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Some children who have asthma may also have peanut allergies but not know it, according to a new study.

By their second birthday, children are learning the names of things. What's this? Cat. And this? Whale. Very good. What's this color? Red! That's right. You love red. The human brain...

Rather than mundane, lazy sex, sloths participate in quite the mating game. In fact, sloth sex involves high-pitched screams, promiscuity and eye-gouging battles.

The demands of living in space mean that extraterrestrial colonists won't enjoy the same liberties as us. It's time to draw up a new bill of rights for them (full text available to subscribers)

Death shapes everything from individual lives to whole cultures, argue books by three social psychologists and an undertaker