Author: Trebuchet News

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Compartment Syndrome

Compartment Syndrome: A young, healthy man injured himself so severely while weight lifting that he required surgery and nearly a full week in the hospital to recover...

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Statement from Edward Snowden in Moscow

Statement from Edward Snowden in Moscow. 1st July 2013 ...

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Divorce and the Damage Done

Divorce early in childhood affects parental relationships in adulthood...

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Bloodstock Day Tickets on Sale

Bloodstock Day Tickets on Sale...

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Less Sleep Makes You Fat

Chronic sleep restriction among adults with late bedtimes may be associated with weight gain due to the consumption of extra calories during late-night hours....

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Every Wi-Fi a Camera

New development can give all of us the ability to spot people in different rooms using low-cost Wi-Fi technology. ...

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Coenzyme Q10 is really good for you.

Coenzyme Q10 decreases all cause mortality by half in randomized double blind trial...

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My Drugs Ate My Kids

A significant spike in the number of young children treated for accidentally eating marijuana-laced cookies, candies, brownies and beverages...

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Turning Cement into Metal

Scientists have unraveled the formula for turning liquid cement into liquid metal....

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Robot Arse Teaches Students Crap

Former UC Riverside student builds replica human colon (Robot Arse) and feeds it three times per day....

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Beer Robot Reads Minds

Beer Robot has learnt to foresee human action in order to step in and offer a helping hand, or more accurately, roll in and offer a helping claw....

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Isle of Man Festival Cancelled

Isle of Man Festival Cancelled - 2013 ...

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Hospital Deaths Occur Near Weekends

Patients undergoing planned surgery appear more likely to die if they have their operation at the end of the week. Can we stop hospital deaths ? ...

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Chimps Cash Their Chance Chips

Chimpanzees, bonobos exhibit emotional responses to outcomes of decision-making. Chimps Cash ? It's bananas of course....

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Quantum Couples Go The Distance

Quantum coupling model demonstrates that it is possible for two particles to cross an energy barrier together, where a single particle could not. ...

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Laziest Exercise Regime Ever

12 minutes of a high-intensity exercise regime resulted in statistically significant improvements in fitness....

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Scabs inspire healthy

Human scabs have become the model for development of an advanced wound dressing material that shows promise for speeding the healing process...

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Matthew Herbert Crafts Syrian Violence

Based on Syrian sample Matthew Herbert is set to release his new work 'The End of Silence' on Monday 24th June via his own Accidental label....

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Beating a Lie Detector Test

People can suppress incriminating memories and thereby avoid detection in brain activity to 'fool' a lie detector test....

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Fat foods and the Nordic diet

A healthy Nordic diet lowers cholesterol levels, and therefore the risk of cardiovascular disease, a pan-Nordic study where Lund University participated has found...

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Ancient Egyptian Meteorites

Egyptian Meteorites symbolic accessories for Ancients...

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The Holographic Principle

According to holography (the holographic principle of reality), at a fundamental level the universe has one less dimension than we perceive in everyday life and is governed by laws similar to...

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Magnetic Nanoparticles

New research in The FASEB Journal suggests that with magnetic guidance, specially designed magnetic nanoparticles can help deliver genes to injured arteries, using stents as the delivery platform...

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Catching HIV

Public health officials in New York City have launched a successful program to locate HIV -positive patients and reconnect them with treatment service....

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Minority Drinks

African-American and Latino children may be replacing soda with 100 percent fruit juice while their white peers are not. Minority Drinks are Sweet apparently. ...

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Steeleye Span to Play Cambridge

Steeleye Span to Play Cambridge Folk Festival 27th July 2013...

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Cop shoot Cop

While occupational homicides continue to decline in the U.S., law enforcement remains one of the deadliest jobs in America. ...

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Animal Cognition

Animal Cognition: According to standard theory, the best response to current circumstances should be unaffected by what has happened in the past...

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Wedding Bells for Kid Congo Powers

Kid Congo Powers announces his marriage to Ryan Hill...

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I like your Big Feet

The Karo Batak, who mostly live in scattered rural villages in the northern part of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, deem women with big feet as more appealing....

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