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Marry men your own age or risk an early death

Fri, 05/14/2010 - 11:26 by Samia Sehgal

Women who couple up with younger men are bound to have shorter lives, says a new research. Men, on the other hand, raise their life expectancy by pairing up with younger girls.

People do walk in circles when lost

Fri, 08/21/2009 - 22:36 by surajdogra

Tubingen, Germany -- People really do walk in circles when they don't have visual cues to tell them where to head, scientists in Germany said.

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tubingen examined the routes of people who walked for several hours in Tunisia's Sahara desert and Germany's Bienwald forest.

Using global positioning systems to record the trajectories, scientists found the walkers were only able to keep to a straight path when the moon or sun was visible. As soon as the moon or sun disappeared behind clouds, the participants began walking in circles without knowing it, researcher Jan Souman said in a release Friday.