Teen Pregnancy Rates By State
Posted on April 5, 2023
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| Patria Henriques
The rates of teenage pregnancy, birth and abortion have been declining in every U.S. state, and in all racial and ethnic groups, but disparities remain. Here are the rates of teen pregnancy in each state from 2010, from the highest (New Mexico) to the lowest (New Hampshire), according to the Guttmacher Institute.
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1. New Mexico – 80/1,000
2. Mississippi – 76/1,000
3. Texas – 73/1,000
[Read More]Unrelenting Sex Drive May Signal Deadly Rabies
Posted on April 5, 2023
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| Fernande Dalal
A 28-year-old woman in India came to her doctor with an unusual complaint: a sudden and persistent increase in her sex drive. She felt constantly aroused, often with no stimulation at all.
Unable to find an explanation, the woman's physician and gynecologist referred her to the department of emergency medicine at the Sri Gokulam Hospital and Research Institute in Salem, Tamil Nadu. Four days later, she was dead.
What disease could take a woman from distressing sexual symptoms to death in less than a week?
[Read More]What If the Sun Were Half as Big?
Posted on April 5, 2023
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| Fernande Dalal
During the new DC Comics Universe series "Flashpoint," in which a time-traveling supervillain alters the past to warp the present, Life's Little Mysteries presents a 10-part series that examines what would happen if a major event in the history of the universe had gone just slightly different.
Part 8: What if ... the sun were half as massive?
The sun's temperature, color and diameter are determined by its mass. Bigger stars are hotter and bluer than the whitish-yellow sun, while smaller stars are cooler and redder.
[Read More]World's Deepest Volcanic Eruption Creates Nightmare Garden of Glass
Posted on April 5, 2023
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| Arica Deslauriers
In December 2015, deep-sea researchers discovered a garden of glass on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Like a nightmarish Dale Chihuly exhibit, black tendrils of rapidly cooled lava poured out of an undersea volcano and hung frozen in the dark gallery of the Pacific, unable to fully crystallize in the cold water. The pillowy lava formations stretched out for 4.5 miles (7.3 kilometers), carpeting the floor of a trench nearly 3 miles (4.
[Read More]World's Oldest Stone Tools Predate Humans
Posted on April 5, 2023
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| Mittie Cheatwood
The oldest handmade stone tools discovered yet predate any known humans and may have been wielded by an as-yet-unknown species, researchers say.
The 3.3-million-year-old stone artifacts are the first direct evidence that early human ancestors may have possessed the mental abilities needed to figure out how to make razor-sharp stone tools. The discovery also rewrites the book on the kind of environmental and evolutionary pressures that drove the emergence of toolmaking.
[Read More]Boy Inhales Blowgun Dart
Posted on April 4, 2023
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| Patria Henriques
A 15-year-old boy in Ohio required a visit to the emergency room after he inhaled a dart from a homemade blowgun, according to a new report of his case.
The dart lodged in the boy's airway after he inhaled deeply while holding the blowgun in his mouth. Blowguns are designed to allow darts to be propelled outward by the force of an exhaled breath. The gun mostly consists of a narrow tube.
[Read More]California's Caldor Fire seen from space in harrowing satellite images (gallery)
Posted on April 4, 2023
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| Mittie Cheatwood
Caldor Fire nears Lake Tahoe The Caldor Fire, one of the largest in California's history, has been blazing in El Dorado County since Aug. 14, 2021.
It has since burned more than 200,000 acres of land and is now progressing toward the border of Nevada, near Lake Tahoe, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. See satellite images of the growing fire in this Space.com gallery.
The image above, captured Aug.
[Read More]Electrical 'storms' and 'flash floods' drown the brain after a stroke
Posted on April 4, 2023
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| Arica Deslauriers
Salty fluid regularly flushes through the brain to clear away toxins and waste, but after a stroke, this liquid floods the organ, drowning its cells.
Swelling in the brain, known as cerebral edema, occurs after stroke as water flows into brain cells and the space surrounding them. For years, scientists thought this excess fluid came from blood, but new evidence suggests that the water springs from another source entirely: the sodium-rich cerebrospinal fluid that permeates the brain.
[Read More]Hard to Swallow: Man's Missing Dentures Found in His Esophagus
Posted on April 4, 2023
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| Fernande Dalal
Eight days after a large piece of a man's acrylic denture went missing, it turned up in an unusual place: his esophagus.
The 55-year-old man in India had inadvertently ingested a part of his denture during an epileptic seizure he experienced while sleeping, according to a new report of the man's case, which was published online Sept. 30 in the journal BMJ Case Reports.
The man wasn't aware that he had had the seizure during the night, however, and when he woke up the next morning, he only noticed that one small piece of his denture was lying on his bedroom floor.
[Read More]Hidden Water Found on Hawaii’s Kilauea Could Mean Explosive Eruptions
Posted on April 4, 2023
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| Mittie Cheatwood
Hawaii's Kilauea volcano, which just quieted down after a 30-year active stint, harbors a previously unknown patch of water at the bottommost part of its crater, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. And it might have the potential to trigger explosive eruptions in the future.
A couple of weeks ago, a helicopter pilot flying over Kilauea noticed a small, green patch at the bottom of the volcano's crater. The pilot alerted his friend of the mysterious find, who then told his friend, Don Swanson, scientist emeritus at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, part of the U.
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