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How many of you ever imagined that the innocent fruit smoothies could possibly present a very serious hidden danger? No, it's not a deadly chemical hidden in the ice cream or yogurt that go into the smoothie itself, but rather the effect such drinks have on our teeth. Recent studies conducted in Britain have sho... |
20 May 2008
08:21 GMT |
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The Australian OLPC office has no plan of joining mother company's intentions of switching to Windows XP. According to a news report published by tech website ITWire, two of the five OLPC Australia executives are active members in the local Linux community. Both board director Jeff Waugh and his partner Pia Wau... |
9 May 2008
06:32 GMT |
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The One Laptop Per Child charity organization led by Nicholas Negroponte seemed to have terminated its business with Linux in favor of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. The move raised waves of protests among open source developers, and the very purpose of the organization was questioned. The large number... |
7 May 2008
06:31 GMT |
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Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child charity project has just got a new president and chief operating officer. The move is part of the restructuring and reshaping policy announced in mid-March, a policy that forced many of the executives involved in the project to pack their bags to brighter ideals.Accordi... |
5 May 2008
06:30 GMT |
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Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child charity organization is strolling towards replacing its currently existing Linux-based Sugar operating system with Microsoft's Windows XP. Negroponte's concern towards Microsoft has triggered a wave of complaints from the company's employees that topped w... |
24 April 2008
06:56 GMT |
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Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child charity foundation lost another executive on their way to delivering inexpensive and user-friendly educational notebooks. Walter Bender, the former President of Software and Content, has just resigned.The official explanation for Bender's departure is that there ha... |
22 April 2008
05:39 GMT |
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Geckos are really some of the most amazing lizards. They are mostly known for their ability to climb vertical walls and walk on ceilings using their adhesive toes. The secret behind this amazing ability lies in an unique quick-release mechanism that permits geckos to strongly adhere to a surface, but then detach with... |
18 February 2008
03:39 GMT |
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And not just by eating it, but by blowing up in your face as well! What are the chances of that ever happening? Well, I was just about to say none, but the fact is that a sugar explosion happened a week ago at the Imperial Sugar Company refinery in Port Wentworth, killing six people, injuring seventeen and severely d... |
14 February 2008
09:36 GMT |
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80 computers, 320 CPUs of power, 640 Gigabytes of RAM and 96 terabytes of hard disk memory. If that's not music to your years, I don't know what music is. Don't be fooled by the name though, the SUGAR complex will be the new supercomputer complex which will help physicists at the California Institute o... |
11 February 2008
04:43 GMT |
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Drinking only "zero" beverages and gorging only on the "lightest" yogurts and diet bars, and still having a seal line? No wonder, as a new research published in the journal "Behavioral Neuroscience" has revealed that rats fed on artificial sweetener put more weight compared to sugar-fed rats, a finding challenging c... |
11 February 2008
04:05 GMT |
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Life is subdued to a continuous development. With each new generation, advantages increase, while disadvantages are removed, and new possibilities are exploited. An ancestral species forms several new species and can disappear, or to survive in its original form adapting to its own niche in the system. The result is ... |
28 January 2008
10:11 GMT |
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Telepathy sounds like something out of the freak show, or SF stories. But, this trait has been found to be displayed by the DNA molecules. DNA double helixes can recognize fitting sequences from a distance and then join together, without the implication of enzymes or other molecules. Researchers had not suspected tha... |
28 January 2008
03:32 GMT |
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Doctors say that chewing sugar-free gum after a meal decreases mouth's bacterial acidity, the main factor involved in tooth decay, due to the abundant salivation, diluting and neutralizing the acid. And here comes the shock: a new research published in the "British Medical Journal" shows that exaggerating with t... |
11 January 2008
05:31 GMT |
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We associate energy with movement, but any living organism needs energy for fueling life processes, even long ones, like growth and reproduction. On Earth, the whole life energy comes from the Sun. Plants capture the Sun's energy, animals eat plants as food. Plants can store the sun energy in chemicals. The othe... |
3 January 2008
10:38 GMT |
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"We are what we eat". The food we eat has various chemicals with different functions: some deliver "building blocks" for our body components (bones, muscles, hair, teeth, nails) and repairing material. Others come with energy or eliminate toxins. That's why the diet must be balanced, a fact reflected in the ove... |
28 December 2007
14:16 GMT |
