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Magnesium deficiency symptoms and diagnosis

2 hours ago - Magnesium deficiency is often misdiagnosed because it does not show up in blood tests - only 1% of the body's magnesium is stored in the blood. Most doctors and laboratories don't even include magnesium status in routine blood tests. Thus, most doctors don't know when their ...

Arthur films mystery UFO over Ipswich, Australia

8 hours ago - A green UFO that lit up the night sky over Ipswich has the man who saw it and experts in the field baffled. "I've never seen anything like it before," UFO Research Queensland president Sheryl Gottschall said. Booval's Arthur Sollitt took a video recording of the bizarre ...

Astronomers detect dust feature in Comet ISON's inner coma

10 hours ago - In April, when the Hubble Space Telescope looked out towards Jupiter's orbit and observed what has been billed as the "Comet of the Century" - Comet C/2012 S1 ISON - the space telescope photographed a unique feature in the comet's coma. Now, a team of ground-based astronomers have ...

Changes in brain chemistry sustain obesity

11 hours ago - In a new discovery reported in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, Brown University and Lifespan researchers show that in the brain cells of rats, obesity impedes the production of a hormone that curbs appetite and inspires calorie burning. The root cause appears to be a breakdown in ...

Weird gravity waves pulse from a tropical cyclone

12 hours ago - Last Monday, May 13, the Suomi NPP satellite captured a fascinating image of Tropical Cyclone Mahasen as it moved northeast over the Bay of Bengal. The clouds of the storm itself weren't optically visible in the darkness of a nearly new Moon, but lightning flashes within it were... as ...

Ancient Lost World Found in Honduran Jungle

15 hours ago - Archaeologists have discovered a lost civilisation deep in the jungles of Central America. The lost world resembles a "vast tended garden" and lies inland from the Mosquito Coast, an area known for swamps, poisonous plants and vipers that leap at their prey. The area was ...

Honeybees trained in Croatia to find land mines

16 hours ago - ZAGREB, Croatia — Mirjana Filipovic is still haunted by the land mine blast that killed her boyfriend and blew off her left leg while on a fishing trip nearly a decade ago. It happened in a field that was supposedly de-mined. Now, unlikely heroes may be coming to the rescue to ...

Angelina Jolie copied by men! Surgeons now cutting out healthy prostate glands of men who carry BRCA gene

17 hours ago - Beyond merely inspiring women to cut off healthy breasts just because they carry the BRCA1 gene, Angelina Jolie also seems to be inspiring men to remove some of their own reproductive organs as well. According to an IBtimes article, a British man is the first person to have had his ...

Four fireballs fall over U.S. in 24 hour period

17 hours ago - In the last 24 hours the AMS has received confirmed reports about 4 unique fireball events all occurring near 4:00 AM UTC time. The most recent event occurred in Arkansas and Missouri on May 19th near 3:37 UTC. At the same time 3:37 UTC 4 witnesses reported a fireball in Arizona. The ... 1

How the FBIs online wiretapping plan could get your computer hacked

1 day ago - The FBI is pushing for expanded power to eavesdrop on private Internet communications. The law enforcement agency wants to force online service providers to build wiretapping capabilities into their products. But a group of prominent computer security experts argues that mandating ...

Nanotechnology could help fight diabetes

1 day ago - Injectable nanoparticles developed at MIT may someday eliminate the need for patients with Type 1 diabetes to constantly monitor their blood-sugar levels and inject themselves with insulin. The nanoparticles were designed to sense glucose levels in the body and respond by ...

Aussie scientists print flexible solar panels

1 day ago - Australian scientists have found a way to print large but extremely lightweight and flexible solar panels like money. World-leading scientists at the CSIRO said the A3-sized panels, which are created by laying a liquid photovoltaic ink onto thin, flexible plastic could soon mean ...

Teen's invention could charge your phone in 20 seconds

1 day ago - Waiting hours for a cellphone to charge may become a thing of the past, thanks to an 18-year-old high-school student's invention. She won a $50,000 prize Friday at an international science fair for creating an energy storage device that can be fully juiced in 20 to 30 seconds. ... 4

British National Archives show a son was born to Obama Sr. in 1961 in Kenya

2 days ago - The [British] National Archives (BNA) is an executive agency of the government of the United Kingdom. Based in Kew in southwest London, the BNA is the UK government’s official archive, containing 1,000 years of history from Domesday Book to the present, with records from parchment ... 2

Earth's iron core is surprisingly weak, researchers say

2 days ago - The massive ball of iron sitting at the center of Earth is not quite as "rock-solid" as has been thought, say two Stanford mineral physicists. By conducting experiments that simulate the immense pressures deep in the planet's interior, the researchers determined that iron in Earth's ...