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Lightning Helps To Genetically Modify Bacteria

Scientists often give bacteria an electric shock in the lab in order to encourage them to take up extra pieces of DNA, called plasmids, which are used in ge...

Light-fingerprint Helps To Pick Up Explosives From a Distance

Would-be terrorists could have their evil work made harder in the future, thanks to new advances in explosive detection by Florida scientists. Security forc...

The Body Clock And The Sleep / Wake Cycle (circadian Rhythm)

 The body clock comprises a tiny cluster of nerve cells sitting in the hypothalamus, which ...

Country Music Exposure Linked To Suicide

This year's Ig Nobel prize for medicine - one of a series of awards intended to recognise slightly more unusual research said to make people laugh, then ...

Termite Designs Could Enable Us To Live on The Moon

Famous for breaking down buildings, termites could reveal new ways to build homes in the future. African termites live in very complex mounds, which form a ...

World's First Gorilla Pacemaker Inserted

On 25th September a team of vets, cardiologists and surgeons from the University of Alabama have successfully inserted the first cardiac resynchronisation t...

Frisky Koalas To Receive Birth Control Measures

It's almost the classic conundrum - "what do you do if you see an endangered animal eating an endangered plant" - but that's exactly what's happen...

Allergy To Common Fungus The Cause of Constant Sniffles

Do you wake up in the morning all bunged up? Are you one of nature's snotty people? Always sniffling, looking for a tissue? I certainly am, and if you are t...

New Disorder Invented

So I mentioned in the intro, we have a new mental disorder - caffeine addiction - this is real, it's official. So do you find that you're missing your mo...

Musical Earth

Why do bees hum? Because they don't know the words ! But it looks like the planet earth might hum as well - at frequency of around 2 to 7 milihertz - way be...