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Self-inflating Football to Boost your Game

Whenever your football goes a bit flat, your game suffers because you can never find the football pump. Now scientists in the US have invented the world's first s...
12th May 2002
 

Prince Charles Is Right to Talk to his Plants

Plants can feel pain, according to German researchers, and they talk to each other using chemical signals. Using highly sensitive microphones, Dr. Frank Kuhnemann...
5th May 2002
 

Autism Investigations Take a New Turn

The investigation into autism has taken a new twist, in that a new theory has emerged that autism is an autoimmuine disorder, In other words the result of the bod...
5th May 2002
 

Tea Drinking Cuts Death Rate Amongst Heart Attack Patients

Scientists will announce tomorrow that drinking Tea regularly if you have had a heart attack has a protective effect on your health, according to a report in the ...
5th May 2002
 

Fast Food Portions Are Getting Larger...as Are the People Who Eat It

Fast food advertisers are encouraging an epidemic in obesity. Windhause and Marlene from Louisiana State University studied fast food ads from the last 25 years o...
5th May 2002
 

A New Invention to Help you Get Rid of Spiders

A man from Hertfordshire has come up with a novel de-spidering device for removing spiders from walls or the sides of the bath. John Dony's invention consists of ...
5th May 2002
 

a Brain Stimulator to Cure Depression

A surgically implanted "pacemaker for the brain" significantly improves depression - and its benefits last for at least two years, according to the resu...
5th May 2002
 

Vulture Make-up

The make-up industry is never going to believe this, but scientists in Spain have shown how eating poo can be used for cosmetic effects. But luckily this doesn't ...
5th May 2002
 

Glowing Fish for your Fishtank Or Frankenstein Pets ?

A Taiwanese company has created a genetically modified zebra fish that will glow in the dark, but environmentalists are worried that the fish will start a trend f...
5th May 2002
 

Manganese Level in Cells Affects Rate of Hiv Growth

Scientists at Johns Hopkins University in the USA may have discovered a new way to tackle the problem of HIV, by increasing the levels of a substance called manga...
28th Apr 2002

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