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Frauds such as online ponzi schemes have skimmed at least $11 million in Bitcoin deposits from unsuspecting cyber customers over the past four years, a study says.

Bitcoin is the digital world`s most popular virtual currency, with millions in circulation.

“Our calculation of $11 million is almost certainly at the low-end,” said lead researcher Marie Vasek from Southern Methodist University in the US.

“The amount of Bitcoin that depositors have lost to these scams is probably many millions more,” Vasek added.

Being slim seems to make a woman happier than any man could, for a new study has found that a female’s weight has a greater effect on her spirits than her love life does.

And, according to researchers, being obese leads to more misery and suffering than being single — while being thin provides more satisfaction than a relationship.

The 24-year study of the ups and downs of the lives of thousands of Germans between 1984 and 2008 found that a good home life is more important than a glittering career, the ‘Daily Mail’ reported.

A new research has recently shown that men take twice more selfies and share them online as compared to women.

The smartphone company HTC surveyed 2,000 Britishers and found that a quarter of men shares selfies to make their ex or current partner jealous, the Daily Star reported.

The researchers found that men post an average of three self portraits each week as compared to women who post 1.6 pictures.

While infants sleep, they are reprocessing what they have learnt during the day, a study has found.

Working with researchers from the University of Tubingen, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany discovered that babies of the age from nine to 16 months remember the names of objects better if they had a short nap.

And only after sleeping can they transfer the learnt names to similar new objects.

The infant brain thus forms general categories during sleep, converting experience into knowledge.

A new study of same and mixed-gender gaze patterns has found that women are viewed more frequently and for longer periods of time – even when their photos were blended in groups of both genders.

“What we found was that women overall were looked at more frequently. They were looked at first, they were looked at last and they were looked at for longer durations. This was the case for both male and female viewers,” said Mary Jean Amon, doctoral student in University of Cincinnati’s psychology programme.

Only a woman can express the intention of a man who touches her, a Delhi court has observed while dismissing a plea of a man seeking quashing of charges against him for allegedly outraging woman’s modesty.

The order came on a petition filed by a couple challenging a magisterial court’s order framing charges under IPC sections 354 (assaulting a woman to outrage her modesty), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 509 (insulting woman’s modesty through word or gesture), against them.

Girls who frequently consume sugary drinks tend to start their menstrual periods earlier than girls who do not, new research shows.

The team from the Harvard Medical School in the US looked at the relation between sugar-sweetened drinks and the age at which girls have their first period.

They followed 5,583 girls, aged 9-14 years between 1996 and 2001 and found that those who drank more than 1.5 servings of sugary drinks a day had their first period 2.7 months earlier than those who consumed two or fewer such drinks a week.

Over 13 million abortions are carried out in China every year with an increasing number of predominantly younger people choosing to end unwanted pregnancies, a media report said Wednesday.

Among female adolescents who have premarital sex, more than 20 percent have unwanted pregnancies, of which up to 91 percent end in abortion. The repeat abortion situation is particularly serious, People’s Daily said in a report.

Limit screen time and caffeine for your kids at bedtime if you want them to get quality sleep and perform better in life, says a study.

“Good quality and sufficient sleep are vital for children. Just like a healthy diet and exercise, sleep is critical for children to stay healthy, grow, learn, do well in school, and function at their best,” said Orfeu Buxton, associate professor at Pennsylvania State University.

Stress hormones in the mother can affect foetal development, a new study says.

To test whether high stress levels in pregnant mice had an impact on their offspring, pregnant mice received the natural glucocorticoid corticosterone at different times during pregnancy.

Researchers found that increased levels of glucocorticoid stress hormones in pregnant mice caused the mother to eat more but reduced the ability of the placenta to transport glucose to her foetus.

Feeling stressed during pregnancy is not good for fetal development, says a new study.

To test whether high stress levels in pregnant mice had an impact on their offspring, pregnant mice received the natural glucocorticoid corticosterone at different times during pregnancy, either from day 11 to 16 (20 females), from day 14-19 (31 females), or not at all (74 control females).

Researchers found that increased levels of glucocorticoid stress hormones in pregnant mice caused the mother to eat more but reduced the ability of the placenta to transport glucose to her foetus.

, Jan 25 (ANI): A new study has revealed that bisphenol A (BPA) exposure may put females at greater risk of damage from stress as compared to males.

The study from a University of Cincinnati (UC) found that heart function and blood pressure in mice exposed to BPA from birth though young adulthood are affected differently in males and females.

Researchers found that in young BPA exposed female mice, the heart is more sensitive to stress-induced ischemic damage in a way not observed in untreated female mice.

Ladies, excited about hitting the gym and shedding flab? Make sure you carry gym essentials like water bottle, hair ties and deodorant in your gym bag. Here’s a list of things that you should carry in your gym bag to add some style to your workout look.

