June 2010
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May 2010
Illustrations of Women Scientists Improves Girls'... →
Researchers from Rutgers University gave a short chemistry exam to local 9th and 10th graders—29 male and 52 female. The students read three pages of a chemistry text and then took the test on the material. All the texts were the same, but they were illustrated differently. One third of the students saw pictures in which everyone was a man. For another, there were only women in the...
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'Starving yogi' astounds Indian scientists →
An 83-year-old Indian holy man who says he has spent seven decades without food or water has astounded a team of military doctors who studied him during a two-week observation period.
Prahlad Jani spent a fortnight in a hospital in the western India state of Gujaratunder constant surveillance from a team of 30 medics equipped with cameras and closed circuit television.
During the period, he...
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