You can turn off such targeted ads with a single option in your Facebook settings. Doing so means, for example, that you won’t get an ad on Facebook for a pair of shoes you just looked at on a shopping website, though you’ll still get generic ads. Facebook also adds targeting categories based on your demographic information, such as whether you might have a child, your birthday and age, what mobile device you use and even your political leanings — whether or not you’ve explicitly shared any…

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They found that men who lit up once a day had 46 percent of the excess risk of heart disease associated with smoking a full pack a day, much higher than expected."This seems to be the case for lung cancer, but is not true for heart attacks and stroke, where one cigarette per day carries around 50 percent of the risk of a pack a day," he told AFP."

This well conducted study confirms what epidemiologists have suspected but few among the public have," commented University of Oxford professor… Continue

The scientists conducted the research through question-asking behaviour at the 2015 International Congress for Conservation Biology.Dr Amy Hinsley, the papers lead-author said, "Previous research has shown that men are more likely to be invited to speak at conferences, which is likely to lead to them having a higher social reputation than their female peers. Therefore, regardless of the reason for the gender differences, the fact they exist may be another factor in favour of men in the…

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"Joining together the research, development, application and manufacture of energy storage technologies – and specifically battery storage – is a huge opportunity for the energy sector and the automotive sector alike," Clark said in a speech in Birmingham.The scheme, which allows those in business and academia to apply for government funds to work on a range of possible electric battery schemes, is part of Britains industrial strategy which Prime Minister Theresa May published in…

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