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Women are quicker than men at carrying out a primitive, "instant judgment'' type of maths, according to the world's largest mathematics experiment.

The world is in danger of running out of scientists because too many students are opting to study "easier'' subjects in school and university, the British Association for the Advancement of Science was recently told.

Even though scientists still argue about what life is, discoveries reported in the past few weeks have shown that much more of it teems on our planet than previously thought -and in some unlikely places.

The dogma that there is no safe level of exposure to toxins, radiation and carcinogens is wrong and may have unnecessarily terrified the public and led to billions of pounds being wasted on environmental clean-ups.

A re-creation of the first powered flight by Wilbur and Orville Wright a century ago has concluded that they came perilously close to failure.

Noise may delay a baby's first word and be responsible for the increase in language learning disorders noted by doctors over the last few decades, say researchers in California.

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