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Fans make Clooney feel his good looks won’t last forever

Washington, September 18: Hollywood hunk George Clooney has revealed that time and again his fans make him realise that his good looks will not last forever.

Clooney revealed that each time he encounters a fan, he feels as if he were not present there.

"All those things are going to disappear one day and I know that every time I get confronted by fans. They'll talk about me as if I am not there. Like how much older I look in person or have all this grey hair," he said.

Statin drug helps unclog blood vessels from excess cholesterol, fats

Washington, Sep 18: Scientists have shed more light on the use of statins, by discovering how a statin drug used against heart disease helps to unclog blood vessels from an excess of cholesterol and fats.

Canadian researchers say that the results help explain how the drug works and may provide ways to improve similar drugs in the future.

When Jolie went to Disneyland while high on LSD

Washington, Sept 18: Angelina Jolie once took LSD, one of the most potent drugs, just before she took a trip to Disneyland.

The ‘Lara Croft’ star certainly felt the drug’s effects, for once at the theme park, she started imagining that Mickey Mouse was a ‘short, middle-aged man in a costume who hates life’.

"I remember taking LSD before I went to Disneyland. I started thinking about Mickey Mouse being a short, middle-aged man in a costume who hates life," Contactmusic quoted her, as saying.

Magellanic clouds are recent visitors to our Milky Way galaxy

Washington, Sept 18: Astronomers at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have shown that the Magellanic Clouds are recent arrivals to our galactic neighbourhood.

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) are two of the Milky Way's closest neighbouring galaxies. A stunning sight in the southern hemisphere, they were named after Ferdinand Magellan, who explored those waters in the 16th century.

For hundreds of years, these galaxies were considered satellites of the Milky Way, gravitationally bound to our home galaxy.

Reduced serotonin levels make women more depressed, men more impulsive

Washington September 18: Scientists have found that women and men respond differently to manipulation of serotonin levels, a biochemical whose reduced transmission has been implicated in major depressive disorder (MDD), a common mental disorder.  

The study published in Biological Psychiatry involved a technique called acute tryptophan depletion to decrease serotonin levels in the brains of healthy participants.

Cyprian honeybees kill invading hornets by smothering them

Washington, Sept 18: Cyprian honeybees kill their archenemy, the Oriental hornet by smothering them, a new study by entomologists in the recent issue of Current Biology, has revealed.

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