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An official investigation reveals the extent of superconductivity physicist Ranga Dias’s scientific misconduct. Plus, why scientists are concerned about a bird flu outbreak in US cows and the theory of ‘survival of the nicest’. An official investigation reveals the extent of superconductivity physicist Ranga Dias’s scientific misconduct. Plus, why scientists are concerned about a bird flu outbreak in US cows and the theory of ‘survival of the nicest’.

How humans, animals and even single-celled organisms cooperate to survive suggests there’s more to life than just competition, argues a cheering study of evolutionary biology. How humans, animals and even single-celled organisms cooperate to survive suggests there’s more to life than just competition, argues a cheering study of evolutionary biology.

Dr. Jarvis lays out numerous pieces of evidence that jeopardize Dawkins’s view that genes are selfish and act as the units of selection.

By S. N. Arseculeratne Humans have only two certainties to worry about: income tax and death. I do not have to worry about tax as I have nothing to be taxed. Death is worth a thought. Of course, that it is inevitable, is a painful axiom. But a thinking person will want to know why […]

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