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Vibrate your way to svelte-dom

Couch potatoes everywhere will be rubbing their hands together when they hear that preventing weight gain need not involve a rigorous gym trip. Indeed, if...

World's smallest solar panel, or should that be wire?

US scientists have taken solar cell technology a step further with the development of the solar nanowire - a solar device 200 times smaller than a human hair.Charles Li...

Scientists mussel-in on sticky surfaces

US reseachers studying how mussels anchor themselves to rocks, stones and jetties have stumbled upon a trick that can chemically coat any surface with something so sticky that it w...

RNA-away Hepatitis

Scientists in the US have uncovered how the body tackles certain viral infections, and the results might help to produce better ways to treat Hepatitis C.  Hepatitis C is a bl...

When you've got to go...

It's become traditional that Dr Chris nips to the little boys' room five minutes before every show, but scientists in Belgium have found a gene that may be partly responsible for t...

Researchers get to the bottom of coral clock

Working on the Great Barrier Reef, researchers at the University of Queensland in Australia have lifted the lid on one of the great marine mysteries of our time - how corals synchr...

Fancy Trainers make take you down the road to ruin

A new study in the British Journal of Sports Medicine compared the relative merits of nine pairs of trainers ranging in price from "economical" to "ludicrously expen...

Pill bad for Lapdancers' fortunes

A new study by researchers at the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque and published in this month's Evolution and Human Behaviour shows that female lapdancers seeking to supers...

Moose "bear" protective effects of roads in mind

Researchers in America's Grand Teton National Parks have found that moose have learned to use roads to shield their calves from grizzly bear attacks.Writing in Biology ...

Crocs Cry Real Tears

There’s an old myth that crocodiles cry in fake remorse while devouring a meal, which is why we say someone is “crying crocodile tears” when they insincerely turn on the waterworks...