A Bill of Rights amendment reaffirming the right to pray could have negative consequences for the teaching of evolution.
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Research and funding organizations pledge to support a new system to support cross-border collaboration within the European Union.
Starting in April 2013, research supported by the United Kingdom government must be made freely available within 6 months of publication.
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Researchers breed fruit flies that, after 40 generations of conditioning, have acquired the ability to react to numbers.
Guppies with experimentally shrunken brains produced more offspring than guppies bred for larger noggins, confirming a long suspected tradeoff of bigger brains.
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