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True or False: Coal

True or False: The world has enough proven coal reserves to last for the next 100 years.

Study shows bananas make baby boys

Women can influence the gender of their child with what they eat before they conceive, according to new research that lends scientific support to age-old superstitions about pregnancy.

Neanderthal man speaks after 30,000 years

It's been 30,000 years since Neanderthals walked the earth, but now we can hear what they sounded like, according to a Florida anthropologist.

All about: Global fishing

It is commonly said that we know more about the Moon than the deep blue sea.

True or False: Trees

True or False: More carbon dioxide is good news for trees as it will boost growth levels.

All About: Cities and energy consumption

Humans can now officially be called an urban species. More than half of the global population now live in cities and the United Nations says that by 2030, 60 percent of us will live in them.

Beam me up: Just how close are we to teleportation?

Admit it -- at one point or another we've all dreamed of being able to teleport. How much easier and less stressful life would be if, at the flick of a switch, we could whisk ourselves direct from home to work without the intervening two hours crushed onto public transport, face wedged into the armpit of a man with a sweat gland problem.

Fortune: Physician, fool thyself

Can believing in a cure make it work? That question has long bedeviled researchers, who labor to rule out the placebo effect when they test new drugs. Yet there may be real value - as well as new h...

Computer decodes Mona Lisa's smile

Scientists analyzed the portrait of the Mona Lisa, a woman with famously mixed emotions, hoping to unlock her smile. They applied emotion recognition software that measures a person's mood by examining features such as the curve of the lips and the crinkles around the eyes.

October's show: The best in business travel

Forget the thousands of polls that turn out the obvious information on destinations, airlines and lounges. This month's CNN Business Traveller finds the top surveys that reveal the not so obvious.

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