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/ 11 November 2008
Twenty-nine percent of teachers in the United Kingdom believe that creationism and intelligent design should be taught as science, according to an online survey of attitudes to teaching evolution.
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/ 15 September 2008
The first trial of ‘psychedelic psychotherapy’ since 1970s has researchers hoping the effects will improve quality of life, writes James Randerson.
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/ 15 September 2008
One-fifth of Indian herbal medicines available over the internet contain heavy metals such as lead, mercury and arsenic, according to researchers.
People who give up smoking improve their health almost immediately, according to a study of more than 100 000 women carried out over 24 years.
Giving children with epilepsy a special low-carb diet reduces the number of seizures they experience by 75% compared with children on a normal diet.
James Randerson, given exclusive access to a research facility, talks to scientists about their experiments on monkeys.
One of the world’s most distinguished physicists has scrutinised some science-fiction concepts, such as teleportation and forcefields, and is convinced that they can become reality. Professor Michio Kaku, of City University in New York, believes invisibility cloaks and teleÂpathy could be possible this century.
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/ 16 October 2007
It might seem the epitome of a David versus Goliath mismatch — up to 12 tonnes of heavily armoured mammal flesh versus a few hundred milligrams of irritating insect — but despite their thick skins and size advantage, elephants turn tail and flee at the sound of a swarm of bees, according to research in Kenya.
Greenhouse gas emissions from human activity are causing global shifts in rainfall patterns and contributing to wetter weather over Britain, climate scientists say. Their study is the first to find a "human fingerprint" in the rainfall changes that have been detected in a belt of the northern hemisphere stretching from the Mediterranean to the United Kingdom to Norway.
A mathematical problem that remained unsolved for more than a century has finally been cracked by an international team of 18 scientists. The puzzle, which is so complex that its handwritten proof would cover an area the size of Manhattan, took researchers four years to unravel.
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/ 11 December 2006
The richest 1% of adults in the world own 40% of the planet’s wealth, according to the largest study yet of wealth distribution. The report also finds that those in financial services and the internet sectors predominate among the super-rich. Europe, the United States and some Asia Pacific nations account for most of the extremely wealthy.