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Dolphins in eastern tropical Pacific Ocean are on the rebound

Washington, June 6 : A new study has shown that eastern tropical Pacific Ocean dolphin populations are increasing in number after being depleted because of some accidental deaths between 1960 and 1

Humans first started using shoes 40,000years ago

Washington, June 6 : The first time humans put their feet inside shoes was 40,000years ago, a new anthropological research suggests.

Giving poor people money to purchase food might bring about food aid revolution

London, June 6 : The world might soon see a revolution in food aid, with rich nations preferring to give money to the people in poor countries to purchase food.

According to a report in New Scientist, there has been a shift against giving food aid because when there a lot of free donated flour about, grain prices sink, and local farmers can’t earn enough selling their own crops.

To make it worthwhile to invest extra in the fertilizer or irrigation or labour, they need to grow more, which means the food crisis will just continue and even worsen.

Therefore, these days rich countries give the UN’s WFP (World Food Programme) money to buy food, whereas 10 years ago the WFP was a way for rich countries to give their surplus grain away.

Training people’s ‘plastic memories’ can boost their IQs

Washington, June 6 : Scientists have shown that it may be possible to train people to become more intelligent than what they were endowed with at birth, by finding that at least one aspect of a per

One drowns in flash floods in southern Philippines; hundreds flee

Manila  - One person drowned and hundreds fled their homes when flash floods struck a southern Philippine town, a government agency said Friday.

Male circumcision ‘just another way to win the sperm war’

London, June 6 : Circumcision and other forms of male genital mutilation have long been a part of various religious rituals after which the man is left vulnerable to infection and even death.

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