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Should It Come As A Surprise That Heart Attack Peaks By About 15% Around 10 pm On Christmas Eve? Maybe Not!? Researchers Have Indicated, Using A 16-Year Long Study (1998-2013) Of About 283,014 Heart Attacks To Arrive At This Conclusion. Of Course, Holidays Entail Financial And Emotional Stress, Including Over-Exerting Oneself From Fun.

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The Concept Of Reducing People’s Size Like In The Movie “Downsizing” May Have Become A Reality—Just Kidding, Guys! However, Scientists May Have Found A Way To Resize A 3-D Object To 1/10th Its Original Volume Via A Process Of “Implosion Fabrication.” Here, The Scientists Reverse Engineer Expansion Microscopy To Reduce An Object.

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The First Full 3-D Body Scanner , Called Explorer, Has Been Developed By Scientists. The Scanner Is Said to Be 40 Times Faster Than Regular Scanner And Could Help In Improving Diagnostics To Tracking Disease Progression To Researching New Drug Therapies. The Scanner Could Help Evaluate What’s Happening In The Body As A Whole.

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A New Study Is Indicating That Plants May Have Evolved A Means To Mutually Benefit From Ants. The Ants Would Defend The Hollow Spike Shelters Provided By The Plants While, Unintentionally, Protecting The Plants. The Ants Would Also Protect Plants By Defending Their Food (E.g. Plant Nectar) From External Aggressors.

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Awesome, Probably One More Reason, In Addition To These Many Reasons , To Stay Off Energy Drinks. Scientists Are Indicating That Drinking Just One Energy Drink Can Narrow The Blood Vessels Within 90 Minutes. This Could Restrict Blood Flow, Increasing The Risk For Heart Attack And Stroke. Sucks!!

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Scientists May Have Found A Way To Remove The Zombie Cells In The Human Body. They Have Developed A New Class Of Drugs Called Senolytics, Which Could Restore The Body To Its Youthful Characteristics. A Human Trial To Test The Effectiveness Of The Drug Began Last July Of 2018. Keeping My Fingers Crossed!

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The California Institute of Technology Has Developed The World’s Fastest Camera That Can Capture Images At 10 Trillion (1013) Frames/Second. The Smartphone Camera, For Comparison, Captures Images At 30 Frames/Second. The Fastest Camera, Dubbed Compressed Ultra-fast Photography (CUP), Can Be Used To Study Light Behaviour In Slow Motion. 

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The Damaged Cells In The Body That Refused To Die, Zombie Cells, Is Said To Increase As One Gets Older. The Zombie Cells Are Said To Cause Ageing And To Some Extent Age-Related Diseases. Recent Studies Are Indicating That Flushing Out The Zombie cells, In Mice, Could Extend HealthSpan And Maybe Lifespan.

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California Has Passed The First Bill In The USA That would Mandate Companies, Before The End Of 2019, To Include At Least A Female Director On The Board Of Directors For California Based Public Companies. The Bill, Which Is Similiar To Those Passed In Norway And France. Is Expected To Protect Women Against Discrimination. Cool!

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Many Folks Are Being Urgently Rushed To The Surgery Room At The First Sign Of An Appendix, Which Could Be Life-Threatening If It Bursts. But Now, A New Study Is Indicating That Some Of These Surgeries May Not be Necessary As Appendix, Depending On A CT Scan Analysis, Could Be Treated With Antibiotics.

Study finds surgery often not…

The Most Populated State In The USA, California, Strikes Again By Becoming The First State In The USA To Ban Cosmetics That Have Been Tested On Animals. The State Joins 40 Other Countries In The World, Like India, Israel, Norway, South Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan To Banned Or Limit The Use Of Cosmetics Tested On Animals.

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California Becomes The First State To Abolish The Bail System, In Preference For Local Courts To Use Certain Guidelines To Determine Who To Keep In Detention, Or Who To Set Free As The Culprit Awaits Trial. The New Law Is Expected To Treat The Rich And Poor Alike By Removing The Cash Bail System.

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California, In The Fight Against Obesity As A Result Of The Consumption Of Surgery Drinks, Could Be The First State To Pass A Law That Would Restrict Restaurants To Serve Water And Unflavoured Milk To Kids. Soda Drink Has Also Been Linked To Heart And Kidney Diseases, Type 2 Diabetes, Tooth Decay, Nonalcoholic Liver Disease, And Cavities.…

2 Tiny Marsupials Species, The Silver-headed And The Black-tailed Dusky Antechinus, Can Be Added To The List Of Wierd Animals That Mate To The Death. But That Is Not What Is Really Threatening Their Existence. The Problem Is That They Are Going Into Extinction Because Of Human Induced Climate Change And Habitat Encroachment.

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After The Controversial Cancer-Causing Coffee Warning Label: California, Once Again In The News, Is Bent On Fighting Global Warming By Reducing Green House Gas Emissions. The State May Be The First In The USA To Mandate Solar Panel Installation On Every Newly Built Home After January 2020. Kudos!

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Scientists Have Discovered The Colobopsis Explodens Ant In The Borneo Jungle. The Ants Can Explode, Releasing Toxic Yellowish Goo To Kill Their Foes. But The Act Of Exploding Also Kills The Ant In The Process. Most Of The Ants That Sacrifice Themselves To Defend Their Colony Are Mostly The Minor Workers And All Sterile Females.

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Ants, Like The African Matabele Ants, Do Render Medical Aid To Their Fellow Injured Ants After A Battle And Carry Them Home. However, The Ants Would Only Render Aid Depending On The Severity Of The Injury As Displayed By The Wounded Ant. 80% Of The Injured Ants, Back At The Nest, Are Successfully Nursed Back To Health By Having Their Wounds…