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Oprah ‘resolves everything’ with school abuse victim

London, Nov 27: Oprah Winfrey met the student who claimed a staff member abused her, during a secret trip to her elite Leadership Academy for Girls in Johannesburg.

Scientists decode genome of yeast

Washington, Nov 27: Researchers at the University of Toronto have successfully mapped all 70,000 nucleosomes in yeast.

This will help them understand and predict the state of a cell.

Scientists melt million year old ice in search for ancient microbes

Washington, Nov 27: Scientists have melted ice dating back to a million year from an ancient lake two miles beneath the frozen surface of Antarctica, in search of microorganisms.

Gay men more likely to be right-handed: Study

Washington, Nov 27: A new study has provided a new twist on the connection between sexual orientation and right or left-handedness, claiming that gay or bisexual men have an elevated incidence of e

Global warming caused marine mass extinction event 251 million years ago

Washington, Nov 27: Researchers have discovered that the mass extinction event in oceans at the end of the Permian period about 251 million years ago happened because of a slow, drawn out demise of

Indian American ecologist proposes 'human-centric' maps of ecosystems

Washington, Nov 27: An Indian American ecologist and a colleague have proposed a radically new system of 'human-centric' maps of ecosystems of the world, which can prove to be an alternative to the

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