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If you watch enough Forensic Files, CSI, or any other A&E murder investigation show, you most definitely have noticed that arsenic is the favorite poison of housewives and husbands. Does arsenic serve a possible use for humans though? Most definitely.
A form of arsenic called arsenic trioxide has been used as a therapy for a particular [...]

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A funny study recently suggests that great apes like to play tag too. A paper published in the

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If escaping a predator in the wild wasn’t hard enough…they are evolving into hunters like humans. Like humans who use all sorts of trickery to fool animals like duck calls, wild cats have been observed making monkey calls to lure and trap their intended prey.
Until now the legend of cats pretending to be monkeys [...]

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Unless you have lived in a concrete jungle your entire life where you have never even seen the countryside, you have been amazed by the phenomenon known as the Firefly at some point in your life. Blinking green lights in the night have entertained kids for ages. It was always a curious sight and [...]

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While everyone wants their OWN little baby, orphans are common anyways, and need to be adopted. Humans if they are kind-hearted may adopt to help a child have a better life, but what about animals?
A study by Guelph Prof. Andrew McAdam, along with researchers from the University of Alberta and McGill University, revealed that [...]

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New studies suggest that rather than tens of millions of species on planet Earth, there may actually be less than 10 million. A University of Melbourne-led study, based on a new method of estimating tropical insect species — the largest and one of the most difficult groups on the planet to study — suggests that [...]

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It may sound far-fetched to consider the process of aging a “disease”, but that is exactly what many researchers are trying to accomplish. Bear with their explanation before you jump on me. The purpose of this new approach would turn the search for drugs to fight age-related diseases on its head, they say, and could [...]

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Sitting here writing blog posts I got that familiar feeling that comes once ever 2-12 weeks. My toenails are too long and I need to cut them at this second before they drive me insane. You never notice them. They just all of a sudden became so insanely annoying that they MUST be cut right [...]

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The Tibetan Highlands are at an altitude that cause some humans to become deathly ill if they are exposed to such conditions for a period of time. High-altitude lung and brain complications threaten and even kill mountaineers who scale the world’s tallest peaks. Others who find themselves at elevations significantly higher than where they normally [...]

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Hair cells deep inside the ear that become damaged during hearing may have found a coaxing by stem cells to regrow. While only done so far in mice, Dr. Kazuo Oshima of Stanford University in California and colleagues, experiments with two types of stem cells, raises the possibility of treating many types of deafness and [...]

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