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New Discovery Could Lead To Contraceptive Pill For Men, Or Increased Fertility
November 30th, 2009 | 
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New research is showing scientists how sperm production can be increased or decreased by altering the levels of hormone signaling in the testes.
This science is quite clearly a load of balls. Read the rest of this entry »
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Babies Cry With Their Parents’ Accents
It has been known for thousands of years that babies cry. They wail, they shriek, they whine.
Rather more recently, we’ve begun to understand that they cry in different ways when certain things are troubling them: hunger, tiredness, loneliness, that strange man with big hands who keeps thrusting a bunch of shiny things in its face and jangling them.
But now, scientists are claiming that they can distinguish the national origin of a baby from the intonation of its cries. Read the rest of this entry »