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fitmodo
The Xbox One’s Secret Killer Feature: Getting You in Shape

Yes, the new Xbox One is highly covetable for many reasons. But once you get past the games and the promise of TV integration down the line, oh, and the rumbling controllers, you finally land on what might be its most useful purpose: The world's most sophisticated workout gadget. Read More >>

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giz explains
How Suncream Works (and Why You’re Wrong About It)

Your skin shouldn't look like a package of pork cracklins after spending the day outdoors; that's why we invented suncream. However, there's a right way and a wrong way to slather on your protection — screw it up and you could get burned. Read More >>

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health
Now You Can Get Your Caffeine Hit From Your Toothbrush in the Morning

Why wait for your coffee in the morning when your toothbrush can juice you up with caffeine instead? Colgate's apparently trying just that. Read More >>

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giz explains
Why Your Ears Pop (and What to Do If They Don’t)

Flying sick was a bad choice. Your congested ears refuse to pop and now you're stuck on an international flight, cruising at 30,000 feet of ear-splitting agony. Here's how to fix it. Read More >>

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space
The Dust On Mars Would Be Dangerous To Human Visitors

It's going to take more than a Swiffer to deal with this situation. Researchers and public health experts at the Humans 2 Mars Summit (H2M) grappled with the question of how to deal with Martian dust if a manned mission to Mars could actually get off the ground by 2030. Read More >>

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apple
Your iPad Smart Cover Could Switch Off a Pacemaker

The little magnets sure make the iPad's Smart Covers useful — but they could switch off pacemakers, too, if a new series of experiments is anything to go by. Read More >>

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health
Scientists Are Making Oysters Safe to Eat With Electron Beams

You know what's a turn on? Oysters. You know what's a turn off? Vomit. Oysters might be a delicious aphrodisiac, but they have a tendency to be pretty unsanitary and they can make you sick. But researchers at Texas A&M University have found a way pasteurise the bivalves using electron beams, getting rid of some of the stuff that causes you to upchuck. Read More >>

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fitmodo
Breathing Smarter For Better Performance

During any form of physical exertion, most people don't think about breath until they're gasping for it. The most advanced exercisers among us are conscious of trying to breathe lower, into their bellies. But there's an even better way, and making this simple switch will get more oxygen into your blood, faster. Read More >>

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science
Scientists Have 3D-Printed Mini Human Livers for the First Time Ever

The dream of one day completely doing away with frustratingly long transplant lists in favour of made to order, 3D-printed organs is closer to becoming a reality. Scientists at Organovo in San Diego have, for the very first time, been able to 3D print tiny replicas of human livers. Read More >>

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gaming
Doctors Use Tetris to Actually Cure Eye Ailments

Shock good news about video games! When they're not training us to cold-heartedly murder people with guns, explosives and knives, video games might actually be useful in treating eye problems thanks to work by doctors who have successfully treated lazy eyes with good old Tetris. Read More >>

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science
This Lab-Grown Kidney Can Keep Rats — and Maybe Even You — Alive

For the first time ever, a whole lab-grown kidney has been successfully transplanted into a rat, where it allowed the creature to process urine like a really kidney would — and it could someday save your life. Read More >>

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health
Science Proves That ‘Old Sober’ Hangover Cure Actually Works

According to new data from the University of California, presented at a meeting of the American Chemical Society, one of the legendary hangover cures from New Orleans (via Korea) actually works. It'll help you get over your hangover much, much faster, but unfortunately it's not a bacon sandwich. Read More >>

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medicine
Scientists Link Red Meat Chemical to Heart Disease

A team of US scientists has identified a link between a chemical called carnitine, found in red meat, and increased risk of heart disease. Read More >>

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science
Sequence Your DNA In an Hour on This Tiny Chip

Diagnosing genetic disorders and devising personalised therapies just got a lot easier, or at least quicker. Panasonic and Belgian research lab IMEC have created a small chip that tests DNA in under an hour. Read More >>

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food
How Much Sugar Really Is in Food?

Sugar is sweet, sugar is delicious, sugar is lovely but sugar can be so terribly bad for you. How much sugar is in foods and drinks you love? Like a soda or orange juice or cereal or even baked beans? Sugar is everywhere! That white cocaine powder adds up. BuzzFeed made a video visualising the actual grams of sugar in each food and to see the actual snuff is dizzying. Fruit Loops over "healthy" cereal everyday now! [BuzzFeed] Read More >>