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Smoking Triggers Depression A paper published in the latest issue of Journal of Psychiatric Research demonstrates that people who smoke tobacco are three times more likely to develop symptoms related to major depression disorder than those who do not smoke. The study was conducted on heavy smokers, a subgroup of the population that was demons...	24 April 2012 08:34 GMT

Texting Prevents People from Accepting New Words According to the conclusions of a new investigation, it would appear that people who use a lot of text messages are less likely to accept or interpret new words or phrases. The study that showed this correlation was carried out on college students. Scientists at the University of Calgary say that the findings apply...	21 February 2012 14:21 GMT

New Culprit Identified in the 'Great Dying' The Permian–Triassic (P-Tr) extinction event was the worst mass dying to affect life in all history. It occurred about 250 million years ago, and scientists thought they had a pretty good idea of the factors that caused it. Yet, a new study managed to identify a culprit that also played a role in the extinction...	7 January 2012 05:56 GMT

T. Rex Had the Nose of a Dog Though Tyrannosaurus Rex has been thoroughly studied for several years, very little was known about the way in which it used its sense of smell in "action." While some anthropologists claimed that the small size of the dinosaur's brain was clearly an obstacle in the way of the creature processing too much smell-...	29 October 2008 07:59 GMT

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