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Researchers scratch the surface of understanding itching

Researchers have uncovered a gene that transmits the itch sensation. The result means that drugs capable of providing the pharmacological equvalent of a "scratch" could s...

Diesel exhaust at the heart of arterial disease

Researchers have found that airbourne pollution can trigger damage to blood vessels. Ke Wei Gong and colleagues, from the University of California at Los Angeles, culture endotheli...

China Cleaning up Beijing's Act for Olympics

The Chinese government have announced funding for a large-scale wind farm on the outskirts of Beijing in an effort to cut pollution in time for the 2008 Olympics. The 580 mil...

Flood discovery make waves over origins of English Channel

Researchers based in London have uncovered the event to which Britain owes its island existence. Writing in this week's Nature Sanjeev Gupta and Jenny Col...

Geckos "mussel in" on underwater adhesive scene

Researchers have successfully combined two of natures most powerful adhesive strategies to produce the underwater equivalent of a post-it note! Writing in...

Do you need two Ears?

Do you find it hard to listen to two things at once? Maybe you’re watching the TV and someone is trying to talk to you? If so, then it seems you might be ...

Sweet taste of success as researchers uncover gene that causes diabetes

Researchers have found a new gene that is strongly linked to the development of type 1 or "juvenile" diabetes. Hakon Hakonarson, from the Childr...

Bad News for British Seabirds.

That’s according to the RSPB who have announced this week that colonies of seabirds, like puffins, kittiwakes and Manx shearwaters are not doing very well at all in their normal br...

Have a break. Have a kitkat...well maybe not, but you will lose more weight

Japanese researchers have found that when it comes to exercise and weight loss, the perceived wisdom of quantity over quality might be wrong. Tokyo Univer...

iLightning

A paper in this week's New England Journal describes a man admitted to hospital with a rather strange pattern of skin injuries including ruptured eardrums, a broken jaw and burns t...