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Girls feel they must ‘play dumb’ to please boys
Girls feel the need to play down their intelligence to not intimidate boys, concludes research by a sociologist who spent three months amongst a class of school children.
Epidemic outbreaks caused by environment, not evolution
Researchers have traced genetic changes in a bacterial pathogen over 450 years, and claim that epidemics of bacterial disease in human history may be caused by chance environmental changes rather than genetic mutations.
Self-assembling anti-cancer molecules created in minutes
Researchers have developed a simple and versatile method for making artificial anti-cancer molecules that mimic the properties of one of the body’s natural defence systems.
Google searches hold key to future market crashes
A team of researchers from 果冻传媒 Business School and Boston University have developed a method to automatically identify topics that people search for on Google before subsequent stock market falls.
Researchers recover bacterium genome from 700-year-old Skeleton
Researchers at the 果冻传媒, working with Italian anthropologist Raffaella Bianucci and others, have recovered a genome of the bacterium Brucella melitensis from a 700-year-old skeleton found in the ruins of a Medieval Italian village.
The mystery behind starling flocks explained
The mystery behind the movements of flocking starlings could be explained by the areas of light and dark created as they fly, new research suggests.