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Japanese Invent Lip-reading Mobiles

Do you get sick of being surrounded by people yelling into their mobiles? It doesn't matter whether you're on the train, in the shops, in a posh restaurant - you ...
6th Apr 2002
 

Are Underground Tunnels Safe ?

In ten years time you will be able to take high speed trains through the Alps! This year, work will start on a tunnel almost 60 kilometres long and over 2 kilomet...
6th Apr 2002
 

Organic Food - 40% Dearer, 0% Better

Organically produced foods are often 40% more expensive than their non-organically produced counterparts and people often buy them in the mistaken belief that the...
6th Apr 2002
 

Hairdressers Watch Out !

A study carried out by doctors in Sweden has found that hairdressers are over 30% more likely to develop asthma than the rest of the population, after taking into...
6th Apr 2002
 

A Crash Diet Could Save your Life

That's according to a report in New Scientist Magazine this week, heavy people are more likely to die or be seriously injured in a road accident compared with lig...
6th Apr 2002
 

Gm Chickens to Lay Eggs Containing Drugs

We reported 2 years ago that scientists were looking into ways of genetically modifying chickens to make them produce eggs containing drugs. This would be an exce...
6th Apr 2002
 

Woman May Be Pregnant with Human Clone

Rumours in the scientific world suggest that a woman may be pregnant with the first cloned human embryo, although her identity and country of origin are not known...
6th Apr 2002
 

Rice Touch - Syngenta Sequence the Rice Genome

Rice provides over 50% of the world population with more than 80% of their dietary needs, especially in the developing world and these numbers are likely to rise ...
6th Apr 2002
 

A Never Emptying Glass…

Researcher Paul Dietz at Mitsubishi in Cambridge, US, have developed a drinking glass that automatically signals to barstaff when it needs a refill ! The iGlasswa...
6th Apr 2002
 

Lake Vostok Analysis Simplified

Lake Vostok is the world's largest subglacial or literally 'beneath the ice' lake in thw world. It was discovered in 1996 when scientists were looking at radar im...
24th Mar 2002

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