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  • Vitamin D from sun may treat asthma says study

    Time spent by asthma patients soaking up the sun may help in the treatment of the illness, a research has said. A team of scientists at King's College London said vitamin D, which is made by the body in sunlight, calms an "over-active" part of the immune system in asthma, BBC reported. However, treating patients with vitamin D has not yet been tested. People with asthma find it hard to ...

  • Need more freedom for filmmaking in India Anurag Kashyap

    India's rising star director Anurag Kashyap has complained that filmmakers in in the country still do not enjoy the kind of freedom of space and expression that would allow them to make meaningful films. "Today, we are forced to treat our audience as children of less than five years and hence we have to only make goody-goody films with a huge dose of escapism. I want to have the option making ...

  • Mice and lizard return after a month in space

    A Russian capsule, which had mice and lizards as its occupants, returned to Earth on Sunday after spending a month in space. According to scientists, the experiment was conducted to test effects of weightlessness and other factors of space flight on the cell structure, Fox News reported. Russian state television showed the capsule and some of its inhabitants following its safe landing in a ...

  • Experts Convene On Uncertainties Of Global Water Resources

    erosion , applied massive quantities of nitrogen that leaks from soil to ground and surface waters and, sometimes, literally siphoned all water from rivers, emptying them for human uses before they reach the ocean," he continued. "We have diverted vast amounts of freshwater to harness fossil energy, dammed major waterways, and destroyed aquatic ecosystems.'; To raise awareness ...

  • Tim Peakes space station mission could put a rocket under Britains economy

    Link to video: Tim Peake to become first official British astronaut to visit International Space Station There is the urge to explore the endless heavens, there are the mysteries of the starry cosmos to solve, but above all there is the faltering economy to revive.Of all the reasons nations give for sending their citizens ...

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I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry

I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry

In I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, Adam Sandler and Kevin James play Chuck Levine and Larry Valentine, two uber-masculine, unfailingly heterosexual New York City firefighters who pretend to be a married gay couple so that Larry can keep his pension ... ...

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  • Tim Bosma case More remains found on suspects farm

    Bosma's widow: 'I am broken' More remains have been found on the property of a man accused in the death of Tim Bosma. According to local reports, forensic investigators discovered the remains at Dellen Millard's farm outside of Waterloo. It's not immediately clear if the remains are human or animal. ...

  • Teens science project could charge phones in 20 seconds

    An 18-year-old's science fair project leads her to create an improved supercapacitor with technology that could provide super-fast phone charging in the ...

  • Library program promotes science creativity

    Amy Yoon, 3, plays with puppets at the Northbrook Public Library on May 15. In the library's revamped game-day program, she will learn to experiment with scientific projects using constructive toys that the library is ...

  • Why penguins dumped flight for flippers

    Robert Ricklefs at the University of Missouri at St Louis and his colleagues studied 41 murres in flight, they found the birds consumed 146 watts per kilogram of body weight. That is almost three times as much energy as the bar-headed goose, previously considered the least efficient flying ...

  • B vitamins may slow the advance of Alzheimers

    We already know that a high level of the amino acid homocysteine in the blood is a risk factor for Alzheimer's, and that B vitamin supplements help reduce homocysteine levels. But it was unclear whether or not these supplements would slow the progression of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to ...

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