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Study: Sex Increases Heart Attack Risk for Lazy People
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If you sit on your butt most of the time, this news may make you break out in a sweat: Sporadic bursts of sex or exercise can increase the risk of a heart attack. Dr. Issa Dahabreh and Dr. Jessica...
Feds: Fat Americans Need More Space on Buses
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Michelle Obama's war on obesity is getting some support from the Federal Transit Administration: It wants to beef up bus-testing regulations to account for the increased poundage of its...
A Glossary of Terms From a Nuclear Accident
Following is a glossary of terms related to nuclear power: Alpha particles: Emitted from naturally occurring materials (such as uranium, thorium and radium) and man-made elements (such as plutonium...
Philadelphia Breast Surgeon Moonlights as Knife Thrower
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Meet Dr. Ted Eisenberg, holder of the world record for the most breast surgeries performed in a lifetime. Rest assured, ladies -- you're probably in safe hands. Not content with handling scalpels...
Quake Put Stress on Fault Line Closer to Tokyo
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- The recent monster quake that hit northeastern Japan altered the earth's surface, geologists say, loading stress onto a different segment of the fault line much closer to...
Tonight's the BIG Night -- Here Comes Supermoon!
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Look! Up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's ... Supermoon! That's what you'll see when you gaze into the heavens in the east tonight right at sunset. It'll sort of be hard to miss as long as...
Vet Treats Dogs With Hip, Knee Problems With Stem Cell Therapy
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A Virginia veterinarian is one of just a few dozen nationwide experimenting with adult stem cell therapy for dogs who have problems with their hips and knees. Dr. John Herrity in Burke, Va., was...
Need More Air? Artificial Trees to Convert CO2 to O2
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It's not nice to fool Mother Nature. Or is it? If you're not getting enough air, you might want to spend time sitting under a newly designed artificial tree that converts carbon dioxide into...
When Nuke Planning for the Worst Is Not Enough
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NEWS ANALYSIS As hopes dim for controlling the explosive self-destruction of six decomposing nuclear plants on Japan's northeast coast, safety experts around the world want to know what was missing...
Roboroaches: Students Prepare to Control Roaches With Remote-Control Brains
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Here's something a little more interesting than the same, tired frog-and-worm dissections for your high school science class: an electric backpack that you can jam into a cockroach brain to turn the...
NASA Investigates Cocaine Found at Facility
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA is investigating after cocaine was found in a facility at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA spokesman Allard Beutel said Tuesday that 4.2 grams of a white powdery...
Army Eyes African Giant Rat as Bomb Detector
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They may not be man's best friend or even a friend at all, but rats someday could be used for what dogs now do: finding bombs. Alexander Ophir, a professor at Oklahoma State University's department...
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