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Social isolation 'worsens cancer'

Posted by: marilena on 30 Sep 09 10:22:53 - Source: news.bbc.co.uk
Social isolation may make cancer more deadly, US research on mice suggests.
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Woman undergoes face transplant in Cleveland

Posted by: marilena on 17 Dec 08 14:03:02 - Source: www.latimes.com
Surgeons at the Cleveland Clinic replace about 80% of her face with skin and muscles harvested from a cadaver. It's the most extensive such operation ever performed and the first in the U.S.
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Astronomers find a planet denser than lead

Posted by: marilena on 7 Oct 08 08:11:35 - Source: blogs.discovermagazine.com
Planet found that has about the same diameter of Jupiter, but has 21.6 times Jupiter’s mass. That makes it denser than lead.
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What Will the Collider Tell Us?

Posted by: marilena on 10 Sep 08 09:45:30 - Source: www.newsweek.com
Flipping the ON switch on history\'s biggest and most expensive experiment
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LHC goes live today!

Posted by: marilena on 10 Sep 08 07:53:38 - Source: blogs.discovermagazine.com
Could this be the end of the world as we know it? We'll find out soon enough!
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This Pill Will Change Your Life

Posted by: kyriakos on 28 Aug 08 12:10:47 - Source: www.popsci.com
In the not-so-distant future, these six drugs--already in the works--will change how we live, and even how we die
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Women DON'T have a higher pain threshold than men

Posted by: kyriakos on 26 Aug 08 09:58:20 - Source: www.dailymail.co.uk
It has always been assumed that women's bodies give them a higher pain threshold than men, to help them cope with the agony of childbirth. But a study suggests the opposite is true.
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New gene technique 'stops HIV in its tracks'

Posted by: kyriakos on 8 Aug 08 14:39:12 - Source: www.independent.co.uk
HIV can be stopped dead in its tracks using a revolutionary technique for "silencing" genes, a study has shown.
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Partial eclipse will be seen in Cyprus

Posted by: kyriakos on 28 Jul 08 09:36:39 - Source: www.famagusta-gazette.com
Friday, August 1 is a red-letter day for eclipse enthusiasts in Cyprus.
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Animal feed to blame for Cyprus alfatoxin outbreak

Posted by: kyriakos on 24 Jul 08 11:57:39 - Source: www.famagusta-gazette.com
The investigation into the aflatoxin contamination in Cyprus points the finger of blame at the process of introducing infected animal feed to farmers
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Scientific American: Why Batman Could Exist

Posted by: kyriakos on 15 Jul 08 12:57:19 - Source: www.sciam.com
Batman is the most down-to-earth of all the superheroes. He has no special powers from being born on a distant world or bitten by a radioactive spider.
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Sex curse found at ancient Cyprus site

Posted by: kyriakos on 12 Jul 08 15:21:57 - Source: www.abc.net.au
An unexpected sexual curse has been uncovered by archaeologists at Cyprus's old city kingdom of Amathus, on the island's south coast near Limassol
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Συστατικό του καρπουζιού «δρα όπως το Viagra»...

Posted by: kyriakos on 4 Jul 08 12:17:21 - Source: www.phileleftheros.com
Μια μεγάλη μερίδα καρπουζιού μπορεί να τονώσει την κυκλοφορία του αίματος περίπου όπως το Viagra, ανακοίνωσαν Αμερικανοί γεωπόνοι.
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Flip-Flops Bad For Feet

Posted by: kyriakos on 25 Jun 08 10:00:24 - Source: www.livescience.com
Researchers at Auburn University have found that wearing flip-flops alters the way one walks, changing the gait in subtle ways that can lead to serious sole, heel and ankle problems.
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Everyday Inventions that experts said they'd never work

Posted by: kyriakos on 20 Jun 08 10:11:53 - Source: www.null-hypothesis.co.uk
From air travel to computers, experts turned down all inventions.
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Synthetic diamonds are now practically indistinguishable from mined diamonds

Posted by: kyriakos on 18 Jun 08 09:45:11 - Source: www.smithsonianmag.com
Lab-grown gemstones are now practically indistinguishable from mined diamonds. Scientists and engineers see a world of possibilities; jewelers are less enthusiastic.
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Intelligent people 'less likely to believe in God'

Posted by: kyriakos on 13 Jun 08 11:16:35 - Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Professor Richard Lynn, emeritus professor of psychology at Ulster University, said many more members of the "intellectual elite" considered themselves atheists than the national average.
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Ovulation moment caught on camera

Posted by: kyriakos on 12 Jun 08 12:48:02 - Source: news.bbc.co.uk
A human egg has been filmed in close-up emerging from the ovary for the first time, captured by chance during a routine operation.
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How Much Sleep Do You Really Need?

Posted by: kyriakos on 11 Jun 08 13:57:33 - Source: news.yahoo.com
Studies show that people who sleep between 6.5 hours and 7.5 hours a night, as they report, live the longest. And people who sleep 8 hours or more, or less than 6.5 hours, they don't live as long.
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Climate change paints bleak picture for Cyprus

Posted by: kyriakos on 9 Jun 08 09:39:44 - Source: www.famagusta-gazette.com
Environment Commissioner Charalambos Theopemptou has said that according to scientific information, summers in the Mediterranean region in the year 2060 will be six weeks longer than they are now.
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