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Basmati Wars With the military build up in the East, we bring news of a war in that region which has just been won - the Basmati war. For many years India has been fighting th... 14th Oct 2001	Hibernation May Hold the Key for Treatment of Stroke and Heart Disease Now that it is autumn, many animals will be preparing to bed down and sleep off the winter. Although humans can't hibernate, we might be able to learn some valuab... 7th Oct 2001
What Kind of Teabags Make the Best Tea? Teabags come in all shapes and sizes nowadays. But a group of researchers have shown that the shape of the teabag makes very little difference to your cuppa - it'... 7th Oct 2001	A Greener Funeral Freeze drying dead bodies may be a green alternative to burial and cremation, according to last week's New Scientist. Most of us would say we were concerned about... 7th Oct 2001
Computers That Sound Human People respond better to computer voices that mirror their own personalities, according to Nature this week. Anyone can tell the difference between a synthesised ... 7th Oct 2001	Brains Make Bad Investors Brains aren't everything. According to research by Barclays Global Investors, the higher your IQ, the more likely you are to be a bad investor. Intelligent people... 7th Oct 2001
Comet Sense It's been a memorable week for astronomers. Last Saturday NASA's Deep Space 1 survived a treacherous venture into the halo of dust surrounding Comet Borrelly and ... 7th Oct 2001	The Elixir of Love Love potions might exist after all because scientists from Emory University in Georgia have found a hormone that makes male voles fall in love. It makes them more... 30th Sep 2001
Pray for a Baby Prayer seems to almost double the success rate of in vitro fertilization procedures that lead to pregnancy. The study, involving 200 Korean women, found that a gr... 30th Sep 2001	Viagra Wears Off Recent research from the US suggests that Viagra, the anti-inpotence drug, can stop working for many patients after a few years. The scientists, from the universi... 30th Sep 2001

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