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    Your gut’s trick for controlling the bacteria that live in it

    The bacteria living in our gut may have powerful effects on us, but we aren’t entirely at their mercy. We now have the first evidence of the mechanism our bodies use to keep these microbial hangers-on in check. There are ...
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    Food vs you: How your dinner controls you

    How the trouble starts This New Scientist article, usually accessible only to subscribers, is made available for free by Philips FOR those of us who would like to shed a few pounds, dietary advice usually boils down to brute arithmetic. ...
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    Work Schedule Is Top Barrier to Staying Healthy

    “The Mayo Clinic National Health Check-Up takes a pulse on Americans’ health opinions and behaviors, from barriers to getting healthy to perceptions of aging, to help identify opportunities to educate and empower people to improve their health,” says John T. ...
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    Are people suffering as a result of ultrasound in the air?

    New research from the University of Southampton indicates that the public are being exposed, without their knowledge, to airborne ultrasound. The study found increasing exposure to ultrasound in locations such as railway stations, museums, libraries, schools and sports stadiums, in ...
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    Bitter truth: How we’re making fruit and veg less healthy

    WHERE have all the white grapefruit gone? When I was a kid, they were almost the only kind around, but today white grapefruit are hard to find in my local shops, often replaced by sweeter pink or red varieties. I’m not ...
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    Sand-Covered Gyms

    The ‘Baja Body Athletic Club’ covered one of its workout rooms with a sand floor in an attempt of increase the intensity of members’ workouts. The interior of the room was only altered with a sand floor while everything else ...
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    Your bones could soon heal a whole lot better thanks to polymer nanoshells

    Might we one day have bionic body parts able to ward off disease and injury and even heal themselves? Today it’s still the stuff of sci-fi movies, but there are regular breakthroughs in the field of medical science that suggest ...
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    Automated Seabin collects trash on the ocean surface

    It should come as no surprise to you, but plastic waste in the oceans is a huge problem that needs to be addressed more effectively. Most objects we throw away eventually end up in the seas and in addition to ...
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    New Polymer Could Purify Water In Seconds: Study

    NEW YORK:  Scientists have developed a new reusable polymer that can remove pollutants from flowing water within seconds, just like air fresheners trap invisible air pollutants in the home and remove unwanted odours. Researchers have used the same material found ...