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Better way to battle allergy

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Music to make your heart sing

Listening to your favourite, feel-good music might not only put you in a great mood but it could also be good for your heart.  Researchers from the Un...

Thank bacteria for the flavour of food

Swiss scientists have solved a Sauvignon conundrum this week with the discovery that part of the flavour of the famous white wine is down to bacteria in your own mouth! The French ...

Sunspot weather link

Scientists have found an intriguing association between solar activity and the amount of water in one of South America's largest rivers.  The 4000km-long Parana river has the ...

Rock-steady way to tackle rising Carbon Dioxide

Barrack Obama has famously pledged to put the US at the forefront of global warming (cynics would say it already is!), so it's fitting that a US scientist has this week developed a...

Flu clue to pandemic potential

Analysis of one of the genes in the H5N1 flu virus, which is viewed as the best contender for the next pandemic, has shed new light on the virus's awesome virulence. ...

A fungal solution to climate change?

The fight against future climate change may have an unexpected ally, in the form of mushrooms living on the soils of northern Spruce forests of Alaska, Canada and Scandinavia. ...

Booze-prone brain behaviour

Scientists have uncovered a genetic reason why some people are prone to alcoholism. ...

The world’s smallest solar panels

The world’s most minute solar panel cells have been built and tested and one day in the not too distant future they could be used to power even tinier microscopic machines. ...

Son of Tsunami

The Boxing Day tsunami has several predecessors, scientists have found. Two papers in this week's Nature by Geoscience Australia researcher Amy Prendergast and team, and Kent State...