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The algorithm provides researchers with a new tool for imaging the tiniest and most delicate of biological specimens as well as helping them solve popular numbers puzzle Sudoku during their coffee break.
The Sudoku discovery appeals to Elser’s whimsical side. But the algorithm, he notes, has potential for all kinds of other endeavors. “There are a [...]

Scientists’ reactions have ranged from deep skepticism to interest in a report of a mutation that makes people walk on all fours, cited in a Turkish study as a possible instance of “backward evolution.”
The bizarre case, reported last week in World Science, has also drawn attention from several scientists in Europe, some of [...]

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Race differences in average IQ are largely genetic
Medical Research News
Published: Tuesday, 26-Apr-2005

A 60-page review of the scientific evidence, some based on state-of-the-art magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of brain size, has concluded that race differences in average IQ are largely genetic.

The lead article in the June 2005 issue of Psychology, Public Policy and Law, [...]

Sodium benzoate (Approved food additive E211 in the EU) is a public health issue that has been bubbling for fifteen years and could soon come to a head and have the fizzy drinks industry frothing at the mouth. Sodium benzoate is a preservative added to carbonated beverages, but those drinks that also have added citric [...]

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