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16 December 2009

DINOSAURS

Hop skip or jump? Did four-legged hadrosaurs gallop like a horse, run like an ostrich or hop like a kangaroo? All three have been suggested, but it’s a difficult puzzle to solve with only fossils to go on. Now 3D modelling of a duck-billed dinosaur has provided an answer

UFOs

Was strange ‘Norway spiral’ an out-of-control missile? A huge glowing vortex that appeared in the skies above Norway last week was most probably a failed Russian missile launch, says an astrophysicist from Harvard University

NEUROSCIENCE

Brain scan reveals who will keep their word Promises are made to be…

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