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'Infants can distinguish happy from sad melody' (10 October 08:18) |
| Hearing and feeling different beats is an early step in a baby's appreciation and perception of music, suggests a new study |
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Your DNA could reveal your surname (10 October 08:17) |
| In research with implications for forensics and genealogy, scientists here have been developing techniques that may allow police to work out a person's surname |
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Scientists on track to develop Spider-Man suit (10 October 08:16) |
| Researchers in the United States are on track to create a Spider-Man suit as scientists developed a material that is 10 times stickier than the feet of a lizard.
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Women more virtuous than men: Survey (10 October 06:01) |
| Women are more virtuous than men, suggests a survey which found that females outscore males on every moral conscience.
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Is anybody listening out there? (09 October 11:57) |
| Messages have been sent to a planet 20 light years from Earth in the hope they will reach intelligent alien life. |
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'Economic woes give planet a breather' (09 October 11:56) |
| A slowdown in the world economy may give the planet a breather from the excessively high carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions responsible for climate change |
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New painkiller better than morphine (09 October 11:55) |
| The cell protein suppresses pain eight times more effectively
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'Poetic adventurer touched by war that killed children' (09 October 11:54) |
| Amid debate over bias against US writers, Nobel goes to a French author
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Britons spend just 54 days of their life 'kissing' (09 October 06:48) |
| The average Briton spends 54 days of their life kissing -- but they actually pucker up far less after marriage, a new survey has revealed. |
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British men 'prefer women with smaller breasts' (09 October 05:45) |
| You might not agree, but a study has revealed that a large number of British men prefer women with smaller breasts. |
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Cell phones will now display lifelike images (09 October 03:39) |
| If texting, talking, e-mailing and snapping pictures on cell phones leaves you craving for more, you can now access or even display 3-D virtual reality simulations. |
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Passengers triple car crash risk for teen drivers (08 October 10:44) |
| Teenage drivers are three times more likely to have a crash if they are travelling with a group of friends as when driving alone, a study has found. |
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Glowing jellyfish bags Nobel (08 October 10:43) |
| Japanese, US duo awarded for the discovery of green fluorescent protein
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Electronic voting machines not foolproof, nor safe from hackers (08 October 03:55) |
| Students in an advanced computer security course at Rice University, Houston, are learning just how easy it is to break into software used in today's voting machines.
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Egg whites help labs grow 3-D cell cultures (08 October 03:51) |
| More and more labs are seeking to develop 3-D cell-culture systems that allow them to test new techniques and drugs in a medium that more closely mimics the way in which cells grow.
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Gamblers seek help only when it comes to the crunch (08 October 03:50) |
| Gamblers are motivated to seek help only in a crisis involving financial loss or hardship, often accompanied by psychological distress, according to a two-year research project.
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Now, computers to guess your age (07 October 11:23) |
| Computer scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a software program that estimates age based solely on someone's facial appearance |
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Human evolution over, says expert (07 October 11:22) |
| For those who dream of a better life, science has bad news: this is the best it is going to get. Our species has reached its biological pinnacle and is no longer capable of changing.
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Now, safer test for Down's (07 October 11:21) |
| Thanks to two new genetic tests, a drop of mother's blood could soon be all it takes to say if an unborn baby has Down's syndrome. |
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AIDS vaccine in 4 yrs, says Nobel laureate (07 October 11:20) |
| A vaccine that would prevent the HIV virus from progressing in the body could be ready by 2012, says Luc Montagnier |
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China hopes 'right person' wins peace honour (07 October 11:18) |
| China said it hoped the Nobel Peace Prize, due to be announced on Friday, will go to the "right person" after a Chinese dissident had been mentioned as a potential winner.
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Small asteroid hits earth on Tuesday (07 October 03:56) |
| It was a spectacular show in the sky early Tuesday morning, when a small asteroid entered the earth's atmosphere releasing a huge amount of light and energy before exploding.
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'Western man has stopped evolving' (07 October 03:36) |
| Man in the developed world has stopped evolving, a British genetics expert has said, because they no longer have to struggle to survive and natural selection does not come into play any more... |
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Dissidents in line for peace honour (06 October 10:44) |
| Activists fighting for rights in China, Russia and other countries are among those tipped by experts and bookmakers to win the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize |
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Two thirds of Britons do not know how to boil an egg (06 October 04:30) |
| Hard boiling an egg is perhaps one of the easiest things to do. But, two thirds of Britons do not know how to do it, a survey has revealed.
