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bug’s revenge |
| A cancer-causing microbe has a sunny
side, reports Prasun Chaudhuri |
| Australian doctors Robin
Warren and Barry Marshall were in Stockholm last Friday to receive this year’s
Nobel Prize in medicine. The citation for the world’s most coveted award
lauded their “discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its
role in gastritis and peptic ulc... | Read.. |
| Newcomers
not allowed |
| Probiotics, or the friendly
bacteria which naturally occur in our digestive tract, is the latest fad among
health freaks. The friendly bugs are not on ... | Read.. |
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| Lure
of ideas |
| Simon Singh fished out
a toy ? a piece of plastic looking like the butt of a knife ? from his pocket
and gave it a spin. The piece started rotating on ... | Read.. |
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| An
absent-minded genius |
| Since childhood, odds were
heavily stacked against Albert Einstein. As a child he was slow in learning how
to speak. At school he was hardly the best ... | Read.. |
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| When
inhalers bite back |
| Inhalers that give short-term
relief from asthma can increase the risk of attacks if the drug is given regularly,
a new study has shown. ... | Read.. |
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Once you’ve tried digital radio in your home, you won’t look back. A
digital radio is far easier to use than a conventional one; it offers up to three
times as many stations and the sound quality ... | Read..
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| QED: Reserved for XXX
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Pornography, no matter we love or hate it, is here to stay. As yet not a single initiative has succeeded in wiping out ‘adult contents’ from our sacrosanct social space. And it’s even tougher to avoid sexual stuff on the World Wide Web
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When mind and machine merge
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The singularity
is near
Ray Kurzweil
Viking Adult; $19.77... | Read.. |
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When is a person too old to benefit from cancer screening tests? The answer, experts say, depends less on age than on the type of cancer, the test and individual characteristics of the person to be screened. ... | 