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If you think that human evolution has stopped, you're extremely wrong: in fact, it has just sped up! And people on various continents are just turning more different. "Humans are evolving rapidly, and that the pace of change has accelerated a lot in the last 40,000 years, especially since the end of the Ice Age ... |
7 December 2007
04:48 GMT |
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Apparently, carnivorous mothers give birth to boys and chocolate-addicted ones to girls. But even if seems funny, what a mother eats seems to really bias the sex of her offspring, as revealed by a new research published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Low blood-sugar amounts seem to boost the birth of females.... |
28 November 2007
02:57 GMT |
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Metabolism is the process through which the body processes and burns the nutrients. Even the basal metabolism (when the person is resting) varies among different individuals. In the end, the balance between storing and burning defines the way we look. 1. Miserly type. It characterizes individuals that can store with ... |
24 November 2007
04:53 GMT |
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Columbus and his crew were the first Europeans to taste the pineapple in the Caribbean in 1493. The king of Spain liked its taste very much and the fruit was spread worldwide; by 1548 it was already cultivated in the Philippines. By the 18th century, pineapple was considered a luxury fruit on the European royal table... |
23 November 2007
05:36 GMT |
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1. Specialists say that if during an accident you lose a tooth, do not throw it. Your chances of reimplanting the teeth can be of 50 % if you go to the dentist 30 minutes after the 'incident'. Try to stay calm, as much as possible. Hold the tooth by the corona and rinse it gently with warm water. Don't... |
20 November 2007
13:41 GMT |
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No sex, alcohol and other risk factors have been proven to cause a rapid development in prostate cancer, the ultimate blow that can 'ruin' a man's sex life. Too few recover after surgery without remaining impotent. Now, a research led at Duke Prostate Center and published in the online journal Prostate... |
14 November 2007
06:01 GMT |
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Could you imagine your life without pumping every day countless amounts of sugar in your body? If not, you should at least know that it can affect your sexuality: high levels of fructose and glucose entering your blood can deactivate the gene controlling the amounts of sex hormones in both men and women, as revealed ... |
10 November 2007
05:16 GMT |
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Scientists have been studying biofuels and ways to extract it from biomass for years, but the search for such fuels has accelerated in the last few years as a result of US' dependency on foreign oil.There is now an accentuated need for biofuel and new ways to produce it. Annual Meetings of the American Society o... |
6 November 2007
06:13 GMT |
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Those guys hanging out at the pub with their buddies till morning do not avoid the company of their wives, they are just rehydrating. The Spanish got it right: a new research made at the Granada University points that after a game of football or rugby, a beer is more efficient in rehydrating the body than water, even... |
6 November 2007
05:18 GMT |
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This is the first chemical to which we get addicted. What would we do without sugar? Many types of dishes and sweets should be changed. Today, eating sugar is part of the daily menu, and the stuff is delivered by a worldwide industry, driving millions of people from Cuba to India, Brazil to Africa and Australia. Suga... |
30 October 2007
16:01 GMT |
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1.Hummingbirds are found only in Americas, from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego (in the southern tip of South America). Half of the hummingbird species (160) live in the Amazon forest. The northernmost species is the rufous hummingbird (Selasphorus rufus), the only species that reaches Alaska. The southernmost species is ... |
23 October 2007
14:06 GMT |
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The secret of being smart all day has been found: eat the right cereals for breakfast, like whole-grain barley or rye and your blood sugar will be constant all day, as a result of a mix of low GI (glycemic index) and indigestible sugars encountered in some grains. The research made at Lund University reveals that eve... |
25 September 2007
03:08 GMT |
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As the general computer industry trend is to find cleaner and greener ways to power up hardware parts and make them use as little energy as possible, Sony and a number of other companies are researching the ultimate green battery that runs on sugar and relies on microbes and enzymes to transform the fuel into usable ... |
24 August 2007
10:02 GMT |
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You get fat by only drinking water, but bats can burn sugar faster than top-class athletes, having the fastest sugar-burning metabolism amongst all mammals on Earth. This is the result of a research made on American nectar-feeding bats (encountered in tropical America): within minutes of stopping for sugar-rich flowe... |
9 August 2007
05:19 GMT |
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Craving for sugar seems to be a much more serious problem than you thought. If you believe that craving for cocaine in the case of addiction to this drug is terribly difficult to bear, you'd better find out the result of a research team at the University of Bordeaux in France. "[W]hen rats were allowed to choose... |
3 August 2007
14:06 GMT |
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Granular materials are widely found both in nature and in industrial applications and although we use them every day, theoretical physicists and manufacturers are still puzzled by their weird behavior. Although they are solid, they refuse to comply to the laws of physics that govern the movement of solids and they d... |
