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BBC News
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A wearable digital camera may hold the key to helping people who have memory problems, experts believe.
Sensecam, produced by Microsoft, takes photos of daily events every 30 seconds so they can be played back later at high-speed to jog memory.
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Times Online
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One of the world’s most respected scientists is embroiled in an extraordinary row after claiming that black people are less intelligent than white people.
James Watson, a Nobel Prize winner for his part in discovering the structure of DNA, has provok..
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Science Daily
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Most people don't appreciate an angry look, but a new University of Michigan psychology study found that some people find angry expressions so rewarding that they will readily learn ways to encourage them.
"It's kind of striking that an angry facial ex..
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FOX News
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A gene that contributes to obesity has been identified for the first time, promising to explain why some people easily put on weight while others with similar lifestyles stay slim.
People who inherit one version of the gene rather than another are 70 p..
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NPR
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Scientists are trying to figure out how to get carbon dioxide — the greenhouse gas that's warming the planet — out of the smokestacks of coal-burning power plants before it gets into the atmosphere.
At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's la..
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BBC News
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Archaeologists say they have found a huge ancient settlement used by the people who built Stonehenge...
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BBC News
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The anti-impotence drug Viagra may help save people with muscular dystrophy from an early death, a study suggests.
Researchers found the way the drug works to combat impotence may also help ward off heart failure in muscular dystrophy patients.
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BBC News
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The number of government grants made to people who want to fit solar panels or other green energy systems to their homes has halved, the BBC has learned.
It comes after the low carbon buildings programme cut the maximum grant on offer from �7,500 to..
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BBC News
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Conservationists have urged people to help frogs continue to thrive in one of their natural strongholds.
Dumfries and Galloway is home to nine different native Scottish species of amphibians and reptiles.
A new group is now being set up in the regio..
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BBC News
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The United States Senate has unanimously passed legislation banning discrimination on the basis of people's genetic details.
The proposal, which passed 95-0, still needs approval from the House of Representatives before it becomes law.
It would allo..
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BBC News
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A 'bionic eye' may hold the key to returning sight to people left blind by a hereditary disease, experts believe.
A team at London's Moorfields Eye Hospital have carried out the treatment on the UK's first patients as part of a clinical study into the..
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BBC News
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People's attitudes to relationships could be given away by just the look of their face, it has been claimed - with men and women often after the opposite.
Researchers said men generally preferred women they perceive are open to short-term sexual relati..
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BBC News
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Three more genes that raise bowel cancer risk, including one affecting only some races, have been identified.
UK scientists found one of the genes increased risk in people of European descent, but not Japanese people, reports the journal Nature Genetic..
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BBC News
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Water supplies to about 200,000 people in central China have been contaminated by pollution, which has turned branches of a major river system red.
At least three tributaries of the Han river - a branch of the Yangtze - have been affected.
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BBC News
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One thousand people are to have their genomes mapped in a major effort to understand how genes influence disease.
To date, only a handful of humans have had their genes analysed in this way, including scientists Craig Venter and James Watson, and anony..
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BBC News
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A London hospital has become the first in the world to implant a new generation of pacemaker to stop people regularly fainting.
A 65-year-old man from west London was fitted with the device under local anaesthetic at St Mary's Hospital.
The Biotroni..
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BBC News
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The way people interact with computers is going to dramatically change in the next five years, Microsoft chief Bill Gates has told BBC News.
He predicted that the keyboard and mouse would gradually give way to more intuitive and natural technologies...
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BBC News
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A mysterious case of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) has raised fears more people than thought could be at risk.
New Scientist magazine reports the genetic make-up of a 40-year-old woman who may have died from variant CJD was different from all previou..
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BBC News
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A single jab that could give lifelong protection against all types of flu has produced promising results in human trials.
The vaccine, made by Acambis, should protect against all strains of influenza A - the cause of pandemics.
Currently, winter flu..
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BBC News
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Police in India's northern Uttar Pradesh state say they have arrested 16 people in connection with hunting tigers and smuggling skin and bones.
The police said they have recovered tiger skin, bones and hair from the arrested people in Allahabad city...
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