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 Teenagers off the hookScientists have given teenagers an evidence-based excuse for bad manners, according to a study published this week.... 8th Feb 2009
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 Clownfish babies all at seaClownfish – as made famous by the film “Finding Nemo” – have a rough life. As tiny fish fry they spend weeks drifting about in the sea, trying to find their way home to the reef wh... 6th Feb 2009
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 Link found between asthma and dermatitisMore and more of us are suffering from allergies, including allergic asthma, and atopic dermatitis where the skin over-reacts to common substances in the environment – a condition ... 6th Feb 2009
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Pointing out how fingerprints help us feel fine detailsIn a piece of true science detective work, researchers at the Laboratoire de Physique Statistique in Paris have found another reason why we have fingerprints. ... 1st Feb 2009
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Writing the world’s smallest lettersKeeping with our theme of nanotechnology this week, researchers at Stanford University in the States have managed to write the smallest letters ever – assembled from subatomic part... 1st Feb 2009
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Mob rule to scare away cuckoosResearchers studying Reed warblers have found out that mob rule can avoid being cuckolded by cuckoos. ... 1st Feb 2009
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Turning up the heat on cereal genomeIt’s clear that the global climate is changing, and this is having a big impact on food supplies. For example, if the climate changes in a major crop-growing region, it may n... 1st Feb 2009
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 New use for old drugIn today’s world of exciting – and expensive – new drugs, it seems unlikely that a drug that’s over a hundred years old would have anything new to give us. But now researcher... 1st Feb 2009
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 How do dogs walk?How do dogs walk? No, that’s not a joke. It seems that as a nation we are all misled in how we think dogs, horses and all other four-legged creatures move their legs because half o... 30th Jan 2009
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 Tussling triceratopsFor a long time now a question that has teased palaeontologists is why the Triceratops had three horns, as well as the distinctive bony frill sticking out from the base of their sk... 30th Jan 2009
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