Water bottle: It’s very important to keep yourself hydrated while working out. Carry a water bottle with you to the gym. You can take your pick from the many sleek and sporty options available in the market.

Transform your face by shaping your eyebrows in the right way.

Eonline.com suggests how:

Step one: Find the brows’ alignment with a pencil. Hold it up in front of the nose to where the pencil aligns with the centre of the nostrils and the high points of the Cupid’s bow.

Now take your brow product and meet your brows’ current bottom starting point and simply sketch or lightly swipe a line toward the nose, continuing at the angle of your natural brow. Repeat this step with the top part of the brow so that the two lines are parallel.

If you sleep well in your younger years, it may help keep your memory sharp once you cross 70 years of age, says a new study.
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If you sleep well in your younger years, it may help keep your memory sharp once you cross 70 years of age, says a new study.

Do you buy luxury products such as designer clothes that signal success and make you feel better? This type of retail therapy can actually backfire and leave you thinking more about your failures.

According to a team of researchers, this behaviour can strip consumers of their mental resources and impair their self-control.

“When consumers experience a psychological threat to how they would like to see themselves, buying products that signal accomplishment in the same area of their life could ironically cause them to dwell on their shortcomings,” the authors said.

Ten Maharashtra districts with a skewed child sex ratio figure in the “Beti Bachao Beti Padhao” scheme unveiled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday.

The scheme is scheduled for implementation in 100 selected districts across the country with a child sex ratio far below the national figure of 918 girls per 1,000 boys through the ministries of women and child development, human resource development and health.

Former Supreme Court judge A.K. Ganguly Thursday condemned the alleged torture of a woman by West Bengal police, and expressed anguish over the state human rights commission’s failure to take action in the incident that has attracted widespread criticism.

Ganguly, the former chairperson of the West Bengal Human Rights Commission, also criticised the Mamata Banerjee government for “siding with criminals”.

One of the oldest woman in the UK believes that the secret to long life is eating lots and lots of porridge and most importantly staying away from men.

The spinster celebrated her 109 birthday on January 2 with lunch and a slice of cake at the Crosby House care home
in Aberdeen.

Jessie Gallan puts her old age down to avoiding men and also a daily helping of porridge each morning.

“My secret to a long life has been staying away from men. They’re just more trouble than they’re worth,” she was quoted
by The Mirror as saying.

The truth why your wife is more emotionally expressive than you is out: Her brain processes emotions differently than yours.

This is the result of a large-scale study by a research team at University of Basel in Switzerland that found that women rate emotional images more intensely than men and are more likely to remember them.

With the help of 3,398 participants, the researchers were able to demonstrate that females rated emotional image content – especially negative content – as more emotionally stimulating than their male counterparts did.

Does your boss yell, ridicule or intimidate you at times? Just ignore him if you want to get equal.

According to a new study, employees felt less like victims when they retaliated against their bad bosses and, as a result, experienced less psychological distress, more job satisfaction and more commitment to their employer.

“Before we did this study, I thought there would be no upside to employees who retaliated against their bosses, but that’s not what we found,” said Bennett Tepper, professor of management and human resources at the Ohio State University in the US.

A Canadian survey has revealed that women go for one-night stands for fun and the emotional factor comes later.

“The person’s physical appearance turned me on” was rated as the top reason for women opting for casual sex. The number two and number three reasons for casual sex were “It feels good” and “I was horny”, respectively.

“To my knowledge, this is the first study to specifically compare physical and emotional reasons for casual sex,” study’s co-author Heather Armstrong from University of Ottawa told the National Post. The team surveyed 510 women for the study.

An 18-year-old teenager from US is in the news for planning to marry her father after a consensual sexual relationship.

The teenager, who was raised by her mother, asserted that on first meeting, she thought her father was so good looking and one afternoon, a playful wrestling match became full-blown sex, News.com.au reported.

The teen continued that they both had orgasms and they are so similar, so it’s so easy to sexually please each other.

The father-daughter couple that is involved in Genetic Sexual Attraction needs to move interstate to avoid laws that ban adult incest.

When the sun is not shining bright and the gloomy winter weather makes you feel dull, add a dash of brightness and style with pop colours, balanced just right with the regular black, blue, beige and grey wardrobe items, young designers suggest.

People often tend to associate darker hues with the winter season as they absorb more light and keep one warm, but in the option of layering in winter, why opt for limited colours only?

Fed up of trying every fad diet, and getting nowhere? It’s time to try carrying a mirror to remind you of your weight, and stop making excuses for your eating habits.

Weight loss guru Steve Miller says ditching the diet can help if certain rules are followed in day-to-day life, reports mirror.co.uk.

* Carry a mirror: In order to eat healthily, it’s really important to watch your portion sizes. To help you do this, carry a mirror everywhere you go, ensuring you remind yourself of how fat you are, which will automatically motivate you to eat less.