American researchers claim that they have pin-pointed the cause of tinnitus – a breakthrough they believe could be a major step in understanding how to treat this life-changing condition. Tinnitus is thought to afflict ten per cent of the British population. Symptoms commonly involve hearing ringing, and buzzing noises loud enough to impair hearing and [...]

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  What is uranium dating? Uranium dating is one of the ways of determining the age of ancient objects, even one million years old, by measuring how much of the following are present in them: the amount of radioactive isotopes of uranium, and the amount of other materials into which the radioactive isotopes would decompose. [...]

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