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Researchers from Harvard Medical school announced last week that they may have stumbled upon a way to produce a new kind of contraceptive pill. Scientists David Clapham and Dejian Ren have discovered a tiny channel on the tails of sperms that lets calcium, into the sperm. ...
If you're fond of wandering round in an alcoholic haze then outer space is a good place to be, according to BBC science online last week. There are billions of tonnes of alcohol floating around in a giant cloud near the centre of the galaxy. Astronomers have known...
For most of us, turning on the tap and drinking a glass of clean water is something that we take for granted, but the WHO estimates that 3 and a half million people, mostly childen in the third world, die each year from diseases caught from contaminated water. Most of thes...
90% of India's population live in remote villages and don't even have access to telephones, let alone to the internet. But now researchers in Madras have worked out a cheap way of connecting rural communities to the web. They've designed an internet kiosk which doesn't nee...
A Derbyshire pparrot, sick of being terrorised by cats, has developed a cunning plan to get his revenge - by learning to imitate a dog's bark, which usually scares the cats off sharpish!
Researchers have discovered a new aid to diagnosing Down's syndrome, a genetic condition caused by a developing baby having an extra copy of chromosome number 21. The condition can only be diagnosed with certainty by taking a sample of the fluid surrounding the baby inside...
A new comet is coming to the skies of Cambridge for Christmas. It's called 2000WH1, an is set to appear soon, but it won't be back for a while. Scientists are predicting that it will not apear again for at least another 100,000 years. The comet measures 2 miles across, is ...
