Social media remain healthy - 45m status updates a day are posted by Facebook users, whose average age has risen to 33 The use of social media is still growing: a survey has revealed that 19% of internet users now say they use...
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A three-week tour from the Colorado Rockies to the Arctic Ocean, the tropics, Antarctica and then back again to the Arctic again can give a new perspective of the world. “You get a feeling of how small the earth is,” said Pavel...
A report by a group of leading scientists that global warming is accelerating and that world sea levels could rise at worst by 2 metres by 2100* is grim reading. But sceptics are using a flood of leaked e-mails from a British...
The idea that the adult brain changes with experience was once a radical idea, but it is now well accepted that certain areas--say, the motor cortex, when learning a new physical skill--can grow new neurons or create stronger...
Hong Kong: Police in Hong Kong were Thursday trying to trace the founder of a Chinese-language Facebook group whose members claim to be planning a mass suicide on Dec 21. The investigation was triggered after a 15-year-old...