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Five metals of five planets can cure variety of diseases

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Gold and silver jewelry, steel items, brass coins and many other metal things have been known as healers since ancient times. However, most people do not treat metal as a method of treatment and consider it to be remnants of the past. Yet, metal therapy continues to help people. The most important aspect in this method is its simplicity, accessibility and the absence of side effects. Metals of planets In... 

Biggest dinosaurs had small brains

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Though the plant-eating dinosaur Ampelosaurus was among the largest to walk the Earth, it had a tiny brain. That is according to a recent study. Scientists say that an advanced member of the biggest dinosaurs ever to walk the earth had a tiny brain, the size of a tennis ball. The scientists studied the skull of fossils of the dinosaur Ampelosaurus, which was discovered in the Spanish city of Cuenca... 

Urban birds alter songs to be heard over traffic noise

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Many urban dwelling birds alter their song’s tune from the low-frequency to a high pitch to be heard far better in big cities’ noise pollution, new study says. Many species have developed divergent strategies for dealing with the numerous unfavorable environmental conditions in cities such as light and noise pollution, according to the scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in... 

Russian team takes ice sample from Lake Vostok in searching for life

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Nearly a year after Russian researchers reached the unique sub-glacial Lake Vostok, the first sample of transparent ice from its water has been taken. The finding is of great value as it could reveal if the lake harbors life. The Lake Vostok, isolated by 4-kilometer layer of ice for around the past 20 million years, has been of great interest to scientists since it was first discovered in the 1990s.... 

New method for curing migraine discovered

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After 10 sessions of treatment, patients with chronic migraine pain decreased by 37 percent. The method to cure migraine is known as deep brain stimulation and scientists say a weak electrical current of two milliamperes is sufficient to relieve the headache. Scientists discovered that electroshock therapy reduces the headache by 37 percent in those who are expected to suffer from chronic migraine,... 

Scientists discover black holes weighing 40 billion suns

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The bright spot at the center of this large elliptical galaxy is one of the biggest black holes in the universe, which scientists recently found is even bigger than previously thought. This galaxy is in the center of the galaxy cluster PKS 0745-19, which is located about 1.3 billion light years from Earth It turns out that the largest black holes may be even bigger than scientists previously thought.... 

Italian scientists take first DNA image

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Italian researchers expect to observe individual DNA molecules through a silicon pillars technique performed to observe the seven wires of the chain. Previously, the interpretation of the images required very complex mathematical calculations. Scientists at the University of Genoa have taken direct photographs of the seven strands of DNA. Scientists at the University of Genoa, in the west of Italy,... 

Disappearance of Pacific island intrigues scientists

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Shipping could not find an island between Australia and New Caledonia which is listed by cartographers in atlases, maps and even Google Earth. A dream common to most explorers and discoverers throughout history has been to find unknown territories, but in Australia, a team of scientists have done just the opposite: they identified an island that does not exist. Known as Sandy Island, the land mass... 

Climate change ended Classic Maya civilization

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Scientists have been analyzing different aspects of the collapse of the classic Maya civilization for years, offering theories such as social unrest, disease, warfare, drought and deforestation. A new study shows that climate change led to the end of the Classic Maya civilization, confirming an earlier drought hypothesis. The study, conducted by an international team of researchers, was published in... 

Curiosity investigates bright particles discovered on Mars

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NASA scientists reported on Thursday that the robot Curiosity will study the recently discovered bright particles on the Martian surface after it was ruled out that they could be from any cables of the ship that carried the android. In October, it showed transmitted while collecting samples of Martian soil. Scientists at the U.S. space agency NASA (by acronym) announced that the robot Curiosity will... 

UK and Japanese scientists receive Nobel Medicine Prize for stem cell study

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Kyoto University Professor Shinya Yamanaka (L) and John Gurdon of the Gurdon Institute in Cambridge John Gurdon from the UK and Shinya Yamanaka from Japan have won the 2012 Nobel Prize for medicine or physiology for their research on stem cell. Both scientists were awarded for their groundbreaking discovery of changing adult cells into stem cells, which can become any other type of cell in the body. The... 

Nazi-found Buddhist statue with swastika originally from space

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The swastika symbol was around long before the Nazis chose it for their notorious emblem. An ancient Buddhist statue with a swastika on it they brought back from Tibet was probably carved from a meteorite that crashed on the Siberia-Mongolia border. ­According to researchers, the 10-kilogram figure of the “Iron Man” which features a large swastika, a good-luck symbol in Buddhism, most... 

Russian scientists to broadcast GMO experiment

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After a French study suggested that rats fed on Monsanto GMO corn suffered tumors, Russian researches plan their own, this time public, experiment. The unique reality show with rats is expected to prove or deny GMO’s health-threatening influence. ­The Russian scientists, who oppose genetically modified organisms (GMO) in food, expect that their year-long experiment will show whether the controversial... 

Science finds out why specific cells let HIV in

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Dendritic and T-cells are integral parts of the human immune system Scientists at George Mason University have carried out a groundbreaking new research project, finally revealing the reason why the deadly HIV virus targets only a specific kind of T-cell. The new discovery may change the way the disease is tackled. The study, which was recently published online, will appear in October’s Journal of... 

NASA to hunt for Nibiru that may destroy life on Earth

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NASA scientists plan to launch a telescope into space in an attempt to find the mysterious killer planet Nibiru. Supposedly, the planet may considerably change life on Earth in near future, reports NTV. According to a number of experts on the esoteric, the planet will bring all sorts of horrors to Earth, strictly on the scenarios of end-of-the-world films. The list of disasters includes: earthquakes,... 
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