Adulterers and prostitutes could be executed and women were agreed to be more libidinous than men – then in the 18th century attitudes to sex underwent an extraordinary change.
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The documentary filmmaker has become America's most surprising and provocative public intellectual... 
Genetics may soon provide us with a means of finding out how long each individual on this planet will live, as soon as they are born. In a new study, experts found that the length of cellular components called telomeres can be used to predict human lifespan. 
This new collection of nonfiction opens a window into the groundbreaking novelist's thoughts on contemporary culture and his own inner workings. 
SYDNEY scientists have built the world's tiniest transistor by precisely positioning a single phosphorus atom in a silicon crystal. 
RIBA-II didn't make it to Vancouver for the annual conference of the world's biggest science organization because the robot is still in the proto-type phase. 
"The space elevator will be built about 50 years after everyone stops laughing," said science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, a long time ago. 
Two new biographies differ over the astronomer’s view of the relationship between science and faith. 
It’s no secret that the global economy is in trouble, so if you’re bored of the world of stocks and bonds and feel the tedium of a slowing market, the time may have come to explore a whole new world of investment: space travel. 
To keep energy consumption under control, future chips may need to move data using light instead of electricity — and the technical expertise to build them may reside in the United States. Researchers at Rush University Medical Center are conducting an early phase clinical trial of a novel drug therapy for patients with dementia due to Alzheimer's disease. 
Repeated scientific debunking hasn’t dented brainstorming’s popularity. 
The average American uses enough water each year to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool, and global agriculture consumes a whopping 92% of all fresh water used annually. Those are the conclusions of the most comprehensive analysis to date of global water use, which also finds that one-fifth of humankind’s water consumption flows across international borders as “virtual water”—the water needed to produce a commodity, such as meat or electronics, if the ultimate consumers were to make it themselves rather than outsource its growth or manufacture. 
Taylor Wilson always dreamed of creating a star. Now he’s become one |
Time zones change for political purposes. We're fascinated for metaphysical reasons. 
Researchers attending one of the world's major academic conferences 'are scared to death of the anti-science lobby'... 
The cosmologist Lawrence Krauss joins a chorus of scientists trying to explain how the universe could be born from, if not nothing, something close to it. 
Project funded by anonymous individual aims to cut number of cattle farmed for food and reduce greenhouse gas emissions... 
Albert Speer’s plan to transform Berlin into the capital of a 1,000-year Reich would have created a vast monument to misanthropy, as Roger Moorhouse explains. 
As more European countries become nations of immigrants, is the multicultural city of Marseille a vision of the future? 
Algorithm to build 3-D maps requires a low-cost camera, no human input. Robots could one day navigate through constantly changing surroundings with virtually no input from humans, thanks to a system that allows them to build and continuously update a three-dimensional map of their environment using a low-cost camera such as Microsoft’s Kinect. 
Governments and corporations have more control over the Internet than ever. Now digital activists want to build an alternative network that can never be blocked, filtered or shut down 
Economic insecurity has rendered our social life brutally simple: 'us-against-them' coupled with 'you-are-on-your-own'. But the French essayist can inspire radical new forms of co-operation 
At the Santa Fe Institute America’s greatest minds break bread over big ideas and good conversation. Cormac McCarthy, Sam Shepard, and others explain what humanists are doing there. By Nick Romeo. 
In a boon for the local solar industry, a team of researchers from Swinburne University of Technology and Suntech Power Holdings have developed the world’s most efficient broadband nanoplasmonic solar cells. |
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