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FULL TITLE: Parachutes do NOT save the lives of people who jump from aeroplanes, claim sarcastic scientists in a study designed to reveal how flawed 'research' can be 'This largely resulted from our ability to only recruit participants jumping from stationary aircraft on the ground,' the scientists wrote. The researchers revealed the parachute did not deploy for all 12 of the volunteers because of the 'short duration and altitude of falls'. They sarcastically described their study as groundbreaking'. And they added it 'should give momentary pause to experts who advocate for routine use of parachutes for jumps from aircraft in...

Scientists wielding a powerful supercomputer have cracked the mystery of which came first, the chicken or the egg. The short answer: the chicken. The long answer is contained in the analysis called Structural Control of Crystal Nuclei by Eggshell Protein by British scientists Colin Freeman and John Harding of the University of Sheffield and David Quigley and P. Mark Rodger of the University of Warwick, published in the current journal Angewandte Chemie. “It had long been suspected that the egg came first, but now we have the scientific proof that shows in fact the chicken came first,” said Freeman. Sort...