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Med Schools Fail At Teaching Gay, Lesbian Health to Students

Individuals of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered (LGBT) community represent a growing portion of the world's population, yet when it comes to caring for these individuals, medical training seems to fall short. According to a new study, medical schools set aside an average of only seven hours for topics related to the health care needs of LGBT patients.
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Smallest Electric Motor Created From Single Molecule

In a demonstration, E. Charles Sykes from the Tufts University, Boston, operated an electric motor made entirely of a single molecule. Measuring just a nanometer in length, according to a report in the New Scientist, the tiny motor has more substance than size.
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India-Pakistan Divide Captured from the International Space Station (Photo)

NASA's Earth Observatory has released a photo of the border between India and Pakistan taken from the International Space Station. The striking orange line depicting the hostile Asian border, however, is not a product of photoshop. This is the fenced and floodlit border zone between India and Pakistan. The fence is designed to discourage smuggling and arms trafficking and shows how divided the two nations are.
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Mystery of Female Orgasm Continues to Baffle Evolutionary Science

Evolutionary biologists have postulated several hypotheses about the role, if any, of the female orgasm in the reproductive process, for decades. One among the well known evolutionary theories, says that female orgasm is a by-product of ongoing selection on the male orgasm and ejaculation system. However, results of a survey conducted recently by researchers at the University of Queensland challenge the by-product theory of female orgasm.
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Slowing Down White Dwarfs at High Risk of Explosion

Like the fictitious time bomb in the Hollywood blockbuster Speed, rigged to blow up the bus in which it was planted it slowed below 50 mph, some white dwarf stars when slowed down from their rapid spins may explode as supernova, astronomers say.
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This Sperm Donor has ‘Fathered’ 150 Offspring

Seven years ago Cynthia Daily and her partner used a sperm donor for conceive a baby, and they hoped that one day their son would get to know some of his half siblings - an extended family for modern times.
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FDA Recommends Against Bayer and J&J Anti-Clot Drug

The Food and Drug Administration has recommended against an immediate approval for Bayer AG and Johnson & Johnson’s anti-clotting drug, Xarelto, as a treatment to prevent strokes in patients with atrial fibrillation.
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U.S. Smoking Rate Keeps Dropping: CDC

The prevalence of smoking in the U.S. has fallen over the last five years, but not at a steady rate, as per a study by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Thousands of 'Time Bombs' Ticking in Milky Way

Researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CFA) suggest that some old stars are held together by their super-fast spins and can explode as supernovae once their rapid spins slow down.

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