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(Cross posted at my other blog.)I am in the midst of writing an essay for Nature Chemistry – about why people are so curious about stereotypes of scientists, but seem less so about other fields. There is the DAST (draw a scientist test), but not as far as I…

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Although it’s been described as one for the ladies, German pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim’s failed antidepressant is not the pink pill that women with low libido have been waiting for, at least that is if you look at the statistics.
Last week, The Guardian was just one of thousands of news outlets to hype the drug, [...]

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Elephant sex is quite surprising, not because of the sheer bulk of the beasts involved and the forces they employ, but because of the rather circuitous route taken by the sex pheromones exuded by the female.
Josef Lazar of Columbia University, New York, and chemist Elizabeth “Bets” Rasmussen of Oregon Health and Sciences University in Beaverton [...]

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