The study found that women get more scared than men during horror films.
Have you ever wondered why some women get scared watching horror films while most men stay calm? It’s actually their brains which make females more likely to be terrified by the flicks, a new study has claimed.
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An exotic planet that seems to be made of diamond discovered.
Astronomers have spotted an exotic planet that seems to be made of diamond racing around a tiny star in our galactic backyard.
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Tulane University has applied for a patent for a method to produce the biofuel butanol from organic material.
Scientists have found one way that old-fashioned newspaper beats the internet. Tulane University scientists have discovered a novel bacterial strain, dubbed “TU-103,” that can use paper to produce butanol, a biofuel that can serve as a substitute for gasoline. They are currently experimenting with old editions of the Times Picayune, New Orleans’ venerable daily newspaper, with great success.
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There are approximately 8.7 million different types of plant and animal on Earth.
About 90% of the plant and animal species on Earth have yet to be discovered or classified according to scientists. Earth is estimated to be home to just under 9 million species, a study says.
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Social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook and others, which displayed images of teens abusing alcohol and drugs, “constitutes electronic child abuse”.
According to a new study by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University suggests that teens who use social media are more likely to abuse drugs and alcohol.
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Are you ready to show off your artistic prowess?
The DaVinci Institute is pleased to announce a “call for artists” for the Inventor Art Competition.
The theme of this competition is inventors and their great inventions. Inventors chosen may be contemporary or from any time in the past. They just have to show the mark of being a great inventor.
When you think of a great inventor, who do you think of? What invention did they create?
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Facebook also has 870 million unique users.
Social networking site Facebook reached 1,000,000,000,000 page views in June. It’s also got 870 million unique users, according to Google’s DoubleClick Ad Planner. That makes it the number-one site in terms of broad reach of Internet users.
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Filling without drilling.
Scientists claim to have found the secret of a “completely painless” filling by identifying a material that can repair decaying teeth within weeks.
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The unplanned pregnancy rate among women with incomes below the federal poverty line jumped by 50 percent between 1994 and 2006.
Nearly half of all pregnancies in the United States are unplanned and they are increasingly concentrated among low-income women, according to a new study.
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Most people would choose longer hours and higher pay even if it won’t make them happy.
Money might not be able to buy you love, but it seems most people would be willing to choose it over happiness if the results of a new survey are to be believed.
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The most popular online activities are search and email remain and are nearly universal among adult internet users, as 92% of online adults use search engines to find information on the Web, and a similar number (92%) use email. Since the Pew Internet Project began measuring adults’ online activities in the last decade, these two behaviors have consistently ranked as the most popular, even as new platforms, broadband and mobile devices continue to reshape the way Americans use the internet and web. Even as early as 2002, more than eight in ten online adults were using search engines, and more than nine in ten online adults were emailing.
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