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According to a new study, listing to music on your iPod for hours could damage your hearing. The study was published in the journal Archives of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery. This is a serious warning for many people who are addicted to iPods or MP3 players. This gadget could do irreversible damage to your hearing, the study claims. The study looked at a group of people aged between 19 and [...]

Few weeks ago, president Barack Obama stopped all deepwater oil drilling because of the oil spill in the gulf of Mexico. This “man made disaster” cost many people’s jobs, damaged tourism industry, in addition to harming priceless coastal habitat and wildlife. But the federal court in Louisiana announced today that they are going to lift a six-month moratorium on deep-water oil drilling [...]

Warned by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) – According to The Daily Telegraph -  our solar system might have a volcanic solar storms that might cause damage to a large space and might also affect our planet earth. The storm, may cause extensive outages in electricity and  disruption of communication signals for long periods. It could increase the temperature of local [...]

The reason why I was inspired to write this article, was because of Burj Khalifa in Dubai. I am sure that most of you have heard about this stunning work of art. If not, you will learn about as it ranks number one in my list. The first time I saw the skyscraper I said OMG, is this heaven or what? I watched the opening ceremony live few months ago, it was astonishing. This list includes the top 5 [...]

Do you brush your teeth regularly? if not, then this story might convince you to start the habit, as it did to me. A new discovery suggests that people who perform this essential of oral hygiene regularly, have much lower risk of developing heart disease than people who ignore it. “We were surprised to find a relationship between toothbrushing frequency and both cardiovascular disease and inflammatory [...]

Genetically engineered goats are not capable of producing silk. Thanks to molecular biologists Randy Lewis who figured out how to put the spider silk making gene into goats. “There’s a lot of interest in spider silk fibers because they’re stronger than almost any other man-made fiber and they’re also elastic,” says Randy Lewis. This breakthrough discovery could be very [...]

Obesity, especially child obesity, has become a very common health problem in the United States over the past three decades. Being obese, leads to many other health problems that are sometimes very difficult to treat. Someone who is 40% overweight is twice as likely to die prematurely as is an average-weight person. This is because obesity has been linked to several serious medical conditions, including, [...]

Few months ago, NASA unveiled their new super quit, and smooth one-person air plane at the American Helicopter Society meeting in San Francisco. They called it the “Puffin”; its has 10 times eduction in noise from the quietest helicopters today, and  electric. No one has ridden the air the Puffin yet, but there is a video demonstration of how it looks like. NASA has spent about $500,000 [...]