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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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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Women must have a happy marriage to benefit from heart boost.
Being married triples the chances that you will likely survive major heart surgery than cohabiting, researchers say.
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Forests are absorbing almost 40 per cent of the 38 billion tons of carbon dioxide created by mankind every year.
Researchers at the University of Leeds found forests absorb nearly 40 per cent of man made fossil fuel emissions every year.
Single men could die about a decade earlier than married men. Single women don’t fare much better.
Being single is great, isn’t it? You get to sleep on either side of the bed; you never have to wait for the bathroom; you’ve got all that “me time.” Except, well, you may be one of the unlucky singles who keel over about one decade earlier than your married friends, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
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How cool is your partner?
Having a stressed-out partner may affect your life expectancy, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of Glasgow found that birds who were paired off with anxious partners were at a high risk of dying young.
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Watching 60 minutes of is like smoking two cigarettes.
After the age of 25, watching an hour of TV can shorten the viewer’s life by just under 22 minutes, according to researchers in Australia.
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Getting along with coworkers could prolong your life.
A new study finds that good relationships with your co-workers and a convivial, supportive work environment may add years to your life.
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Creativity has decreased among American children in recent years.
A creativity researcher scoured 300,000 creativity tests going back to the 1970s and found that kids these days are narrow-minded and just not as creative as they used to be.
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Estrogen protects women from heart attacks.
Why are women said to be less vulnerable to heart attacks as compared to men? Well, it’s the sex hormone estrogen which protects females, says a new study.
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Movies with surprise endings, like The Sixth Sense (starring Bruce Willis and Hayley Joel Osment) are not, it turns out, ruined by spoilers.
We’ve all dodged conversations about who shot JR to covering our eyes when the football results flash up and we go to enormous lengths to not have surprise endings spoiled.
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