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| The meaning of dreams |
| Rejecting the notion that dreams are linked with mysticism, scientists take a closer look at the night-time phenomenon. Roger Highfield reports |
| The one third of our lives we spend asleep is an enigma to scientists. They still don’t even clearly understand why we have to sleep. But perhaps the greatest puzzle of all is the role of dreaming, which great thinkers have puzzled over for millennia.... |
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| Why cosmologists like inflation |
| We saw in the last article that the earlier phases of the universe would have been very hot and filled with particles of high energy. This has led to
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| Taller, fatter in Calcutta |
| The economic boom and the easy availability of packaged food combined with reduced levels of physical activity have made adolescents as well as adults
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| PC space crunch? Try special software |
| Bits & Bytes / Surit Doss |
It’s amazing the cheaper hard disks become and the more data they hold, the more your requirements increase. With movies, music, games and photos, space is exhausted in no time. The 160 GB that you got for a song with four partitions is just n ... | Read.. |
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| Smelling good |
| All human beings have a unique body odour, often pleasant but sometimes a little repulsive. Animals, too, have a distinctive smell which is different
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