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• Common cosmetic and sunblock ingredient, titanium dioxide, may have potential health risks
• New early detection test for prostate cancer
• Fetching faces and friendly foxes
• When the going gets tough, the materialistic go shopping
• Tweets reveal news readership patterns around the world

Common cosmetic and sunblock ingredient, titanium dioxide, may have potential health risks Posted: 25 Sep 2013 10:06 AM PDT Using a particular type of titanium dioxide -- a common ingredient in cosmetics, food products, toothpaste and sunscreen -- could reduce the potential health risks associated with the widely used compound.

New early detection test for prostate cancer Posted: 25 Sep 2013 10:03 AM PDT A new urine test that improves on PSA screening for prostate cancer is now available. The test incorporates three specific markers that could indicate cancer and studies have shown that the combination is far more accurate than PSA alone.

Fetching faces and friendly foxes Posted: 25 Sep 2013 08:25 AM PDT 'What is beautiful is good' -- but why? A recent article provides a compelling physiological explanation for the 'beauty stereotype' - why human beings are wired to favor the beautiful ones.

When the going gets tough, the materialistic go shopping Posted: 25 Sep 2013 07:30 AM PDT Materialistic people experience more stress from traumatic events such as terrorist attacks and are more likely to spend compulsively as a result, according to an international study.

Tweets reveal news readership patterns around the world Posted: 25 Sep 2013 06:22 AM PDT In a new article, researchers used data collected from Twitter to study readers' news preferences across the globe and discovered that different countries have stronger preference towards different types of articles -- American and British readers are more drawn to opinion and world news, Spaniards to local and national news, Brazilians to sports and arts, and Germans to politics and economy.

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