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30/10/2015 - 14:54

These are not fantasies dreamed up by some Hollywood studio. They're ripped from the pages of sober scientific journals and official... →

26/10/2015 - 12:10

So far, Tunisia has been a rare exception in the region. In Egypt, exclusionist policies by both Islamist forces and so-called liberal... →

19/10/2015 - 19:07

The idea of people on, or from, the moon is not unique to Western culture. The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter is a Japanese story dating back to... →

15/10/2015 - 14:53

That may sound alarming, but it has long been known that our bodies are really a mishmash of many different organisms. Microbes in your gut... →

11/10/2015 - 12:43

In these times of paralysis in Washington, with yet another government shutdown that had been looming merely kicked down the road, it is... →

06/10/2015 - 13:50

Commensurate with their power to change biology as we know it, the new technologies are driving renewed ethical debates. Uneasiness is... →

01/10/2015 - 16:06

Meanwhile the internet, much like the written word, struggles to reflect the linguistic diversity of the spoken word. According to the UN,... →

27/09/2015 - 13:24

Of course, a history of intimacy does not preclude separation, as divorce lawyers can attest. And the two countries had been “divorced” for... →

22/09/2015 - 16:19

В Голованевске, 22 июня 1939 года, родился и я. Мой отец – кадровый офицер Красной армии. С началом войны семье Затучных-Аникиных удалось... →

22/09/2015 - 11:52

Neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis, who led the research, published earlier this year, has a name for this remarkable collaboration: a "... →

17/09/2015 - 13:54

Jannini found that those who harbour homophobic attitudes are often encumbered with deficient coping mechanisms, and that their averse... →

11/09/2015 - 12:35

Both perspectives seem plausible — but our research shows that there is little merit to either of them. In our review of the 79 dictators... →

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