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The increasing melting of the permafrost, the frozen ground of the north, due to the global warming, is exposing increasingly more frozen mammoths. Now, even calves. In May 2007, a complete frozen body of a 6-year-old mammoth calf was found in the Yamalo-Nenetsk region of the Arctic Russia. On September 27, 2004, the... |
22 March 2008
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HIV does not kill by itself. It just leaves humans defenseless against other killers. About 50% of all HIV-positive African adults die of Salmonella infection, a disease that otherwise is treated after a seven-day bout of diarrhea. A new research made at UC Davis School of Medicine and published in the "Nature Medici... |
25 March 2008
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The Neolithic (New Stone Age) was a period in the technological development of Homo sapiens that started at the end of the Ice Age, 10,000 years ago, and ended around the Mediterranean Sea and other areas about 5,500 years ago, when the Bronze Age started.It was the period when first human settlements appeared. Peopl... |
25 March 2008
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Nowadays, many people associate REM with the name of a rock band. But how many of you know that REM is actually an acronym for "rapid eye movement", defining a normal stage of sleep. REM sleep in adult humans normally comprises about one quarter of total sleep, meaning 90-120 minutes. During a normal night's sle... |
31 March 2008
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We do not know when genetics will insert cow genes in the breasts of the women, the dream of many men, but the first hybrid cow-human embryos and stem cells have already been obtained by British researchers led by Dr. Lyle Armstrong of Newcastle University. The research was presented to Israel's parliament last ... |
3 April 2008
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Thailand is the realm of sexual tourism, this is a well known fact. Sex for any orientation. The country is famous for its beauty contest of drag queens. And in such a sexually libertine country, some things seem to have escaped control. Thailand's Health Ministry has temporarily banned the performing of castrat... |
3 April 2008
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The data are gruesome. About 4 million people got infected with HIV in 2006 and another 3 million died of it. Until now, about 25 million people have died of AIDS and other 40 million people are infected with HIV worldwide, most of them in the Sub-Saharan Africa.A new report made by World Health Organization, UNICEF ... |
4 April 2008
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Scientists still debate if they are alive or not, but look what they can inflict in us (and this is just a selection of the most common ones):1. Flue is caused by a virus transmitted through air. The incubation lasts 1-2 days. The symptoms include fever, cough, loss of appetite, headaches. Ordinary flue can be treate... |
11 April 2008
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There are bacteria everywhere around us, and in infinite quantities. Some are good, some are neutral, but most people have in mind only the bad ones. 1. Tetanus is caused by the bacterium Clostridium tetani. It enters the body via an open wound and releases a powerful toxin, tetanospasmin. The incubation period lasts... |
14 April 2008
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No, toads do not cause warts (they are produced by viruses), nor scab, which is caused by a mite. But pet animals, like dogs and cats can transmit this parasite. Scabies is caused by the scab mite (Sarcoptes scabiei variety hominis), 0.3 to 0.9 mm long, which lives on the surface of the skin or beneath, feeding on de... |
14 April 2008
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