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Foiling Criminals With New X-ray Fluorescence Fingerprinting

Scientists from the US are giving a helping hand to forensics with a new technology that detects otherwise invisible fingerprints. Traditional fingerprinti...

Blinding Insects To Smells May Be The Best Repellent

Scientists have unearthed a genetic linch pin which enables insects to pick up smells. Without it they cannot detect airbourne odours, including their next...

Simply Shocking

Researchers working for the US military are developing a laser stun gun capable of inflicting paralysis and excruciating pain on anyone unlucky enough to b...

Moans For Phones

If you're looking to spice up your mobile text life, then adult film company New Frontier Media might have just the thing for you - not ring tones but ring...

Peckish Pilferers Fingered By Snack-attack

House breakers seem to have more than just an appetite for crime - frequently they get tempted by more than just the contents of the jewelry box and tend to...

Migration of Monarch Butterflies Could Be Key To Species' Survival

Scientists in the USA think that the annual monarch butterfly migration marathon from Canada to Central America may be keeping the species in tip top shape ...

Hungry Snakes Have Huge Hearts

To help snakes cope with enormous meals, scientists at the University of California have found that the heart of a python expands by 50%. And it's all than...

Smile Without a Cary in The World

Japanese researchers have developed a new filling material that does away with the dental drill by latching onto damaged tooth surfaces and integrating its...

Nasa Scientists Thaw Out 30,000 Year-old Bugs

NASA scientists working on samples of Alaskan permafrost have discovered a new form of life that has been frozen in time for over 30,000 years. When the sci...

With This Bone, I Thee Wed

Royal College of Art jewellery designer Nikki Stott has come up with a highly original concept in wedding bands - a ring grown from the bone of the betroth...