Among our most benign experiments are those with people who voluntarily isolate themselves for extended periods.

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"Our experiments suggest that using links instead of Javascript greatly reduces the rendering energy for the page, " the researchers said.

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Columbia University's Richard Axel, whose work on mapping the genes and receptors of our sense of smell garnered the 2004 Nobel prize for physiology, said the kinds of experiments revealed this week would not resolve the debate - only a microscopic look at the receptors in the nose would finally show what is at work.

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