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Online dating has shed its stigma, and is now the most popular way of meeting a partner, other than through friends.
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For some time, silver has had something of a folk reputation as a treatment for cancer.
The US has significantly tightened its rules on the use of chimpanzees in medical research, ruling it out except for cases in which there's no other valid testing method.
When it comes to Facebook, it seems we're not all linked by six degrees of separation - the true figure is actually 4.74.
Most people believe that it's worth investing in geoengineering research, a new study has found.
Online gamers have succeeded where scientists have failed for a decade, successfully deciphering the structure of an AIDS-like retrovirus enzyme.
In a study that could have important implications for the abortion debate, neuroscientists say they've established that fetuses can't distinguish pain from touch until 35-37 weeks gestation – just before they'd normally be born.
The so-called Gulf Dead Zone is looking set to be the biggest ever this year.
If you thought reptiles were some of the least intelligent creatures in the animal kingdom, well, you might want to reconsider.
Young people are much more likely to dream in color, Japanese researchers report - and one reason could be the spread of color television.
As carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increases, the soil releases ever more of two other potent greenhouse gases, new research has found.
You may want to get your ruler out at this point. South Korean researchers have discovered that there's a link between finger length and the length of a man's penis.
North Pacific fish are eating tens of thousands of tons of plastic debris, say researchers from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.
Think you're doing the right thing by using biodegradeable products? Think again.
Smile and the world smiles with you - but you might not get your girl. Yup, a team of Canadian scientists has confirmed what everybody knew - that we all tend to fall for the bad boys.
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