a minority. As unrestricted sex becomes more prominent or, at the...
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The Worst Restaurant Meal In The US Has Two Weeks Worth Of Trans Fats
The worst restaurant meal in America is not a burger and fries, but fried fish and dough, one advocacy group says.Out of all the unhealthy food choices out there, a meal at the fast-food seafood...
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Painkiller Overdose Deaths Are Up 400% In Women
The percentage of U.S. women overdosing on prescription painkillers has increased sharply in recent years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Between 1999 and 2010, the...
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The Owner Of These Giant Teeth Had An Embarrassingly Weak Bite
More than 3 million years ago, a strange pouched predator stalked South America with fangs bigger than those of the fearsome saber-toothed cat.But a new study shows that despite it's imposing dental...
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A Minnesota Couple Found A 33-Pound Meteorite In Their Corn Field
For 40 years, University of Minnesota professor Calvin Alexander has been contacted by people who think they've found meteorites.They call, write, and come in to the lab of the curator of meteorites...
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Haunting Photo Sent From Fallen Firefighter Shows Last Look At The 19-Man...
Moment captured in texted photo shows Hotshot crew shortly before they diedYARNELL, Ariz. (AP) — It may be the last image of members of an Arizona fire crew before they died, overcome by flames.The...
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Pot Smokers Are Chemically Prone To Slack Off
The stereotype of pot smokers as lackadaisical loafers is supported by new research: People who smoke marijuana regularly over long periods of time tend to produce less of a chemical in the brain that...
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STUDY: People With A Lot Of Self-Control Are Happier Than The Rest Of Us
PROBLEM:"Among humankind's most valuable assets" is self-control, according to Wilhelm Hofmann and his team of researchers at the University of Chicago.They define it as "the ability to override or...
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Scientists Have A Long Tradition Of Eating Their Research Subjects
A tube of saggy, bacteria-filled flesh, the deep-sea tubeworm displays a uniquely unappetizing appearance. But marine biologist Peter Girguis and his colleagues tried a morsel anyway."We just took off...
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Two Men Are Free Of HIV After Bone Marrow Transplants
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Two HIV-positive patients in the United States who underwent bone marrow transplants for cancer have stopped anti-retroviral therapy and still show no detectable sign of...
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Extreme Solar Storms Could Destroy Earth's Power Grids
Tools on the ground are helping scientists learn more about the threat solar eruptions on the sun pose to life as we know it on Earth.Experts with the British Geological Survey (BGS) have started...
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A New Report Suggests That The Best Thing To Do With Carbon Emissions Is To...
In a policy address last week, President Barack Obama made the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States a key priority in the nation's fight against climate change.Now, a newly...
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Military Sonar Is Causing Mass Whale Strandings
Whales flee from the loud military sonar used by navies to hunt submarines, new research has proven for the first time. The studies provide a missing link in the puzzle that has connected naval...
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5 'Health Foods' That Aren't Actually Healthy
Katherine Tallmadge is a registered dietitian, author of "Diet Simple: 195 Mental Tricks, Substitutions, Habits & Inspirations" (Lifeline Press, 2011), and a frequent national commentator on...
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Fireworks And The Moon Dazzle In Spectacular Photo
Fourth of July fireworks celebrations will light up the sky across the United States tonight, but one veteran astrophographer in Italy has already captured a dazzling view of an explosive night lights...
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