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| YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD CAN AFFECT YOUR HEALTH |
| Research shows middle-aged and elderly people in poor neighborhoods 'significantly more likely' to suffer mobility and cognitive problems.
Research carried out at the Peninsula Medical School, South West England, has found strong links between neighbourhood deprivation and the physical and intellectual health of older people. |
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| AIR-FRESHENERS CAUSE A STINK |
| A potentially harmful smog can form inside homes through reactions between air-fresheners and ozone, say researchers at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The reactions generate formaldehyde, classed as a probable carcinogen, and related compounds that many experts believe are responsible for respiratory problems. |
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| HOUSEHOLD ACTIVITIES RELEASE A CLOUD OF DUST, INCREASING EXPOSURE TO PARTICULATE POLLUTION |
| Ordinary household activities, from dusting to dancing, can increase your exposure to particulate pollution, according to a new study. Whether you are cutting the rug or just vacuuming it, you may be inhaling tiny dust particles that could be harmful to your health. |
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| GREEN CHOCOLATE WRAPPERS LURE SHOPPERS |
| Chocolate bars with green wrappers grab your attention and are easier to pick out than other colours, according to a U.K. researcher. |
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| CHAMPAGNE AND BUBBLES: SMALLER IS BETTER |
| As New Year's Eve approaches and you prepare to pop open that champagne bottle, keep your fingers crossed for small bubbles ... and lots of them. |
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| WE’VE OUTGROWN THE PLANET, SAY EXPERTS. |
| There are 1000 times too many humans on the planet, according to a study that compared the sustainability of humans with other species. |
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| ROW ERUPTS OVER ASTEROID SCARES |
| Astronomers are horrified by press scares over asteroids - including the recent furore over QQ47 - which briefly had a one-in-a-million chance of crashing into our planet in 2014. So much so that they are toning down the scale they use to rate the threat posed by asteroids in an attempt to discourage journalists from covering potential collisions. Some even want the way asteroids are assessed to be completely overhauled. |
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| TOO MUCH WATER DURING EXERCISE CAN KILL |
| Drinking too much fluid when exercising vigorously - often recommended in training - can actually kill you, sports medicine experts have warned. |
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| VANISHED INCA MAY HAVE USED BINARY CODE LANGUAGE |
| The vanished Inca civilisation of the Andes, long thought to have no writing, invented a seven-bit binary code to store information more than 500 years before the invention of the computer, argues an American anthropologist. |
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| CELTIC ARRIVED IN BRITAIN, FRANCE WITH FARMERS |
| A new method of analysing language supports the idea that farmers carried Celtic to the British Isles, Ireland and France in a single wave 6,000 years ago, researchers report. |
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| JEALOUSY IN MEN, WOMEN NOT SO DIFFERENT |
| Culture plays a big part in men and women's experience of sexual and emotional jealously, and they are not as different as evolutionary psychologists have argued, according to a new study. |
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| HUMAN REPRODUCTIVE RATES FOLLOW BIOLOGICAL SCALING RULES |
| In nations with high per capita energy consumption, women have fewer children. This phenomenon is an unexpected consequence of the biological scaling relationship between metabolism and reproductive rate: larger species of mammals have higher metabolism but lower birth rates. In the April 2003 issue of Ecology Letters, Moses and Brown show that these same biological scaling rules describe the demographic transition to lower birth rates in human populations. Birth rates decline predictably with increased energy consumption, even though most of that energy comes from fossil fuels, not food. |
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| MARRIAGE MAKES YOU A BIT HAPPIER - FOR A WHILE |
| Marriage may give people a small boost in happiness, new research has shown, but experts argue over why positive effects appear short lived. |
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| HALF THE WORLD FACING WATER SHORTAGES BY 2025 |
| Half the world's population will not have enough water by 2025 unless governments lift their development and investment priorities, a senior official of the World Water Council said. |
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| TRAMS MORE DAMAGING TO THE ENVIRONMENT THAN CARS |
| Trams are the least 'green' form of transport, and even trains produce only slightly less greenhouse gases than cars, an Australian study has found. |
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| CWRU RESEARCHER REVEALS DIFFERENCES IN HIGH-ALTITUDE LIVING |
| New discoveries by Case Western Reserve University anthropologist Cynthia Beall continue to unravel the mystery of how humans have adapted to high altitude living. |
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| GLOBAL ANALYSIS FINDS NEARLY HALF THE EARTH IS STILL WILDERNESS |
| According to the most comprehensive global analysis ever conducted, wilderness areas still cover close to half the Earth's land, but contain only a tiny percentage of the world's population. More than 200 international scientists contributed to the analysis, which will be published in the book, Wilderness: Earth's Last Wild Places, (University of Chicago Press, 2003). |
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| DEBUNKING STEREOTYPES, WOMEN FLOCK TO COMPUTER GAMES |
| Adolescent boys are not the only ones playing computer games. In fact, says Dr. T.L. Taylor, assistant professor of communication at North Carolina State University, recent trends show increasing numbers of girls and women enjoying games on their computers as well. |
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