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Morning sickness may be sign of a bright baby

SICK of morning sickness? Take heart: it may be a sign that your child is developing a high IQ.
Irena Nulman and colleagues at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada, contacted 120 women who years earlier had called a morning sickness hotline. Thirty did not have morning sickness, but the researchers asked the rest [...]

Viruses: Now boarding transatlantic fruit flies

Almost every fruit bowl in every home has one or two bothersome fruit fly visitors. Fruit flies have been minor annoyances to humans for thousands of years feeding on the food wasted by humans. They followed nomadic people as they spread out of Africa 10,000 years ago and thrived in Europe, when humans planted orchards [...]

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