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Well, Omega-3 supplements, that is!

It's true, a new study is showing that those fish oil pills you've been taking haven't been doing anything at all — it shows that the supplements don’t lower users’ risks of heart attack, stroke, sudden death or death from heart disease or any cause.

Part of the study had scientists reviewing 20 studies dating back to 1989 that involved 68,680 participants. So it wasn't small by any means.

So what's up with the conclusion now vs. what it was in the past?

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Imagine this: you need an organ, but there aren't any available to you. The organ store is fresh out of organs, because they just had a huge organ sale.

What do you do?

Well, if these scientist have their way… you build one!

Tags: business, cause, creating, cyborgs, drugs, gross, health, labs, nanotubes, organs, potential, science, scientists

There is a gene in women that helps produce happiness, and researchers have just found it!

Low expression of the gene MAOA (monoamine oxidase A) was associated with increased happiness in adult females — but not in men.

Here's what the researchers said:

“…[L]ow expression of MAOA has been related to some negative outcomes like alcoholism, aggressiveness and anti-social behavior. It’s even called the warrior gene by some scientists; but, at least for women, our study points to a brighter side of this gene.”

Ouch, it's a double edged sword!

It was a relatively small study, though — they analyzed the DNA of 193 women and 152 men, cross-checking the results with the participants’ self-reported happiness scores.

If you're wondering how MAOA works, it's like antidepressants. It helps to break down neurotransmitters such as serotonin and dopamine.

Weirdly enough, this could account for the paradox between men and women that women report more anxiety and mood disorders than men, but have more happiness too.

Science is AWESOME!

We wonder what kind of help for depression this will lead to!

[Image via AP Images.]

Tags: alcohol, alcoholism, anxiety, awesome, break, depression, disorder, female, happiness, increase, research, researchers, results, science, scientists, study, weird, women

Scientists have declared that because of water scarcity and the rapidly growing global population that humanity might have to go completely vegetarian to survive the next half century.

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A computer scientist at Oxford recently read the brainwaves of test subjects using a standard brainwave reader (EEG) and a video game controller!

So instead of celebrity phone hacking scandals, are we looking at celeb brain hacking?!

The study had participants look at numbers, names, logos and people.

The researchers were looking for something called a P300 response, a specific brainwave pattern that happens when someone relates to or recognizes something.

So they can't go in your brain and retrieve information, but they could do something like show you sets of numbers and see if any of them are familiar. Like how credit card numbers or a social security number might be familiar.

This is only the very beginning of the technology but it's kinda scary people can sort of read your mind already.

Let's hope they invent Magneto's helmet before this technology gets perfected. LOLz!

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This is not good.

If you're over the age of 40, you should seriously take a moment to decide whether fathering a child at that point is the right thing to do.

A new study is saying that kids from older dads are more likely to develop

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The Monster Shark Tournament takes place in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts every year.

It's a very controversial event because

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