Danish scientists are claiming that nerves transmit their signals by sound, not by electrical charges…
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The connections between our neurons seems to obey the same principles as the rules which govern social networks…
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Chimpanzees have been seen in the wild fashioning weapons to use in the hunt for small mammals…
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Archeologists have discovered stone tools – used by chimpanzees 4300 years ago…
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Researchers at Harvard have stopped light, stored it, and released it again…
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Scientists have done a neat bit of genetic tinkering which reversed one of the most serious forms of autism – in mice…
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Scientists have produced a working nano-scale motor…
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A simple drug, used for over forty years, may be the single-point cure for nearly all cancers…
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Bose-Einstein Condensates (BECs) have been employed to create atomic-scale transistors…
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Bacteria greatly accelerate evolution by enabling “horizontal gene transfer” between species…
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