24 July 2007
06:34 GMT |
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For a self conscious couch potato, light variant of the sodas (the so-called sugar-free types) would be the solution against the sumo belly and all its accompanying metabolic syndrome issues, like diabetes and cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, elevated levels of the blood triglycerides (saturated fats) and... |
24 July 2007
02:55 GMT |
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The invisible villain attaches to your brain cells while you're smoking. But how does the state of high invade a smoker's brain? It appears that sugar is the cause. A new research made at University of Southern California reveals the role of sugar as the hinge that opens a gate in the cell membrane and info... |
23 July 2007
02:58 GMT |
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They advertise for energy drinks as if the drinks themselves were the ones pulling the weights when you go to the gym. Hold on! Besides pure advertisement, some of these chemicals can after all induce the contrary effect of what you really want. That's because the active ingredient in energy drinks, varying in d... |
9 July 2007
14:51 GMT |
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The orange skin that increases with each passing year is a sign of aging. If you're a woman, you have 90 % more probabilities to have cellulite than a man has. This is because cellulite is the product of a hormonal cocktail, fat, bad circulation, liquid retention, genetics and lifestyle. Depending on the predomi... |
18 June 2007
14:16 GMT |
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No sugar food, no body fat. This is the principle of the high-fat, low-carbohydrate Atkins diet. But how does this work?Two new researches link this to a hormone that regulates fat burning when the body turns from carbohydrates to its own fat reserves for getting energy, a discovery crucial for treating metabolism co... |
7 June 2007
15:46 GMT |
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It's easy to see on a product pack its nutritional content, but can you know this when it's about meat? And especially the fat content?Now, New Zealand food industry use a breakthrough x-ray based technology to ensure that beef exported to make American beefburgers obeys the US fat content regulations. Thes... |
4 June 2007
03:35 GMT |
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It seems that what you mustn't eat when you try to lose weight is linked to your insulin levels. This is the conclusion of a research made on 73 obese young adults. "A major question in the field of obesity is, why can some people do well on conventional weight-loss diets, while others on the very same diets do ... |
28 May 2007
04:54 GMT |
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No meal is complete without a little bit of sugar. In fact, adding a little sugar even to a salty meal enhances its taste. By 2020, you could add sugar to your car to make it more efficient in producing hydrogen.This is not a sci-fi theme and even the U.S. Department of Energy's 2006 Advance Energy Initiative p... |
23 May 2007
04:30 GMT |
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After a long run in the heat, the only thing you can think about is a bottle of cold water that you'd just drink at once. Water is refreshing, but is it healthy in this case?W. Larry Kenney, Penn State professor of physiology and kinesiology, says a sports drink would be more appropriate. "Sports drinks have ext... |
12 May 2007
06:22 GMT |
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You ingest a peanut and get fat while the skinny dude in front of you eats five hamburgers and stays just as slim as always...Well, I don't know if it's really "a peanut" that you eat, since quite often you fell like "devastating" a bag of potato chips or a huge chocolate bar and not an apple or an orange. ... |
12 May 2007
05:24 GMT |
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As you might have already heard, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Association is a non-profit organization set up by some faculty members of the MIT Media Lab that aims to develop low-cost (US$ 100) laptops and distribute them among children all over the world, especially to those in less developed countries, through the... |
26 April 2007
06:44 GMT |
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No Cola or no bacon?Hard to say ...Staying out of junk food is the hardest drudgery. A team at Stanford University Medical School made a year-long research comparing four popular diets, from low-carb to low-fat, and the Atkins resulted to be the best. Thus, in the end, meat lovers laugh at vegetarians. The research i... |
12 April 2007
08:54 GMT |
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After you get drunk to the bone, you are surely craving for sweets the next day. Well, researchers led by Francisco Sanchez from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel) remained open-mouthed when they found that Egyptian fruit bats, close but smaller relatives of the huge flying foxes, also crave for specific... |
2 April 2007
07:15 GMT |
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A new Australian research on schoolchildren who consume fruit juices and fruit drinks showed they are more prone to be overweight or obese than those who don't. The Deakin researchers investigated a sample of 2184 children, 4 to 12 years old from the Barwon South Western region. The team discovered that children... |
30 March 2007
06:28 GMT |
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Water pollution is a large set of adverse effects upon water bodies such as lakes, rivers, oceans and groundwater caused by human activities. Although natural phenomena such as volcanoes, storms, earthquakes etc. also cause major changes in water quality and the ecological status of water, these are not deemed to b... |
30 March 2007
05:47 GMT |
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