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06/06/2017 - 14:07

In a restaurant setting sometime in the not-too distant future, a man and a woman are on their first date. After the initial nerves subside... →

02/06/2017 - 13:29

I believe, as do most people, that citizens of a democracy have a responsibility to remain informed, but I fear this constant deluge of... →

29/05/2017 - 11:09

Despite this, research suggests that we’re actually having less sex now than we have for decades. In March, American researchers Jean... →

24/05/2017 - 13:08

The other reason for many of the myths about the period is its association with the Catholic Church. In the English-speaking world these... →

19/05/2017 - 13:11

Adam Bear and Joshua Knobe of Yale University, who have studied normalisation, wrote recently in the New York Times ... →

15/05/2017 - 15:51

About 17 percent of the children of Russian parents who immigrated to the Holy Land in the early and mid-1990s have since emigrated, either... →

09/05/2017 - 14:59

Vitamin D deficiencies are widespread, with around one billion people, from all age groups and ethnicities, suffering from them, even... →

03/05/2017 - 18:07

Is it even possible that the effects of trauma, such as experienced during the Holocaust or other horrifying events, can be inherited? That... →

03/05/2017 - 17:56

At first glance Erin and Audri Nelson look identical. They have the same chocolate coloured hair, they share dark, almond-shaped eyes and... →

27/04/2017 - 13:30

There is a growing cohort of well-credentialed scientists investigating radical life extension: geneticist Craig Venter, one of the first... →

22/04/2017 - 12:52

To Americans, democracy is a given. But to the rest of the world, it’s a fairly recent invention — a creature of the past two centuries.... →

16/04/2017 - 11:06

Compare that with, for example, King Arthur, who supposedly lived around AD500. The major historical source for events of that time does... →

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