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Global Warming in your Garden

Mention the word "global warming" and images of rising sea levels and Polar ice melting spring to mind…….but did you know that global warming ...

Basmati Wars

With the military build up in the East, we bring news of a war in that region which has just been won - the Basmati war. For many years India has been fighting th...

Hibernation May Hold the Key for Treatment of Stroke and Heart Disease

Now that it is autumn, many animals will be preparing to bed down and sleep off the winter. Although humans can't hibernate, we might be able to learn some valuab...

What Kind of Teabags Make the Best Tea?

Teabags come in all shapes and sizes nowadays. But a group of researchers have shown that the shape of the teabag makes very little difference to your cuppa - it'...

A Greener Funeral

Freeze drying dead bodies may be a green alternative to burial and cremation, according to last week's New Scientist. Most of us would say we were concerned about...

Computers That Sound Human

People respond better to computer voices that mirror their own personalities, according to Nature this week. Anyone can tell the difference between a synthesised ...

Brains Make Bad Investors

Brains aren't everything. According to research by Barclays Global Investors, the higher your IQ, the more likely you are to be a bad investor. Intelligent people...

Comet Sense

It's been a memorable week for astronomers. Last Saturday NASA's Deep Space 1 survived a treacherous venture into the halo of dust surrounding Comet Borrelly and ...

The Elixir of Love

Love potions might exist after all because scientists from Emory University in Georgia have found a hormone that makes male voles fall in love. It makes them more...

Pray for a Baby

Prayer seems to almost double the success rate of in vitro fertilization procedures that lead to pregnancy. The study, involving 200 Korean women, found that a gr...