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Science

Physics of Football

Understanding the effect of the small ridges on the Jabulani ball in use this World Cup.

To Mars

Six men undergo an 18-month ordeal in a confined space to check if humans can make it to the Red Planet.

Child’s Play

Human infants over-imitate even irrelevant steps in doing a task. It distinguishes us from apes.

The Toe of God

A new result in particle physics reveals why matter, rather than anti-matter, makes up much of the universe, but current theories have no explanation for it.

New Program for Life

Craig Venter may not have created artificial life, but what he has done may be at least as significant.

Gulp! They were Big

Elephants need to eat for 18 hours a day. Large dinosaurs would need to have eaten for 30 hours a day. How then did they manage to get so big?

The Neanderthals Among Us

A long debated question has been answered. Humans and Neanderthals did interbreed and their genes live on within most of us.

Burn Fat the Spicy Way

A diet rich in capsaicin, the active ingredient in red chillies, burns fat more rapidly than an equivalent diet that lacks capsaicin.

Sleep on It

Dreams of a task being learnt improve performance, suggesting that they may be by-products of memory processing.

Is Racism in Our Genes?

Probably, because tendencies to stereotype may be a result of genes that encode social fear.

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