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FOXNews.com - Science
Wed Oct 25, 2006
- If you're man thinking about having kids, you might want to cut back on your cell phone use.
- Erotic pictures affect brain's performance, even when the subject isn't aware he or she is looking at it; straight men reacted stronger to pictures of women; gay men reacted to pictures of men.
- One of Sun's hundreds, or even thousands of 'sibling' stars exploded less than 5 light-years away as Sun was forming about 4.6 billion years ago.
- New research on vegetables and aging gives mothers another reason to say "I told you so." It found that eating vegetables appears to help keep the brain young and may slow the mental decline sometimes associated with growing old.
- Ethiopia to let priceless australopithecine remains travel around America, with money from the deal going back home.
- 'Microhand' so tiny that when clenched into fist, it measures little over one millimeter across, roughly as thick as dime.
- Scientists say metallic smell associated with coins comes from iron mixing with human skin oil.
- The kouprey, Cambodia's national animal, is just hybrid of two different species of domestic cattle, according to DNA researchers.
- After 20 years of planning, Harlem playground named for shuttle astronaut Ronald E. McNair finally opened.
- Quarry on northern end of Lake Champlain provides perfect view of section of Chazy Reef, formed 480 million years ago.
- Iceland broke a two-decade-long moratorium on commercial whaling Sunday with the killing of an endangered fin whale.
