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What happens when you have leg numbness
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What happens when you have leg numbness

Interrupting the electrical signal path between nerves in the legs and brain can cause a feeling of numbness, like a pin prick.

December 15, 2018
4-month-old baby has 31 fingers
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4-month-old baby has 31 fingers

4-month-old Hong Hong boy (China) has 15 fingers, 16 toes, two palms on each side and no thumb.

December 15, 2018
Coming up, people will master the death
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Coming up, people will master the death

Birth, aging, sickness and death. Phàm is a person who is born, who then gets old, also carries the disease and then dies.

December 15, 2018
Spain created sperm from human skin cells
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Spain created sperm from human skin cells

Spanish scientists on April 27 said they have created sperm from human skin cells, a medical feat that could eventually open the way to treating infertility.

December 15, 2018