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Lake Vostok is the world's largest subglacial or literally 'beneath the ice' lake in thw world. It was discovered in 1996 when scientists were looking at radar images of the antarcti... |
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Tinnitus sufferers are tortured by continuous buzzing or ringing noises in their ears, even when they are experiencing total silence, and the sounds cannot be blocked out. Most peopl... |
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It is fairly easy to understand why airborne pollution might be bad for your lungs and contribute to allergic conditions such as asthma, but it is more difficult to explain why, on d... |
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As more women are pursuing careers for longer, the birth rate in women over 40 had increased by over 40%, with 17,000 births in this age group from 1999 to 2000. The overall birth ra... |
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You will probably have heard that the ice-caps are melting at a higher rate than before. A large part of one of Antarctica's ice shelves has broken away recently. The Arctic ice-cap ... |
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If you have ever been to Amsterdam you may have noticed the old green metal urinal cubicles at intervals along the canals. A new type of urinal has just been tested which pops out of... |
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Screening women aged 50 to 69 for breast cancer does save lives, according to the World Health Organisation. However, there has been a big debate recently about whether mammography i... |
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It's all been happening in the Antarctic this week. First a huge iceberg 9 times the size of Singapore broke away into the sea. Then the Larsen B ice shelf, which had been floating o... |
