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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...

PCs Saving the World

f you have a computer at home or at work which is on for long periods of time then you could be helping to find new drugs for HIV/AIDS, contributing to a model of...

Wanted People with Time on their Hands

The brains of bored volunteers could be the key to unlocking the secrets of distant star systems. Scientists working on the Stardust Mission, which returned from...

Spices Curry Favour in Fight against Alzheimers

Alzheimer's disease is certainly a hot topic this month because researchers from Singapore have found evidence for a protective effect of eating curry. Tze-Pin Ng...

See the Attachment... Ooops I Forgot.

How many times have you done that - sent an email and forgotten to add the attachment? Well now help is at hand in the form of  a system being developed by Fernando Pereira an...