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This discovery has led Dr. Gates to the startling science-fictionish conclusion that "the Hudson Highlands of New York may have once been a part of South America".

Now it looks as if truth may be more startling than science fiction.

The concept of fetal programming, of the developmental origins of health and disease, came out of the Dutch "Hunger Winter" -- a startling episode in science and history.

With wit and sly humour it mixed poetry, science and startling radical notions: a sheaf of "Additional Notes" explored everything from meteors to Wedgwood's Portland vase, from clouds and coal to shell-fish and steam-engines.

The percentage of people who do not believe the evidence of science is startling.

Twentieth-century science delivered many startling facts about the universe, but the one Joni Mitchell sang about at Woodstock is still a clear favourite with science writers.

One of the most startling discoveries of early Greek science was that the fundamental intervals of music, the octave, the fourth, and the fifth, corresponded to whole number ratios of string length.

Science can move at a startling pace.

Advances in the physical sciences have contributed to this startling growth.

After 25 years as a science writer, I've learned this startling fact Babies are genetically disposed to living a long time old people, a short time.

That startling conclusion, reported in tomorrow's issue of Science,* upsets the widely held view that life's lessons play a dominant role in determining an elderly person's cognitive ability.