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 Food for thought - two chemicals control appetiteScientists have found that a combination of two appetite-controlling hormones can provoke significant weight loss in obese animals, suggesting that the same ought to work for fat h... 11th May 2008
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 A fuel station in your garageThe rush towards biofuels to run your car on keeps going even if the mathematics behind it are possibly dubious. Now an American company has built an ethanol generation system for ... 11th May 2008
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  Is this the basis of Bird Navigation?Scientists have shown how birds might be able to see the Earth's magnetic field, helping them to navigate. A team from Oxford University and Arizona State University, writing... 4th May 2008
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 Plant Aids in HIV BattleScientists have discovered how to make large amounts of a plant chemical which has potent anti-HIV effects. ... 4th May 2008
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 Best tool to find explosives? Mine's a mongoose!Engineers in Sri Lanka have come up with a cheap but effective way to locate landmines - a mongoose tethered to a robot! ... 27th Apr 2008
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 Vitamin death-link hard pill to swallowVitamin supplements might make you die sooner, say researchers. Goran Bjelakovic and his colleagues, from the University of Copenhagen, looked at the resul... 20th Apr 2008
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 Testosterone beefs up market bubblesResearchers at the University of Cambridge have discovered that the performance of financial traders is linked to their hormones. ... 20th Apr 2008
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 Evolution seen on a laboratory benchIn an experiment that might help to silence the critics of evolution, scientists in California have made genes evolve on a laboratory bench. Writing in thi... 13th Apr 2008
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 Bacteria eat antibioticsScientists in the US have discovered large numbers of soil-dwelling bacteria that are not only resistant to multiple classes of antibiotics, they also eat them! ... 6th Apr 2008
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 Bad memories lost to the etherA new study has shown that a whiff of anaesthetic might be able to wipe away bad memories and even prevent post-traumatic stress disorder.... 30th Mar 2008
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