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Cave paintings took 20,000 yrs to finish (06 October 12:02) |
| It may have taken Michelangelo four long years to paint his fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, but his earliest predecessors spent considerably longer perfecting their own masterpi... |
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MIT's Smoot comes a long way (06 October 12:01) |
| The unit of length, created as part of a college prank, is part of Google calculator
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ISS changes orbit awaiting space tourist (06 October 12:00) |
| The orbital path of the International Space Station (ISS) was successfully adjusted Saturday to accommodate the landing of the world's sixth space tourist |
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Scientists develop guilt detector to nab crooks (05 October 11:59) |
| Drug smugglers may soon face a new hurdle along with sniffer dogs and custom officers - an electronic guilt detector which analyses facial expressions. |
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'Women medical students less confident than men' (04 October 03:17) |
| Women medical students feel less confident than men and suffer from increased anxiety over matters bearing on self-competence, according to a new study.
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New dinosaur discovered in Canada (03 October 06:02) |
| Canadian researchers have discovered fossils of a new horned dinosaur species which perished 72.5 million years ago.
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Pushy mums 'produce' confident daughters (02 October 05:33) |
| Like mother, like daughter. Pushy mums produce confident daughters, for a new study has revealed that women's success in life depends on how high their mothers expectations are.
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Major discovery in AIDS prevention by students (01 October 11:59) |
| A group of engineering students and a medical doctor are reported to have designed a simple 'shield' to block mothers transmitting the HIV virus to their babies while breastfeeding. |
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Microsoft sues purveyors of 'scareware' (01 October 11:33) |
| Firms sent fake pop-up messages to XP users which resembled system warnings
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No more fast forwarding through advertisments (01 October 10:59) |
| Television viewers will no longer be able to fast forward through advertisements under a new ITV plan to embed them in blank spaces during programmes |
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Kids 'are smarter if dads help in upbringing' (01 October 03:57) |
| Dads, please note -- the more time you spend with your child, the more intelligent the toddler is going to be, says a new study.
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Experience is best teacher for babies (01 October 02:27) |
| "Only recently have there been studies showing that active, hands-on experience is a more effective way of learning than watching." |
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Microbes on sea floor feasting merrily on oil (01 October 02:23) |
| Thousands of feet below the surface of the sea, off the shores of Santa Barbara, single-celled organisms are busy feasting on oil |
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Now, bad boys can blame their hormones! (01 October 01:34) |
| Teenage thugs can blame their chemicals for bad behaviour, for a new study has revealed that 'stress hormone' cortisol could be responsible for "aggressive anti-social conduct" in males. |
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Martian fossils hiding inside white rocks on Earth? (01 October 12:56) |
| Now, a new study suggests that evidence of Martian life can be traced even on Earth.
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Cells that refuse to self-destruct become cancerous (01 October 12:53) |
| When a cell's chromosomes lose their ends, it usually self-destructs to stem genetic damage. If it doesn't it becomes cancerous. |
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Researchers decode penicillin bug genome (30 September 11:20) |
| Researchers from Netherlands have decoded the DNA sequence of the fungus which produces penicillin. |
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Phoenix detects falling snow on Red Planet (30 September 10:29) |
| Snow falling from the Martian clouds have been detected by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, with possibilities of it even reaching the planet's surface. |
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MIT engineers sniff their way to a synthetic nose (30 September 10:18) |
| Scientists can now unlock how the olfactory sense can recognise a range of odours
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Bionic hands get sensitive (30 September 03:05) |
| Scientists in the US have developed new fingertips that could give prosthetic hands greater sensitivity, even allowing them to react "instinctively" to objects slipping from their grasp.
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'Scrubber' traps greenhouse gases directly from air (30 September 01:32) |
| Scientists are working on a technology to trap greenhouse gases directly from the air that could cut down emissions from transportation sectors. |
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Meat-eating dinosaur helps unravel mystery (30 September 01:32) |
| The remains of a big predatory dinosaur, discovered along Rio Colorado river banks in Argentina, is helping to unravel how birds evolved their unusual breathing system. |
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Female fans encourage predatory sex (30 September 12:45) |
| Some of the female fans have blamed a section of such women for encouraging predatory instincts among footballers, according to a study. |
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One in 10 Australians racist, says study (30 September 11:55) |
| Racism is waning but it still exists in Australia, one of the most multicultural countries in the world, say researchers. |
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You learn from mistakes only after age 12 (29 September 11:58) |
| Research in child psychology reveals another peculiar fact lately. If you have an 8 yr old giving you trouble, then this could help you out. |
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