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Lead is quite a dangerous material, but it's worse without it. Its absence in electronic devices has ruined missiles and stopped from gadgets to communications satellites and forced nuclear power plants. The cause is to be found in the tiny splinters, called whiskers, that develop by themselves from tin solder p... |
8 October 2007
07:05 GMT |
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Heterochromia is a condition best recognized by the different coloring of one's eyes, hair or skin. The most common type is heterochromia iridis or heterochromia iridium, where the irises can either have an entirely different hue from one another (complete heterochromia) or only differently discolored spots (par... |
4 October 2007
14:51 GMT |
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Bad sleep is worse than low cognitive abilities, weight gain, bad sex and car crashes. A team from the University of Warwick, and University College London, has discovered that less sleep doubles your chances of dying from cardiovascular disease. But too much sleep also doubles the risk of death. The research was mad... |
25 September 2007
05:36 GMT |
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There are freaks paying big sums of money for silicon injections that allegedly help them develop huge genitalia. Some got it naturally, cost-free and really unwittingly. It's about elephant people, patients with elephantiasis, a parasite disease induced by worms called filariasis, that block the lymphatic vesse... |
24 September 2007
06:07 GMT |
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1. Elephant people. Elephantiasis is a parasite disease caused by worms called filariasis, that block the lymphatic vessels. When the lymph vessels cannot be drained, the accumulated liquid induces changes into the surrounding tissues translated into grossly enlarged or swollen arms, legs, breasts and genitalia. Ther... |
15 September 2007
13:16 GMT |
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HIV, syphilis or gonorrhea may sound more familiar for you, because these STDs (sexually transmitted diseases) are severe, but chlamydia, also called the "Silent Epidemic" (as in women, it may not induce any symptoms and will linger for months or years before being detected), is the most widespread STD. Now a team at... |
13 September 2007
14:06 GMT |
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There isn't any other way which is more efficient in impeding sexually transmissible diseases (STDs) like chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis and HIV. And it is the best solution for casual sex for impeding unwanted pregnancies. Still, convincing men and women to use condoms consistently and correctly is still a tric... |
11 September 2007
15:26 GMT |
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We all know why gamers play World of Warcraft... It's because the game features a virtual world that allows you to be whoever you want to be and really live a character's virtual life. While many see WoW as a method of social isolation, it turns out that the game can help scientists save lives. You might r... |
21 August 2007
06:16 GMT |
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If you are afraid of HIV, malaria, cancer or obesity induced diseases, you'd better find out what's the direct or indirect human killer worldwide: water, air and soil pollution. 40% of humans are exterminated by it."Such environmental degradation, coupled with the growth in world population, are major cause... |
15 August 2007
06:57 GMT |
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Surprisingly enough, there's no reason for laughing at all. The laughing gas or nitrous oxide, employed as an anesthetic for over 200 years in childbirth and emergency medicine can enhance pneumonia, fever and wound infections, as found by an Australian survey. The chemical's name comes from the euphoric se... |
10 August 2007
04:59 GMT |
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We know the case of that Romanian woman, Lucica Bunghez, with a tumor of 80 kg (176 pounds), heavier than her own body, but when the tumor actually hangs on the face, it does not need to grow that big to induce more severe effects. Huang Chuncai, 31, a Chinese man from the southern province of Hunan, has a crippling ... |
31 July 2007
14:41 GMT |
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During the European Dark Ages, cats were linked to black witchery and persecuted. They were regarded as harbingers of death. But Oscar is not from the Dark Ages, nor does it live in the hut of a hex, but still is a harbinger of death more precise than a Swiss clock. This cat has the unusual quality of forecasting whe... |
26 July 2007
15:16 GMT |
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HIV and syphilis represent the scarecrows of the sexually transmitted diseases in the US, but in fact the most widespread Americans STDs are chlamydia (over 2 million American people) and gonorrhea (or clap) (250,000 cases in the US). Both STDs were found by a government estimation more prevalent among teenagers, Af... |
19 July 2007
13:41 GMT |
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You may have heard about electric rays, electric eels, or electric catfish. But an electric man? The reports show that the 71 year-old Zhang Deke, a retired highway maintainer from Altay city of China's westernmost Xinjiang, is able to stand charges (and he charges himself) of 220V of electricity passing through... |
10 July 2007
14:46 GMT |
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Marijuana has been proven to be useful against nausea, and depression resulted from chemotherapy and other aggressive treatments against cancer or HIV. That's why in many countries, marijuana is permitted for medical purposes. Medical marijuana law exists also in eleven US states: Alaska, California, Colorado, H... |
