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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...

Penguins change their minds on their favourite food

Penguins living in the Antarctic have changed their minds about their favourite food, a change of diet that could have been triggered by the hunting of whales and seals over the la...

Researchers confirm the existence of water on an extrasolar planet

For the first time researchers have been able to say with certainty that there is water on a distant planet. Writing in this week's Nature, UCL's Giovanna...

Good news for lovers of muck and magic.

There was good news this week for lovers of muck and magic, because it seems that organic farming could be capable of producing enough food to feed the world. ...

Attractive way to diagnose cancer

Researchers at the University of New Mexico and Albuquerque company Senior Scientific are testing a new breed of iron oxide-based magnetic nanoparticles that are encased in a bioco...

Modern Human's "Garden of Eden" confirmed as Africa

Where we modern humans all came from has been a subject of intense debate. Some parties suggest that modern humans sprang up in several places around the globe whilst others have s...

Bacteria on hunger strike

A paper in Nature this week contains worrying news for waterways. Bacterial communities living in estuaries usually protect the sea from pollution by remo...

Fly toolbox

A powerful new tool for geneticists is announced in Nature this week in the form of a comprehensive genetic library that can be used to shut off any gene in any tissue of a fruit f...

Do women really talk more than men?

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