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Feel free to indulge in that brownie, ladies – especially if the man you’ve got your eye on is worried about a work project. A study published this week in the journal PLOS ONE shows men who are psychologically stressed find heavier women attractive. The study Eighty-one heterosexual, white men, aged 18 to 42, were put into two groups. […]
The discovery of a 700-year-old skeleton in Bulgaria, which can be seen seen at the country’s National Museum of History, offers evidence that the fear of vampires is far older than Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The “vampire” was found entombed among church ruins in the Black Sea town of Sozopol (map) earlier in the month. The skeleton had been stabbed in […]
The Australian high court published its decision, but not the opinion, which will be given at later date regarding the tobacco packaging. When the new law is enforced, large tobacco companies will be forced to show graphic pictures of many possible health risks involved in continues smoking. Tobacco firms say law will only boost illicit trade while impinging on intellectual property. Tobacco kills nearly […]
The National Geographic has reported on a very rare find from Florida, a state plagued environmentally with released exotic pets that are damaging to the local ecosystems. Florida has a new attraction, a 17.7-foot-long (5.4-meter-long) Burmese python, the biggest snake ever found in the southeastern U.S. state, scientists say. What’s more, a necropsy on the euthanized python revealed she was […]
The Fukushima nuclear disaster may have had profound changes life around it, scientists say as they further investigate the mutant butterflies found near the site. Some of the butterflies had abnormalities in their legs, antennae, and abdomens, and dents in their eyes, according to the study published in Scientific Reports, an online journal from the […]
The Egyptian pyramids are ancient pyramid-shaped masonry structures located in Egypt. There are 138 pyramids discovered in Egypt as of 2008. Most were built as tombs for the country’s Pharaohs and their consorts during the Old and Middle Kingdom periods. The earliest known Egyptian pyramids are found at Saqqara, northwest of Memphis. The earliest among these is the Pyramid of Djoser (constructed 2630 BCE–2611 […]
A woman in China who went to Changsha Central Hospital was in for a surprise when she sought help for an itch in her left ear. Doctors removed a spider from her ear canal that had been living inside her for five days. The woman, referred to only as Ms. Lee, arrived at China’s Changsha Central Hospital […]
A teenager left with horrific facial injuries after being mauled by a polar bear on a school expedition to the Arctic has told how he believed he was going to die during the attack. Patrick Flinders defended himself by lashing out at the animal as it rampaged through a camp of young British explorers […]
It has been centuries since people used to bath twice a year or clean up themselves only for special occasions. With the growing industry there is water and cleaning products for everyone. Hand sanitizers, body washes, shampoos, millions of different scented soaps and wet wipes. Once was a luxury now is a necessity. We […]
British researchers are claiming to have discovered a massive rift valley beneath the Antarctic ice sheet that rivals the Grand Canyon in depth and is contributing to ice loss on the continent. “If you stripped away all of the ice here today, you’d see a feature every bit as dramatic as the […]