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It's not the fact that the Earth orbits the Sun that matters, but its tilt of around 23 degrees to the plane of the Solar System. That leads to some constellations being too low in the sky to see...

The actual sensation of smell can’t do any harm, but the substances that cause it might.

There’s a difference between temporary and permanent effects. Your whole olfactory...

Following the discovery of quarks inside protons and neutrons in the early 1970s, some theorists suggested quarks might themselves contain particles known as 'preons'. The idea wasn't entirely...

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12/03/2010 - 17:27
The ultimate check-up could become part of routine health scans within the next few years, offering us the chance to see the makeup of our DNA. Genome sequencing reveals the pattern of a person...
12/03/2010 - 09:58
We at Focus towers have been given a mystery to solve.  Readers Bill, Bill and Chris Maddison (aged 93, 54 and 12 respectively) have sent us a picture of the object below. They bought it at a...
11/03/2010 - 17:05
Ever wondered what we’re going to be up to in a couple of centuries time? Science fiction author extraordinaire, Stephen Baxter, reckons we could have colonised Mars by then. In the April...
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