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Beard hair is quite different to head hair; it is coarser, curlier and doesn't fall out as we get older. Comparatively little work has been done on the genetics of human hair colour, but it is...

It was only ever coincidence that nettle and dock were found together. There's no symbiotic relationship between them, any more than there's any truth that dock can help with nettle stings....

Particle physicists are just eager to find out whether the Higgs boson actually exists or not. We now know where to look and, if it does exist, the Large Hadron Collider project at the European...

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10/03/2010 - 12:38
Here is a collection of some of the best images that have caught my eye this month. First up is an image of the last test firing of the reusable rocket that will power NASA’s shuttle into...
05/03/2010 - 14:39
The news that Google "personalises" up to one in five web searches using our web history, location and online contacts is a rare insight into the mighty search engine’s mysterious...
04/03/2010 - 15:57
As I drove the last car load of old kitchen units and various other bits of junk to the tip the other day, I couldn't help wondering where all that waste would actually end up. The local tip is...
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