Sniffer dogs can detect lung cancer.
Dogs can be trained to accurately identify the scent of lung cancer long before symptoms develop, according to researchers.
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Java In A Puff
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Why drink your coffee when you can inhale it?
Thanks to creative engineering by Harvard professor David Edwards, coffee addicts can now breathe their morning cup of joe (and get their caffeine fix) using a product called Le Whif.
Le Whif ‘gives us the kick of coffee without the cup,’ says Edwards.
How does it work? Users place one end of the stick, which is about the size of a lipstick tube, to their lips, then inhale gently (see diagram after jump).
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How Coffee Can Prevent Bad Breath
Coffee beans contain a compound that prevents bacteria
Coffee could hold the secret to keeping bad breath at bay. The beans contain compounds that prevent bacteria releasing the gases behind halitosis, research shows.
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Unique Tree Shaped Air Conditioner
Breath – a tree shaped air conditioner
Breath, an air conditioner by Ryuichi Tabu, is one unique kind of air conditioner that uses ground heat and the Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage (ATES) system for its functioning. Designed in the shape of a tree, this peerless air conditioner circulates air within a wider range with a double structure that controls airflow in its branches.
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Pocket-Size Breath Test
Yeah thats your breath that stinks
Tired of wondering how bad your breath really smells sometimes? Researchers have developed a tiny breath test that can detect bad-breath bacteria in your mouth. Continue reading… “Pocket-Size Breath Test”
Alcoholic Architecture: First Walk In Cocktail
Special dress code: Drinkers leave the G&T-smelling bar in their special protective gear
You’re advised to wear protective clothing in this bar… the one called Alcoholic Architecture in London. It’s a bar with a twist, you might say. A big twist of lime in a gin and tonic, infused into the air.
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British Diver Breaks Depth Record On A Single Breath
Diving to New Depths
A woman from London has set a new freediving world record after swimming 96m (318ft) below the surface of the ocean and back in a single breath. Sara Campbell, 37, from Wandsworth, spent 3min 36sec submerged off an island in the Bahamas.
The dive in the Vertical Blue contest took her down the equivalent of the height of Big Ben’s clock tower.
In October 2007 she smashed all world depth records within 48 hours, after only nine months in the extreme sport. Her latest feat, is known as the constant weight world record, in which the diver must use just a monofin – a mermaid like tail – and their own power.
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A Little Known Sport: Underwater Hockey
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Here is a movie showing some freestyle underwater hockey
A little known sport, underwater hockey is what some divers like to do during the winter months when the outside water is too cold for diving. The sport was invented in Great Britain during the 1950’s when some British divers were looking for ways to stay fit during the winter. The result: An intensive and beatiful sport practised around the world leaving us with some striking images.
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Unborn Exposed To Alcohol Are Attracted To Smell Of Liquor After Birth
Rats are more attracted to liquor’s smell during puberty if their mothers were given alcohol during pregnancy.
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Doctors Perform Windpipe Transplant With Stem Cells
A patient’s collapsed lung, at right, is seen prior to a windpipe transplant which used tissue grown from the patient’s own stem cells.
Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs. “This technique has great promise,” said Dr. Eric Genden, who did a similar transplant in 2005 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. That operation used both donor and recipient tissue. Only a handful of windpipe, or trachea, transplants have ever been done.
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Symptons Of Heart Disease Attributed To Stress More Frequent In Women Than Men
Research presented at the 20th annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) scientific symposium, sponsored by the Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF), found that coronary heart disease (CHD) symptoms presented in the context of a stressful life event were identified as psychogenic in origin when presented by women and organic in origin when presented by men. The study could help explain why there is often a delay in the assessment of women with heart disease.
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Humans Breath Like Fish
Its about freakin time aya!!!
Alan Izhar-Bodner, an Israeli inventor, has developed a way for divers to breathe underwater without cumbersome oxygen tanks. His apparatus makes use of the air that is dissolved in water, just like fish do.
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