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A man lying on a couch.
(photo: WN / Yolanda Leyba)
Why keeping busy is the key if you want to beat the blues
The Daily Mail
| Those who are prone to a nice laze on the couch, be warned – scientists say the key to happiness is keeping busy. | Even doing meaningless or unnecessary tasks makes you feel better than just sitting around bored, American researchers concluded. | But unfortunately our instinct is to be lazy...
Snake at  Zoo
(photo: GFDL / Ltshears)
Snake venom may hold key for heart disease, cancer cure
Zeenews
Washington: Japanese scientists have claimed that a number of toxins found in snake venom could help develop new therapies for chronic diseases like heart attack, stroke and cancer. | The scientists, who reported their findings in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, said that inhibiting a protein f...
Snake venom may hold key for heart disease, cancer cure
Zeenews
Washington: Japanese scientists have claimed that a number of toxins found in snake venom could help develop new therapies for chronic diseases like heart attack, stroke and cancer. | The scientists, who reported their findings in the Journal of Biol...
Humble protein, nanoparticles tag-team to kill cancer cells
PhysOrg
| Transferrin-carrying nanoparticles that have targeted and permeated Ramos cancer cells. Areas of yellow represent the intracellular compartments of the cells where the nanoparticles reside. Areas of red represent intracellular compartments without ...
Prostate cancer 'cell' identified
The Guardian
| A cell that could be the "mother" of all prostate tumours has been identified by scientists. | Samples of the "basal" cells taken from healthy human prostate tissue triggered cancer in mice with suppressed immune systems. | The ...
Researchers Study Benefits of White Button Mushrooms
ARS
web | July 29, 2010 | Mushrooms are among the many foods thought to play an important role in keeping the immune system healthy. Now, Agricultural Research Service (ARS)-funded scientists have conducted an animal-model and cell-culture study showing ...
Phytoplankton bloom in the Baltic Proper, July 3, 2001.
Creative Commons
The dead sea: Global warming blamed for 40 per cent decline in the ocean's phytoplankton
The Independent
| The microscopic plants that support all life in the oceans are dying off at a dramatic rate, according to a study that has documented for the first time a disturbing and unpreced...
Pigs  -  Piggery  -  Swine Raising
WN / Trigedia
Pampered pigs 'feel optimism'
The Daily Telegraph Australia
| PIGS are capable of feeling optimism and pessimism, depending on their environment, a U.K. study revealed overnight. | Scientists from Newcastle University, in northern England, ...
Scientists to test new eczema cream
PhysOrg
| (PhysOrg.com) -- Skin experts are to test a new cream for the treatment of eczema after trials of an oral version of the drug reduced patients’ symptoms by 35% within a month. | University of Manchester researchers in the Dermatology Unit at Salfor...
Test Flight: Lufthansa Searches for Savor in the Sky
Wall Street Journal
By DANIEL MICHAELS | HOLZKIRCHEN, Germany — Scientists here are using a chopped up jetliner to study bad taste. | Their aim is to understand the decline in haute cuisine at high altitude. Initial test results: Perceptions of sweetness and salti...
Sports
Dietmar Hamann
(photo: Creative Commons / Oldelpaso)
Dietmar Hamann Slams Manchester City's Transfer Policy & Suggests Citizens Won't Win The Premier League
Goal
German claims City 'are not going anywhere' by spending extravagently | By Danielle Joynson | Share Former Eastlands midfielder Dietmar Hamann has blasted Manchester City for not finishing in the top four last season and says they are not Premier League contenders for the forthcoming campaign either. | According to Mirror Sport, despite the million...
Entertainment
Spain's soccer player Cesc Fabregas
(photo: AP / Daniel Ochoa de Olza)
Cesc Fabregas: forever a gunner
Gulf News
| London: Cesc Fabregas has revealed the depth of his torment over a proposed move to Barcelona, describing himself as a "Gunner" and Arsene Wenger as his "second father". | Wenger had a heart-to-heart conversation with his captain shortly before the World Cup at which Fabregas expressed a desire to return to the city of his bir...



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