- Catherine Zentile
I.Q. scores have been rising steadily, by about 3 points per decade, ever since they were first administered. This is the Flynn Effect and it means that if we take the average teenager of today with an I.Q. of 100 and project the trend back to the 1900s, the average I.Q. was somewhere between 50 and 70 which usually marks a mental disability! Surely this cannot be correct...?
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- Andrew Caines
So what exactly is linguistics? Is it all about tape recorders, tongue twisters and dropped "aitches"? Or is it all adventure, exploration and the search for undiscovered languages among rainforest tribes? Well, it's both, and in this article Andrew Caines tells us more...
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- Emma Gatti
The Pythia, the prophetess at the Oracle of Delphi, was said to be able to communicate with Apollo by going into a trance. But science has shown that these trances weren't down to divine intervention - instead they were the result of inhaling noxious gases from nearby geological fault lines...
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- Stephanie Modi
The lymphatic system is your body's drainage system. It collects the excess fluid that surrounds cells and returns it to the bloodstream, picks up fats from the intestines and primes the immune system about pathogens...
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- Thomas Häusler
Bacteriophages were big business before penicillin and other antimicrobials appeared on the scene. But now, with increasing bacterial resistance and the rise of the "superbug", phages are once more centre-stage in the war on microbes...
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- Jemima Stockton
Whether you love or loath the white stuff, it is unavoidable on your TV and in your paper. What is milk, is it good for us, and what type should we drink?
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- Helen Carter
There are five million new cases of HIV internationally every year, and the virus is second only to tobacco as the leading cause of death worldwide. But what is HIV, how does it cause disease, what is AIDS, how do anti-AIDS drugs work, and what does HIV mean for Britain?
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- Chris Smith
Beating your head against a hard surface can be a sign of frustration, yet for a woodpecker it’s a fact of life. So why don't nature's headbangers develop brain damage or a permanent migraine?
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- Hakim Yadi
Usually, when the immune system meets something foreign, the offending intruder is swiftly attacked and neutralised. Thankfully things are different during pregnancy. But how does a baby developing in the uterus slip under its mother's immunological radar...
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- Becky Poole
Dementia-prone mice have shown researchers than an old mouse can learn new tricks, given the right environment...
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