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Regular coffee drinkers may get no real pick-me-up from their morning cup

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Photo Credit: Kuzeytac (Read the interesting write up about Turkish Coffee too.) A study by British scientists found that caffeine addiction is such a downer that regular coffee drinkers may get no real pick-me-up from their morning cup. measurements showed that their post-caffeine levels of alertness were actually no higher than the non/low consumers who [...]

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Video: Amazing Underwater Astonishments

Finish the video and you will be amazed how fascinating the ocean is! A pioneer in ocean exploration, David Gallo shows jaw-dropping footage of amazing sea creatures, including a color-shifting cuttlefish, a perfectly camouflaged octopus, and a Times Square’s worth of neon light displays from fish who live in the blackest depths of the ocean.

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Women Getting More Beautiful [Science]

via Times Online, FOR the female half of the population, it may bring a satisfied smile. Scientists have found that evolution is driving women to become ever more beautiful, while men remain as aesthetically unappealing as their caveman ancestors. The researchers have found beautiful women have more children than their plainer counterparts and that a [...]

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Video: Exploring the Re-wiring of the Brain

Neuroscientist Michael Merzenich looks at one of the secrets of the brain’s incredible power: its ability to actively re-wire itself. He’s researching ways to harness the brain’s plasticity to enhance our skills and recover lost function.

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13 Things That Do Not Make Sense [Science]

via New Scientist, Don’t try this at home. Several times a day, for several days, you induce pain in someone. You control the pain with morphine until the final day of the experiment, when you replace the morphine with saline solution. Guess what? The saline takes the pain away.

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How to Live to A Hundred

via National Geographic, Children of centenarians—who usually inherit both longevity and personality traits from their parents—are on average more outgoing, agreeable, and less neurotic, according to a new study. That’s because being affable and more social confers health benefits, according to lead study author Thomas Perls, director of the New England Centenarian Study at Boston [...]

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10 Surprising Sex Statistics [Science]

via Live Science, An 18th-century Russian woman holds the world record for having birthed the most children: 69, which she had over the course of 27 pregnancies that included sixteen pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets, and four sets of quadruplets. But she’s outdone by the male record-holder for most kids, a Moroccan emperor [...]

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Do You Know The Perfect Running Pace?

Each person has an optimal running pace that uses the least amount of oxygen to cover a given distance. An experiment showed, Overall, the optimal speeds for the group were about 8.3 mph (about a 7:13 minutes per mile) for males and 6.5 mph (9:08 min/mile) for females. via livescience.com

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Frequent Sex And Masturbation? Be Careful

via Science Daily: Men who are very sexually active in their twenties and thirties are more likely to develop prostate cancer, especially if they masturbate frequently, according to a study of more than 800 men.

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Can What Pregnant Women Eat Affect Baby’s Sex?

The answer is “Yes”, A recent paper titled “You are what your mother eats” found that women who ate lots of breakfast cereal, salt and potassium were more likely to give birth to baby boys. The study, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, was based on surveys with 740 pregnant women who were [...]

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Women Likely to Get More Orgasms from Rich Man

via TimesOnline, Scientists have found that the pleasure women get from making love is directly linked to the size of their partner’s bank balance. Believe it or not, it’s the result of scientific study. Reader “Mei Yen” (Singapore) commented,

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Where You Sit on A Bus Can Define Your Personality

Those at the front on the top deck are generally forward thinkers and those at the back are rebellious types who do not like their personal space being invaded, he found. Sitting in the middle are independent thinkers – usually younger to middle-aged passengers more likely to read a newspaper or listen to a personal [...]

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Do You Respond with as Much Passion After 20 Years (True Love)

SCIENTISTS have discovered true love. Brain scans have proved that a small number of couples can respond with as much passion after 20 years as most people exhibit only in the first flush of love. The findings overturn the conventional view that love and sexual desire peak at the start of a relationship and then [...]

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Video: What We Don’t About Science That We Might Think We Do

Starting with four basic questions (that you may be surprised to find you can’t answer), Jonathan Drori looks at the gaps in our knowledge — and specifically, what we don’t about science that we might think we do.

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