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Semen says turn those genes on (Image: CNRI/SPL)

THERE’S more to semen than sperm. In many animals, seminal fluid alters both the bodies and sometimes even the behaviour of...

Robots are becoming increasingly lifelike

During a robotics conference last...

Donald Trump, being a businessman, saw an economic market in ideas. Some were common and mostly wrong but partly right, and others were more correct. Generally, the more correct has less value because fewer recognize it, but as a crisis deepened — mass immigration threatening to wipe out...

Putin praises anti-extremism efforts as Moscow mosque reopens

• 23 September 2015
• From the section Europe

The rebuilt Jum'ah mosque will accommodate 10,000 worshippers
Moscow's biggest mosque has...

Cops: Shegroid, 16, Doused School Guards With Gasoline, Then Tried To Set Them On Fire

A Pennsylvania girl doused school security guards with gasoline and then attempted to light the victims on fire, according to investigators who have charged the...