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Psychologist Dr. Mark Blagrove asked 10,000 library users about their dreams, with startling results. Readers of fantasy novels, like The Lord of The Rings, have more nightmares, tho... |
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If you suffer from premenstrual syndrome (PMS or PMT) then you might find relief in a glass of wine, according to scientists from New York. Sheryl Smith and her team gave rats a drug... |
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Psychologist Robert Feldman from the University of Massachusetts, in America, has found that over 60% of people tell lies in everyday conversation. 121 pairs of students, who had bee... |
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American company Novint Technologies have developed a system to let parents feel their baby before it is born. The new device turns ultrasound scans of a baby inside the mother into ... |
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The search for life on other planets has taken an interesting turn - researchers have sown that there are amino acids in outer space. Amino acids are the building blocks from which p... |
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What do we associate with drug dealers, apart from drugs of course ? Mobile phones of course ! Mobile phones are an essential accessory for every drug dealer. Along with the dodgy sh... |
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Earthquakes measuring 6 on the richter scale have occurred roughly every 22 years since 1857 at Parkfield, California, which sits on the San Andreas Fault and which is now the site o... |
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Breast cancer affects 39,000 women per year in the UK and kills 1/3 of them. A study published in the Lancet yesterday looked at 47 separate studies of 50,000 women with breast cance... |
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How fast does sperm swim ?
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About 3 mm per hour ! Interestingly, mice sperm are very altruistic and line up nose-to tail and swim along in
a big convoy thus helping more of them make it further.
Coffee affects sperm motility.
NASA send sperm into space to monitor its performance in zero gravity
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How big is the internet ?
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This depends on whether you mean how many pages are there, or how many people are there using the web ? In term
s of the number of pages, the search-engine Google claims to currently index over 2 billion. In terms of the size of the online community, current estimates suggest about 544 million people, according to
internet demographics source nua.com.
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Why are you not allowed to use a mobile phone in a petrol station ?
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There have been a number of stories in the past about mobiles
causing explosions of garage forecourts, but as far as we know, none of them have ever been substantiated. The chief concern is that if, whilst someone is using a mobile, the battery were to fall out, it could
theoretically produce a spark across the contacts capable of causing an explosion. The same risk actually also applies to other battery-powered items including walkmans for instance.
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