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Human Surgery in Zero Gravity

Doctors lead by Frances Chief Surgeon Dominique Martin have become the first ever to perform surgery on a human in zero-g. The European Space Agency-backed ...

Purrfect Pussy

The cat guaranteed to spare you sneezes and wheezes - a US company - Allerca - are marketing a cat which they say will not trigger allergies. The moggies ar...

'Face on Mars' a Figment of Imagination

Many of you out there will be familiar with the image taken by the Viking 1 spacecraft that appears to show a giant face sculpted into the Landscape of Mars, but ...

A Strange Supernova is worrying cosmologists

A supernova is basically an exploding star, the explosion can be cause for a variety of reasons. A very important type is 1a, this is caused where an old star ember called a white ...

Computer Chips Communicating With Light

As computer chips get faster and faster moving information around them is getting more difficult, as sending information very fast electrically uses lots of...

Tree Code Cracked

Researchers at Ghent University in Belgium have managed to crack the genetic code of the humble poplar tree, working out the sequence of all the "lette...

Get Off your Butt To Beat Bowel Cancer

Researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre in the US have found that regular exercie may help to prevent bowel cancer. The researchers recrui...

Rich Pickings For Dinosaur Diggers

Good news this week for any of our listeners who are budding palaeontologists - there are still plenty of dinosaurs out there to discover. That's according ...

Fish Populations Out of Their Depth

Nearly half of the fish that we eat today haven't been caught from seas, rivers or lakes of the world but began life in a farm just like the beef, pork and ...

Electrical Discovery Galvanises Wound Healing

Researchers at Aberdeen University have proved that Benjamin Franklin was right all those years ago to zap injured people with electricity, because a squirt of cu...