It may seem silly: do pigeons represent a dangerous nuisance? The answer is: yes. Their dejections ruin monuments and statues. But it is more than that: they carry extremely virulent germs. Since Medieval Ages, the pigeons started to inhabit the European cities, where they easily found food in wastes discarded by hum... |
4 April 2008
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You can't wait for that dream holiday when you just lay on the beach and catch sun. But watch out: too much wet sand or swimming in the sea can harm your stomach. A team at the University of Florida has discovered that by spending more time on the wet sand or in the water you increase the chances of getting germ... |
4 February 2008
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There are researchers who calculated how much time we spend on the toilet: months or even years. But "Mr Toilet", Sim Jae-duck, a South Korean National Assembly representative, has chosen to spend his life in one. Located in Suwon, 40 km (25 mi) from Seoul, there is the world's first "Toilet House", named "Haewo... |
22 November 2007
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Well, many things have a nasty smell, but what about that nasty thing smelling like vanilla? If not the whole thing, at least part of it...A team at the state-run International Medical Center of Japan has managed, in co-operation with Sekisui Chemical Co, to extract vanilla scent from cow dung. "A one-hour heating an... |
6 October 2007
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What in the world could be more comfortable that the flushing toilet? Still, some researchers fear that this will trigger an environmental disaster in the western world. More ecological toilets, like the "squat toilet" in which one squats over a hole dug in the ground, are common in parts of Asia, Europe and Africa, ... |
1 August 2007
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This is the "Bigfoot" of Australia. But unlike the North American beast, this animal was real, exterminated by people: the Tasmanian tiger or thylacine. Now Australian researchers are on their way to investigate 50-year-old animal droppings in their search for solving one of the nation's great mysteries: is the ... |
29 June 2007
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The feces of most vegetarian mammals are greenish, due to the plant's green pigment called chlorophyll, which cannot be digested. Birds' feces are whitish, as they are covered in dry urine, made of white uric salts. When carnivores eat bones, their feces can result whitish due to the mineral salts from the ... |
8 June 2007
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