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FILTHY INDIA AIR CUTTING 660 MILLION LIVES SHORT BY 3 YEARS

21.02.2015 15:11
NEW DELHI (AP) -- India's filthy air is cutting 660 million lives short by about three years, according to research published Saturday that underlines the hidden costs of the country's heavy reliance on fossil fuels to power its economic growth with little regard for the environment. While New...

Look at Earth from a Martian perspective

21.02.2015 15:07
Todd Huffman says we should refrain from sending humans to Mars until it can be determined if Mars has an independent biosphere of its own ( Letters, 18 February). This is wrong for two reasons. First, if life of any description is found on Mars, it is virtually certain to be related to life...

Inside the food industry: the surprising truth about what you eat

21.02.2015 15:03
On a bright, cold day in late November 2013, I found myself in the dark, eerie, indoor expanses of Frankfurt’s Blade Runner-like Festhalle Messe. I was there undercover, to attend an annual trade show called Food Ingredients. This three- day exhibition hosts the world’s most important gathering of...

Death Toll Rises to 25 in Attack in Somalia

21.02.2015 14:57
MOGADISHU, Somalia — The death toll in an attack by suicide bombers at a hotel compound in Mogadishu on Friday rose to 25 people, with more than 40 people wounded, Somali officials said Saturday. The Shabab, a rebel group, claimed responsibility for the attack, saying that the intended targets...

Up to 14 Years of Hot Flashes Found in Menopause Study

21.02.2015 14:45
Conventional wisdom has it that hot flashes, which afflict up to 80 percent of middle- aged women, usually persist for just a few years. But hot flashes can continue for as long as 14 years, and the earlier they begin the longer a woman is likely to suffer, a study published on Monday in JAMA...

Reefer research: cannabis 'munchies' explained by new study

20.02.2015 14:52
Besides making a bongo drum sound inexplicably magical and enhancing a person’s ability to talk nonsense for extended periods of time, generations of cannabis smokers will recognise the “munchies” as one of the drug’s most reliable side-effects. Now scientists have shown that the insatiable urge...

Nature and sex redefined – we have never been binary

20.02.2015 14:46
A recent article in Nature claims that biologists ‘now think’ that sex is not a binary feature for human beings – rather than being simply male or female, there are various kinds of sex, such as chromosomal sex or hormonal sex, and all of us exist across several spectrums of sexual identity. Two...

Don't be fooled by the closing gender gap in science PhDs

20.02.2015 14:41
Career advancement is often described metaphorically as a pipeline. In many fields – law, film, business, journalism and academia, to name just a few – the pipeline leaks. And most of all, it leaks women. As we move further along the career path, we usually find an increasing percentage of men and...

Mark Zuckerberg's book club fights US fear of vaccination

20.02.2015 14:38
Mark Zuckerberg has tapped into an area of growing social anxiety with his fourth book club choice, announced on Wednesday. The Facebook founder showed his talent for surfing the zeitgeist by selecting On Immunity: An Inoculation, by essayist Eula Biss, which investigates the fears...

As a Mars One candidate I can reach for the stars

20.02.2015 14:36
I became a scientist on 26 October 1980 on the floor of the family room in the house where I grew up. I had just turned nine years old and my conversion was prompted by a broadcast of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos. The episode, hauntingly titled Blues for a Red Planet, summarised human exploration of Mars,...
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