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Aggressive women - genes' fault |
 ...ene are closely related to hostility and ill temper in women.
As it was previously showed by various researches, the hormone serotonin plays an important part in regulating aggressive behavior for animals and people. Thus the lower level of serotonin, the more are the chances that an individual will show hostility or act in aggressive and anxious manner. The high level of serotonin will contribute to feelings of happin... |
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Chemical Found in Cosmetics, Soaps and Lubricants is Hazardous for Men |
 ...at phthalates have been actively used for more than half a century. However, only now did scientist start thinking about the possible health problems to which the chemical might lead. Studies made on animals showed that phthalates consistently depress the levels of testosterone. Recently, while performing their studies on humans, scientists have found that the hazardous chemicals are linked to poor quality of semen in men... |
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Nano-nose to help identify illnesses |
 ...teins specific for a disease, but it could see the difference or the anomaly in the normal combination of proteins in the human body.
After running a series of tests with blood of sick and healthy animals, the scientists were able to identify changes in serum. They do not want to stop here and they try to make this ability statistically stable. Later on Rotello plans to make the 'nano-nose' identify different kinds of ... |
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Worms and Humans Are One Family |
| ...r brain is undoubtedly connected with those cells, which are used by worms to 'think'.
Experts state that this discovery is more important than some might fancy. It is well known that invertebrate animals have much in common with vertebrates (including us - humans) and that we all have some common ancestors; yet there remained one question to be answered: did our nervous system evolve by itself or we inherited it from ... |
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Ten Unnoticed Effects of Global Warming |
 ... earlier, thus plants bloom earlier too and produce more pollen. All of this results in a simple axiom: a longer spring equals a longer allergic season.
9. Change of the habitat
Small rodent forest animals are not to be seen on height we were used to see them for some time now. Probably, this happens because such animals as mice and squirrels move to higher elevations and, probably, this is also caused by global warming... |
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Norwegian prison goes green |
 ...grains and berries that are pesticides free. No food is unused - if something is left -it is sent to other prisons.
Besides the organic food, prisoners have a farm where they look after domestic animals like cows, sheep, and chicken. They also can have a rest and go fishing in the nearby Skagerrak Sea.
In summer inmates can have a walk on the beach and enjoy nature. You won't even see a usual barbed wire around th... |
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Evolution of Animal Vision - New Facts Discovered |
 ...Having conducted deep study of evolutionary history, scientists at the University of California in Santa Barbara have found the origins of photo-sensitivity in animals.
The scientists concentrated their attention at Hydra, the aquatic animal that belongs to cnidarians and has inhabited Earth for hundreds of millions of years. The scientists became the first to study and analyze light-receptive genes called opsins in cn... |
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Glowing Pig Gives Birth to Glowing Piglets |
 ...splant organs. The glowing piglets' birth showed that genetic modification was successful, however further trials are necessary.
There were several cases of development of the genetically modified animals last year, including the creation of pig with genes of human diabetes and glowing cats.
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Meat of Cloned Food is Safe to Eat, FDA Says |
 ...The US Food and Drug Administration claimed that food from cloned animals is safe to eat and they need no special labeling. This caused a mixed reactions from the consumer federations, who refused to sell the cloned food.
The FDA reported that meat and milk from cloned swine, goats and cattle is not different from the conventionally bred animals. The officials also said that this food doesn't need special labeling afte... |
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Italian Circus of Horrors Tortured Girls with Piranhas |
 ...ing on her body.
The family had to work for 15-20 hours a day, having been paid only 100 euros a week, while they were promised to be paid 480 euros a week. They had to live in a trailer, used for animals' transportation in awful conditions.
Investigation found that other immigrants from Eastern Europe had suffered form similar abuses in the circus, but they managed to escape. During the arrest all the documents, m... |
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Small Nuclear Conflict Would Be Enough to Destroy Ozone |
 ...ntinue for five additional years.
The ultraviolet radiation the mankind would be exposed to is likely to result in cancer, damage eyes and skin and lead to the destruction of plants and damage to animals.
Mills explained that this study showed that even a small exchange of nuclear power can lead to irreversible consequences.
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TV Dust Carries Harmful Chemical |
 ...ts up and this gas turns into dust that coats household objects.
The flame retardants accumulate in the body over the time and may have harmful effect on individual's health. The latest studies on animals showed that PBDEs interferes with the normal functioning of nervous system and hormonal function, may also harm reproductive organs and was found to cause cancer in lab rats.
Scientists are concerned about the resu... |
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Woman Turned Her Pet Cat into Black Diamond |
 ...of her beloved cat and had the unique diamond set in a gold ring.
The black diamond was the world's first gem created from ashes by the US company LifeGem that offers to transform dead people and animals into precious gems. The company says. "It is a way to embrace your loved one's memory day by day."
It took 2 grams of carbon remained from 100 grams of pet's ashes. The carbon extracted from the cat was put under d... |
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Scientific Breakthrough: Extinct Animal DNA Revived in a Live Animal |
 ...erted it into a mouse and it functioned.
Though reviving the genes doesn't mean that the extinct animal will be reborn, it holds a potential for further research, revealing the biology of extinct animals and developing new biomedicines.
This breakthrough means that scientists can one day get the knowledge of much older specimens.
The Tasmanian tiger or thylacine was the world’s largest marsupial carnivore that ... |
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