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| The X factor |
| The male-female divide is wider than even experts thought so far, reports Prasun Chaudhuri |
| Feminists are going gaga over the finding, triumphantly bubbling with an I-told-you-so air: Men really are the simple creatures they appear. Male chauvinists, too, haven?t given up brushing aside the exuberant reaction, saying, ?We?re right in branding females as different from [read inferior... |
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| Courtship game solves a puzzle |
| This is a copybook example of cooperative courtship. Subordinate wild turkeys help their dominant brothers find eager mates, rather than looking for t
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| Vampire bats? unique power |
| Bats lost the ability to run at least 60 million years ago, when their forelimbs became more adapted for flying. But a new study suggests that the Vam
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| Reason behind rhyme |
| Karl Mahlburg, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, US, is very happy, for he has solved a puzzle that?s 75 years old. We in
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| Swiss army knife |
When Alan Lomax and his father, John, began making their famous field recordings of Southern folk singers in the 1930s, they had to build their 350-pound recording machine into the back of their Ford. It etched the songs of cowboys and former slaves ... | Read..
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| QED: What?s a peer review?
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Some of India?s top doctors who claim they have used stem cells to treat patients with heart disease have got their work highlighted in the media before publication in a peer-reviewed medical journal. A research team at the All India Institute of Medi
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Peter Goodchild
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Airplane cabins contain less oxygen per person than virtually any other public
place. Passengers remain stationary for hours, inhaling and exhaling ? coughing
and sneezing ? together. No wonder many of the 1 billion passengers worldwide
travelling an ... | 
