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Cowboys, 'Injuns' and Bones

We associate the American Wild West with the hundreds of Westerns about cowboys and Red Indians. But life was tough for early settlers and gold rush prospectors. The native...

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Retroscope

On The Eve Of Another Silent Anniversary

Overwhelmed by grief when my father passed away in January 1966
I did not know how to combat that empty feeling. I was just 23 years old and I had had so much to talk,...

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Health

New Anti-Cancer Drug Sparks Revolution In Cancer Treatment

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune have discovered groundbreaking drug delivery system employing graphene oxide nanoparticle...

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Kaleidoscope

Memory Man Returns

David Baldacci created a very intriguing and tragic protagonist in Amos Decker. In his first Decker novel, The Memory Man (2015), he introduced a man with who cannot forget...

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Alternative Entertainment

The Puzzling Way That Writing Heals The Body

In 1986 the psychology professor James Pennebaker discovered something extraordinary, something which would inspire a generation of researchers to conduct several hundred s...

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Sustainable Development

A Fish That Can Father A Near Clone Of Itself

Scientists have discovered a fish carrying genes only from its father in the nucleus of its cells. Found in a type of fish called Squalius alburnoides, which normally inhab...

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Environment

Identity Of Famous Baby Dinosaur Fossil Revealed

The fossil of a baby dinosaur discovered in China more than 25 years ago has formally been identified as a new species of feathered dinosaur. The hatchling, dubbed Baby Lou...

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Sustainable Development

Activists: Tokyo's Sustainable Olympics Is Being Built With Wood From Rainforest's

The 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics could be using illegally logged tropical wood from indigenous Malaysians’ land to build a billion-dollar wooden sports stadium, human r...

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Health

Genetic Map Of Dogs Evolution Sheds Light On Cancer & Diabetes

An evolutionary tree of more than 161 dog breeds has been mapped out by geneticists, showing which types are closely related to each other. The research will obviously be o...

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Alternative Entertainment

How One Creature Haunts Our Thoughts

A newly-christened species of giant spider was unveiled this week. Kelly Grovier looks at why these creepy-crawlies have long crouched in the dark corners of our imaginatio...

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