Science Update

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August 24, 2007

Diet foods could make kids fat, the incompatibility of ape and human blood, the secrets of …

August 22, 2007

There's more to fingerprints than meets the eye.

August 20, 2007

A new study shows that diet foods could lead to overeating in children.

August 17, 2007

Dinosaurs and their rivals, a computer that solves checkers, the placebo effect and the brain, …

August 15, 2007

Scientists look to the brain to find out why some people respond better to the placebo effect than …

August 14, 2007

After eighteen years of work, scientists have designed an unbeatable checkers computer.

August 13, 2007

New evidence sheds light on the dinosaurs' rise to power.

August 10, 2007

Sparrows that prefer up-to-date songs, glaciers and global warming, upwardly mobile robots, bacteria …

August 9, 2007

Scientists are teaching a robot how to climb hills.

August 8, 2007

We hear a lot about the melting polar ice sheets. But smaller ice caps may actually pose an even …