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Why first-born children have higher IQs

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Fish have been living on this earth for an estimated 400 million years. Some say that their endurance and willingness to brave the elements is largely due in part to the efficiency of their immune system.
Not only the ability to fight off general disease, but also in part to their intolerance of cancerous cells in […]

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OSLO (Reuters) - Boulders as big as soccer balls show that a thinning of West Antarctic glaciers has become 20 times faster in recent decades and may hold clues to future sea level rise, scientists said on Friday.
Rocks trapped in glacier ice start to react like clockwork when exposed […]

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HOW cool are those Gardasil Girls? Riding horses, flinging softballs, bashing away on drum sets: on the television commercials, they are pugnacious and utterly winning.
They want to be “One Less,” they chant — one less victim of cervical cancer. Get vaccinated with Gardasil, they urge their sisters. Protect yourselves against the human papillomavirus, or H.P.V., […]

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Dinosaurs bred as early as age eight, long before they reached adult size, fossil evidence suggests.
Although they were descended from reptiles, and evolved into birds, dinosaurs grew fast and bred young, much like the mammals of today.
Researchers at the University of California found hallmark “egg-making” tissue in two juvenile females.
They say early sexual maturity was […]

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CAIRO (AFP) — In a potential blow to themed resorts from Vegas to Tokyo, Egypt is to pass a law requiring payment of royalties whenever its ancient monuments, from the pyramids to the sphinx, are reproduced.
Zahi Hawass, the charismatic and controversial head of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, told AFP on Tuesday that the move […]

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Scientists and Intellectuals are supposed to be above petty politics and popularity contests, right ?
Nope. Here are a few bright bulbs that never got the fancy Nobel gold medallion (or the millions of Swedish krona that go with it). And you thought the Oscars were bad.
1. Joan Robinson, Economics
Great Britain’s Joan Robinson may be one […]

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A colorful microscope image showing that a solution of tiny DNA molecules has formed a liquid-crystal phase.
The DNA molecules pair to form DNA double helices, which, in turn stack end-to-end to make rod-shaped aggregates that orient parallel to one another. Credit: Michi Nakata
A team led by the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University […]

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HOUSTON - A spacewalking astronaut fixed a ripped solar energy panel on the international space station Saturday in a difficult and dangerous emergency procedure that allowed the crew to extend the wing to its full length.
Spacewalker Scott Parazynski installed homemade braces on the torn wing and clipped the snarled wires that had ripped it in […]

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Many people use the clocks going back to gain an extra hour in bed - but a sleep expert says the change can actually leave people tired.
Even such small changes, said Dr Neil Stanley, can disrupt sleep routines and cause semisomnia - low grade exhaustion caused by inadequate rest.
He estimated that it could take three […]

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