About 40 percent of the top selling sunscreens on Amazon.com don't meet the American Academy of Dermatology's guidelines for sunscreens. This was largely due to a lack of water or sweat resistance, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study.
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Plastic pollution threatens sea turtles.
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Hundreds of marine turtles die every year after becoming entangled in rubbish in the oceans and on beaches, including plastic 'six pack' holders and discarded fishing gear.
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Major internet services including Twitter, Spotify and Amazon suffered service interruptions and outages on Friday as a US internet provider came under a cyber attack.
The internet service company Dyn, which routes and manages internet traffic, said that it had...
AIDS deaths are falling in most countries worldwide, but the rate of new infections increased in several countries over the past decade, threatening to undermine efforts to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030, a new scientific paper shows.
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The Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo set a world record for creating a Canadian flag measuring about one one-hundredth the width of a human hair.
GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ granted the inaugural award for smallest national flag...
The HI-SEAS habitat on the northern slope of Mauna Loa in Hawaii where six people lived in isolation for a year in a NASA experiment to prepare for a journey to Mars
Six people who were isolated on a remote...
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On December 31, 2016, a "leap second" will be added to the world's clocks at 23 hours, 59 minutes 59 seconds Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). This corresponds to 6:59:59 pm Eastern Standard Time, when the...
Professor Ron Clarke busy excavating the Little Foot Skull from the Sterkfontein Caves.
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South Africa's status as a major cradle in the African nursery of humankind has been reinforced with today's unveiling of "Little Foot," the country's oldest,...
A detail of a painting entitled "Judith Beheading Holofernes" is pictured during its presentation in Paris, France, April 12, 2016, that might have been painted by Italian master Caravaggio (1571-1610) and was discovered in an attic in Toulouse and...
Variations of a new blue pigment were developed by chemists at Oregon State University, based on manganese.Credit: University of Oregon
A brilliant new blue pigment – discovered serendipitously by Oregon State University chemists in 2009 – is now reaching the...
Girl yelling (stock photo).
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When we see somebody suffering, we normally feel uneasy and want to help. However, this feeling can be reversed. When we know someone behaved in an antisocial manner, we can remain unsympathetic...
