Canadian Scientist used deep brain stimulation in which doctors apply electricity directly to regions of the brain. In 2 Alzheimer’s disease patients, the brain’s memory hub reversed its expected decline and actually grew.
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Last week NASA announced a newly discovered planet, sitting outside our solar system in what seems to be the ideal place for life. The new planet is eerily similar to Earth.
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Last week, Sierra Leone, one of Africa’s poorest countries, announced the establishment of Gola Rainforest National Park. The park covers 175,000 acres and is located in southeastern Sierra Leone near the Liberian border.
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A 74 years old woman from Penn, was caught in the 2nd floor of her house last week, when the first floor was starting to get on fire. she screamed from help out of the 2nd floor window. Her neighbor, a 14 years old boy, heard the screams and ran to the house, placing an old wooden ladder next to the window. The old ladder broke and the woman fell but she was out of the house, suffering minor injuries.
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Starting January first, few of Chinese luxury hotels and popular restaurants will no longer be serving shark fin soup to help keep the species from becoming extinct.
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Andrew Hunter of Dawsonville, Ga, was throwing a lottery ticket he thought was worthless to the trash but later on had a second thought. He searched for the ticket and won a small prize of $3, while there he reinvested those $3 and won $250,000.
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UNAids latest report shows Aids-related deaths are down 21% and they are at the lowest level since their peak at 2005. Globally, the number of new HIV infections in 2010 was 21% down on that peak, seen in 1997.
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Jill Smokler from Maryland is running a parenting blog on which she was asking her readers to donate through her site to help families in need, she helped raise over $18,000. This money was going towards supermarket gift cards and helped providing dinner for 378 families who couldn’t afford it otherwise.
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Brian McGuinn, accidentally throw away his wife engagement ring which is a 1.5 carat diamond ring and was valued at around $10,000. Brian didn’t think twice, he jump into more than eight tons of garbage until he found the ring.
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Rachel Wheeler from Florida heard about the earthquake victims in a meeting she went with her mother 3 years ago and decided to help building houses for families who lost their homes. 3 years later Rachel raised over $250,000 and used most of it to open a new earthquake-proof cement structures that shelter 27 families.
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