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A team of researchers claim that they can create a mammoth from ancient DNA for $10 million and sell them to zoos around the world. The price seems high, but it’s around the same amount that museums have recently paid for dinosaur fossils.

They were able to get the DNA from hair taken from deep-frozen woolly mammoth carcasses. Though some parts of the DNA are missing, they have about 80% of it.

Hair is one of the best body parts to extract DNA from, since bone often contains fungi and bacteria. In BBC News, Paul Rincon quotes researcher Jeremy Austin as saying, “It’s a bit like trying to build a car with only 80% of the parts and knowing that some of the parts are already broken.”
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A mysterious UFO crash in Cyprus 35 years ago may finally be solved. In the Cyprus Mail, Nathan Morley quotes Britishsoldier Tom Clarke as saying, “We were all awoken at about 2 am by a brilliant bluish dazzling bright light in the sky, what happened next is hard to explain. There was not an explosion, but we were all hit by a shockwave and fell flat to the ground. The light just disappeared or went out.”
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You need BOTH to stave off cancer! – If you eat too much Thanksgiving dinner, remember this: exercise is good for more than just your waistline. Regular physical activity can lower a woman’s overall risk of cancer?but ONLY if she gets a good night’s sleep.

Cancer researcher James McClain says, “Greater participation in physical activity has consistently been associated with reduced risk of cancer?[but] short duration sleep appears to have opposing effects of physical activity?” In other words, a nap won’t do it.

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Maybe it’s the sports – Sports fans have a higher Body Mass Index (BMI) than do people who are less personally committed and emotionally involved with a sports team.?and it’s not just because they don’t get off the couch! For some mysterious reason, the guys who go to the ball park are just as unhealthy (could it be because hot dogs they eat there?)

Maybe gaining weight is all in the brain. Using brain imaging and chocolate milkshakes, scientists have found that people with weakened “reward circuitry” in their brains are at increased risk of weight gain over time. And if you eat quickly (wolf down your food), you?re TWICE AS LIKELY to get fat! Eating food in a stadium seat is something you do quickly, compared with dining in a restaurant or at home.read more