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It's on the tip of my tongue - and that's where it'll stay if you're not careful

The claim that we learn from our mistakes would appear to be wrong, according to a new study from Canada....

Cornflakes for boys

We know that many reptiles like crocodiles can choose the sex of their offspring by controlling the temperature their eggs are incubated at. And now it has been revealed that human...

Vitamin death-link hard pill to swallow

Vitamin supplements might make you die sooner, say researchers. Goran Bjelakovic and his colleagues, from the University of Copenhagen, looked at the resul...

Testosterone beefs up market bubbles

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have discovered that the performance of financial traders is linked to their hormones. ...

Researchers take long look at shortsightedness

Your birthday could affect your risk of shortsightedness, a study in Israel has found. Writing in the journal Opthalmology, Jossi Mandel studied the medica...

Bacteria eat antibiotics

Scientists 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! ...

Feed a cold, for definite

Scientists have come up with strong immunological evidence for why you should always feed a cold. Writing in Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, Lynn Ma...

Satellites spot cholera

Cholera kills thousands of people every year.  It's a diarrhoeal illness caused by a bacterium, Vibrio cholerae, which is carried harmlessly in the intestines and on the surfa...

Primate Gamble Pays Off

In a study which might help to explain why humans sometimes make rash decisions that don't pay off, scientists have uncovered the evolutionary origin of why some animals are partia...

Cloned tissue cure Parkinson's Mice

Scientists have used cloning technology to cure mice with the symptoms of Parkinson's Disease, using their own cells....