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The National Institutes of Health failed to protect brain scans that an international group of fringe researchers used to ...

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Coca-Cola experiments provide practical and fun science demonstrations.

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The colour of the walls in your home is something that many budding interior designers spend hours deliberating over. Now, a psychologist has revealed what your chosen shades say about you. Professor ...

Towards the end of Philip Ball’s marvellous book on the history of alchemy he tells the story of pioneering nuclear physicist Ernest Rutherford being told in 1901, by his co-worker Frederick Soddy, ...