Depending on how the Supreme Court decides on the case it decided to take up Friday afternoon, biotech companies might soon be able to patent ownership of essential parts of our bodies.
Discovered: The world's lightest material; babies understand more than we thought; even in the womb, identical twins aren't completely identical; superweeds are resistant to RoundUp.
Discovered: Gaydar is 80 percent real, today's forest fires are different than ancient ones, baby galaxies grow up too fast, and the success gene is real.
Discovered: Definitive proof that the IQ gene exists, women are the moral sex, America has the world's saltiest food and the right way to respond to an earthquake.
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