Italian fertility specialist Severino Antinori says three women are currently pregnant with clones. “There are three pregnancies,” Antinori says. Two of them are in Russia and one in an “Islamic state,” according to Antinori. He says that they are six to nine weeks along. Antinori achieved fame a few years ago by helping a 62-year-old woman become pregnant with a donated egg.
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An epidemic of coral bleaching is effecting the world?s largest coral reef: the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. An extensive survey of the Great Barrier Reef carried out over the last month has revealed “widespread bleaching”, says Terry Done, chief conservation scientist at the Australian Institute of Marine Science. This is happening here for second time in four years and is also spreading through the coral islands of the South Pacific.

Coral bleaching occurs when high sea temperatures force the algae that give coral its red color out of the coral polyps. Usually, bleached coral recovers in the next cool season, but if all the algae are lost, the coral will die and the reefs will crumble.
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Bread, biscuits, potato chips and french fries contain alarmingly high quantities of acrylamide, a substance believed to cause cancer, according to Swedish scientists. The research carried out at Stockholm University in cooperation with Sweden’s National Food Administration, a government food safety agency, shows that when carbohydrate-rich foods are heated, they form acrylamide, a substance that has been classified as a probable human carcinogen.
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Weather fluctuations can have subtle and dangerous effects on your health, including a small increased risk of stroke, cancer or mental illness.

After looking at 3,289 first-time stroke sufferers in Dijon, France, researchers found there were fewer strokes in warmer months and more strokes overall when there was a drop in temperature five days beforehand. French neurologist Dominique Minier says the underlying mechanisms are not clear, but theorizes that temperature drops may affect the way that blood clots, increasing stroke risk.

Mental health may be effected by the weather too. Too little sun during winter months can lead to depression in some people. Now we know that our brains can be influenced by weather before we even leave the womb.
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