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G-spot was first described in western medicine by Dr. Grafenberg in 1950, the bean-shaped area of the vaginal wall is supposed to guarantee a female orgasm as soon as it is stimulated

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Scientists say there may be no such thing as a “G-spot” after all. G-spot was first described in western medicine by Dr. Grafenberg in 1950,...

Irisin losing weight hormone

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A team of medical scientists, led by a cell biologist from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Bruce M. Spiegelman, discovered a hormone, called irisin,...

Online encyclopedia Wikipedia and blog service WordPress are among the highest profile sites to block their content as a protest against anti-piracy laws in US

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After yesterday "blackout" protests on thousands of internet sites, eight US lawmakers have announced they have withdrawn their support for anti-piracy laws. Two of the...

Digital pills

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Proteus Biomedical, Redwood City, California, and the healthcare company Lloydspharmacy are about to launch digital pills in the United Kingdom, as they announced on...

Tests on mice showed that both Glivec and Sutent depleted pericytes by 70 percent while metastasis rates tripled

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A new study suggests that cancer drugs that shrink tumors by cutting off their blood supply may end up helping them to spread. Drugs such...

Live Interactive Teledermatology

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A study, published this month in the Journal of the American Medical Association's Archives of Dermatology and funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research...

A 30-year Scandinavian study suggests that oral contraceptives may alleviate painful periods for some women

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A 30-year Scandinavian study suggests that oral contraceptives may alleviate painful periods for some women. Estimates suggest more than half of women have suffered from...

Wikipedia announced that will black out its website on Wednesday to protest against anti-piracy legislation under consideration in Congress

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Wikipedia announced that will black out its website on Wednesday to protest against anti-piracy legislation under consideration in Congress. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announced on...

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Computer hacker Yama Tough yesterday threatened to release the full source code for Symantec Corp's flagship Norton AntiVirus software. Yama Tough posted via Twitter: “This...

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US scientists believe they have identified a sixth taste for lipids - a previously unknown sense for fat. For many years it was assumed that...

Russian Phobos-Grunt Mars probe that's been stuck in Earth orbit for two months has crashed down in the Pacific Ocean on late Sunday

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Russian Phobos-Grunt Mars probe that's been stuck in Earth orbit for two months has crashed down in the Pacific Ocean on late Sunday. "Phobos-Grunt fragments...

High school student Angela Zhang from Cupertino has found a possible cure for cancer and she has been rewarded with a scholarship for $100,000

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High school student Angela Zhang from Cupertino, California, has found a possible cure for cancer and she has been rewarded with a scholarship for $100,000. Angela...

Phobos-Grunt's rate of descent is being monitored by radar and the tracking groups will be using this information to try to narrow the uncertainties as the weekend progresses

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Phobos-Grunt, the Russian's failed Mars probe, is about to fall back to Earth - quite probably on Sunday. Phobos-Grunt spacecraft has been losing altitude rapidly...

Friday the 13th didn't occur more than usual in 2013

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Friday the 13th is a particularly inauspicious day for those of a superstitious inclination. Moreover, they may be unhappy to learn that 2012 will...

Planck was launched on the same rocket as ESA's other flagship space telescope, Herschel, on 14 May 2009

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One of Europe's great astronomical ventures is coming to a close after the Planck telescope, which was put in space to map the oldest...

IBM researchers have successfully stored a single data bit in only 12 atoms

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IBM researchers have successfully stored a single data bit in only 12 atoms, as currently it takes about a million atoms to store a...

Swedish researchers at Karolinska Institute suggest there is a link between eating processed meat, such as bacon or sausages, and pancreatic cancer

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Swedish researchers at Karolinska Institute suggest there is a link between eating processed meat, such as bacon or sausages, and pancreatic cancer. Researchers said eating...

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A preliminary research suggests that web addiction is reflected in brain changes similar to those hooked on drugs or alcohol addiction.

Apple has decided to halt the sale of all iPhone models from its stores in China, after large crowds disrupted the launch of the iPhone 4S

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Apple has decided to halt the sale of all iPhone models from its stores in China, after large crowds disrupted the launch of the...

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A case study reports that a man with two hearts - one his own, one a donor heart- was resuscitated via a defibrillator when...

Parabens are a chemical compound found in everyday toiletry products including moisturizers, make-up, shaving foam, tanning lotions and toothpaste

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Parabens, chemicals widely used as a preservative in cosmetics, food products and pharmaceuticals has been found in tissue samples from 40 women with breast...

The world’s smallest frog is pictured on a US dime, whose diameter is 18mm

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The world's smallest frog has been discovered in Papua New Guinea by a US-based team. At 7 mm (0.27 inches) long, Paedophryne amauensis may be...

According to the official Star Trek technical manual, a tricorder is a portable "sensing, computing and data communications device"

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A $10 million prize was launched at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas for whoever can create a Star Trek-like medical "tricorder". The Qualcomm...

Astronomers wanted to find out how Milky Way galaxy looked from the outside

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Astronomers wanted to find out how Milky Way galaxy looked from the outside - a difficult task given the Earth is inside it. A comparison...

A hundred years after it sank, expeditions to Titanic, in depths of the Atlantic Ocean, are coming to close to allow the ship to rest in peace

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A hundred years after Titanic sank, expeditions to the ship, in depths of the Atlantic Ocean, are coming to close to allow the ship to rest...