2 July 2007
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Romance exists just for some people? Or does it change us all?A new research shows that men are really more preoccupied with sex than women are, but both genders can change their sexual attitude when involved in an intimate relationship touching their inner feelings. "Men experience a lot of pressure in our society t... |
14 June 2007
14:41 GMT |
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Our food is turning more and more artificial, the way our environment is and so does our body. A team at Georgetown University Medical Center and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has managed, for the first time, to develop a "bionic" ear that gave back hearing to a patient with von Hippel-Lindau disease. The b... |
11 June 2007
04:10 GMT |
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This is the way men are: they take care of their car more than of their health. That's why men die earlier than women: their lifespan is 7 years lower than that of the females. In the western world, 70 % of men aged 30-50 are overweight and 40 % are stressed. These are the 8 factors threatening men's life i... |
9 June 2007
07:00 GMT |
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In the XXIst century, there are still infections against which we are defenseless and which - despite all the medical advances - continue to kill millions of people every year. Poverty, war, lack of health infrastructure, immigration, trade, globalization contribute to the spread of the diseases. In the last years, o... |
2 June 2007
06:00 GMT |
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Researchers at the Minnesota Regional Sleep Disorders Center in Minneapolis have made for the first time a review and formal classification of all documented sleep-related disorders linked with abnormal sexual behaviors and experiences, called "sleepsex" or "sexsomnia"."It seems that more and more reports are surfaci... |
1 June 2007
16:11 GMT |
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Starting from the more common term IQ, the American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association (AARDA) has formulated the term "AQ" for Autoimmune Quotient. Just like the intelligence, AQ is also inherited. To assess your family's AQ, here are some clues:1. There are 23.5 million Americans with autoimmune diseases ... |
25 May 2007
05:36 GMT |
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About one in 100 men is affected by something you may have never heard of: Peyronie's disease. Peyronie's disease is a connective tissue disorder translated into the growth of fibrous plaques in the soft tissue of the penis and which induces throbbing erections and difficult sexual intercourse. Doctors usua... |
17 May 2007
16:46 GMT |
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A University of Colorado student managed to create an interesting project based on Google Maps that allows researchers to track the spread of the avian flu as well as the affected areas and the damages. The product helps the users to view the evolution of the disease using real time data from Google Earth, the downlo... |
2 May 2007
05:14 GMT |
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Angelina Jolie is, for the first time ever, at the center of a controversy concerning her health: various media outlets are reporting that the gorgeous actress might be dying because of some mysterious and fatal disease. Do not get alarmed yet, because all this is still in the speculation phase but, truth be told, a... |
28 April 2007
07:11 GMT |
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This hits directly in a male's prowess. Testicular cancer is an abnormal, quick, and invasive growth of cancerous cells in the testes, male's gonads.The precise factors that trigger testicular cancer are largely unknown, but several risk factors have been detected, like a medical history of undescended test... |
6 April 2007
08:42 GMT |
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YouTube was recently the only hope for life for a N.H. woman diagnosed with leukemia. Leigh Buckley, a 32-year-old mother of two, fights against leukemia since January when the doctors diagnosed her with this deadly disease. Since the terrible announcement was confirmed, Leigh's friends decided to organize two l... |
28 March 2007
06:20 GMT |
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Shallow-explaining creationists cling on an apparent paradox of the evolutionary theory: why do un-attractive persons exist?This mystery puzzled evolutionary scientists for years ... if "good" genes are favored by evolution, why are individuals so different? The "lek paradox", that sexually-selecting species like hum... |
28 March 2007
06:05 GMT |
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Cannibalism can look odd by human standards, but in fact it's widespread in the animal kingdom, and also amongst many human populations in the past, and survived till the XX th century in some areas of Central Africa, South America, New Guinea and Vanuatu. Because many infections pass from victims to consumers, ... |
24 March 2007
05:53 GMT |
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Everybody pursues happiness. But happiness is triggered not only by what we do, but also by what happens to us and by life circumstances (like marriage, divorce, or debilitating illness). Richard Lucas, associate professor of psychology at Michigan State University - after analyzing data gathered over the years moni... |
12 March 2007
05:59 GMT |
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