WTF? Alien SoupRabbit vibrator and other popular sex toys created for pleasure may be also very harmful for health. Such a conclusion was made by Greenpeace which had investigated levels of phthalates in sex toys.
Rabbit vibrator may cause serious damage to healthPhthalates are a chemical compound used to soften hard plastics into soft rubber and jelly. Derived [...]
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CANCUN, Mexico (AP) — He is called “Super Tonio,” and at a whopping birth weight of 14.5 pounds, the little fellow is causing a sensation in the Mexican resort of Cancun.
Cancun residents have crowded the nursery ward’s window to see Antonio Vasconcelos, who was born early Monday by Caesarean section. The baby drinks 5 [...]
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By Elliott Minor
Associated Press
MOODY AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. (AP) — The military calls its new weapon an “active denial system,” but that’s an understatement. It’s a ray gun that shoots a beam that makes people feel as if they are about to catch fire. Apart from causing that terrifying sensation, [...]
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By Robert Roy Britt
Senior Science Writer space.com
For years astronomers have known that the upper atmospheres of
Saturn and other giant planets are hotter than can be explained by absorbed sunlight. Today the mystery deepened.
The phenomenon has long been blamed on a mechanism similar to what creates the aurora, or Northern Lights on Earth. On Earth, [...]
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The grizzly man is back, and this time he’s ready to take on bullets and bombs.
Troy Hurtubise, the Hamilton-born inventor who became famous for his bulky bear-protection suit by standing in front of a moving vehicle to prove it worked, has now created a much slimmer suit that he hopes will soon be protecting Canadian [...]
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UK scientists have developed genetically modified chickens capable of laying eggs containing proteins needed to make cancer-fighting drugs.
The breakthrough has been announced by the same research centre that created the cloned sheep, Dolly.
The Roslin Institute, near Edinburgh, says it has produced five generations of birds that can produce useful levels of life-saving proteins in egg [...]
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Two NASA space probes that visited Mars 30 years ago may have found alien microbes on the Red Planet and inadvertently killed them, a scientist is theorizing.
The Viking space probes of 1976-77 were looking for the wrong kind of life, so they didn’t recognize it, a geology professor at Washington State University [...]
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Stem cells taken from the fluid that fills the womb in pregnancy could be used to create new brain, bone and liver cells, a study suggests.
US researchers successfully extracted the amniotic cells from samples, and then grew them in lab experiments.
Writing in Nature Biotechnology, they said it should be possible to harness the cells’ ability [...]
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FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP, New Jersey (AP) — Authorities were trying to identify a mysterious metallic object that crashed through the roof of a house in eastern New Jersey.
Nobody was injured when the golf ball-sized object, weighing nearly as much as a can of soup, struck the home and embedded itself in a wall Tuesday night. Federal [...]
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CHICAGO, Illinois (Reuters) — Physically abused and neglected children are much more likely to grow into severely depressed adults, a finding that researchers said on Monday points to an urgent need to test abused children for depression early on.
Physically abused children have a 59 percent increased risk of lifetime major depression compared with similar children [...]
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