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Phew - Light Exercise Is As Good for you As a Hefty Work-out...

Exercise doesn’t have to be hell to be healthy, new research has shown. A new study carried out at Harvard School of Public Health in America has found that ...

Athletes Can Train at Altitude Without Leaving the Comfort of Their Beds

A new gadget to help athletes get the full advantage of altitude training from the comfort of their bed at home has recently been unveiled by New York company Hyp...

Cooked Vegetables Better for you Than Raw, Say Scientists

Cooked carrots may be better for you, say scientists from the University of Arkansas. They found that cooked pureed carrots showed higher levels of antioxidants t...

Nicotine Is Fatally Addicitive

Yet more evidence that Nicotine is fatally attractive, following findings that a single cigarette can trigger a long-lasting chemical change in brain cells. Dopam...

What Will Advertisers Think of Next ?

Don’t go away when the adverts come on! A British company has come up with a trick that it hopes will keep you watching your TV or the cinema screen or liste...

Snowing Straw in Suffolk

Suffolk householders watched in disbelief this week as it rained straw for 20 minutes, filling their gardens ! Weather experts believe that a mini-tornado may hav...

Electricians at Greater Risk of Suicide

Exposure to electrical cables may make you more likely to commit suicide, a recent American study has shown. Resaerchers from the University of North Carolina stu...

Vegetarians Watch Out...

A recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that vegetarians should always read the labels on food supplements extremely carefully. A...

Pheromone Face-wipes Set to Boost your Pulling Power.

Do you want to increase your pulling power on the dance-floor ? We may have just the thing for you - pheromone face wipes ! ‘Kiotech’, a London biotech ...

Beer Is Good for You

2 weeks ago on ScienceWorld we told you about new research that has found powerful antioxidants similar to those found in Red wine, fruit and vegetables, in beer,...