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Mouse, tarry hair in everyday foods
Our daily familiar dishes may contain a variety of exotic ingredients such as human hair, tar or rat hair.
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10 things continue to happen on the body of the dead
Experts still argue about whether there is the afterlife or the life after death.
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Vitamin A increases the concentration of HIV virus in breast milk
Vitamin A may increase the excretion of HIV in the milk of mothers infected with this virus, thereby increasing the risk of mother-to-child transmission.
Oceanography
Whale feces slows global warming
According to the latest discovery by marine biologists from Australia's Antarctic Bureau, whale feces can slow global warming.
Biology
Perspective of insects invading the universe
Will nanoscale protective suits allow the forms of life to travel in space and invade planets?
Animal world
Vitamins enhance attractiveness
Essential nutrients such as vitamins can act as pheromones to attract the opposite sex, at least in lizards. That is the conclusion of the Spanish researchers. They gave…
Animal world
Frogs stink to avoid mosquito bites
Research by assistant professor Mike Tyler from Adelaide University and entomologist Craig Williams from James Cook University shows that frogs produce a variety of chem…
Scientific application
Chinese farmers make beds that cure their wife's kidney stones
A farmer in Jiangxi Province, China created a bed that can rotate 360 degrees, helping his wife
Environment
Turn manure into nutritious fuel and fertilizer
Your stool may soon be used as a reusable fuel, thanks to a new technique invented by researchers.
Environment
One person produces two tons of CO2 each year from eating
Recent research by Spanish scientists has calculated the huge amount of carbon dioxide that each person emits in a year ...
Medicine - Health
Mistakes when often wearing closed shoes
People who regularly wear shoes, feet that are not exposed to the air will negatively affect health.
Medicine - Health
Even drinking Vitamin C doubles the risk of kidney stones
'High-dose vitamin C has long been suspected to increase the risk of kidney stones,' said Laura Thomas, Swedish researcher Karolínka, head of the study.
Cancer
Two types of proteins help predict colon cancer
Chinese scientists have found two proteins that can help accurately predict the spread of colon cancer.
Flu epidemic
H7N9 virus can be transmitted through human excretion
A reporter in Hong Kong (China) on August 15 reported the results of a joint study recently released by mainland Chinese and Chinese medical experts, saying that the H7N…