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How can a drug taken by 500,000 people a week be dangerous ? Quite literally more people have died going fishing than from taking Ecstasy. But scientists are beginning to find that there is a more sinister side to Ecstasy that doesn't become apparent until some years down ...
The art of tell your future from the lines on your palm may not be so ridiculous after all, and it can certainly be used to indicate your past, say researchers this week. They found that children with learning difficulties which were due to problems whilst they were growin...
A recent study has shown that people who live near airports are more likely to have high blood pressure than those who live further away. What's more, the longer you have been living near to an airport, the higher your blood pressure is likely to be. This is almost certain...
Americans got their first taste of a new kind of contraceptive device this week with the launch of Ortho Evra, the first contracptive skin patch. It works by continuously releasing artificial forms of the female hormones oestrogen and progesterone through the skin and into...
The US government is laying itself wide open to cyber attacks - that's attacks on its computer system by terrorists or any kind of hacker. This week's New Scientist says the government scored an F grade in a recent security assessment- that's even worse than last year when...
I'm sure most people know that yesterday was World Aids Day. Its 20 years since AIDS emerged as a killer disease. Since then over 20 million people world-wide have died from the disease and almost 1 in four of those are children. In some of the worst hit countries like Sou...
Everyone is talking about Harry Potter these days. The magical community can certainly do some amazing things - levitate, make themselves invisible, fly broomsticks, travel back in time…But are we Muggles (that's non-magic people) that far behind? According to Focus magazi...
It looks like China will be the third country to send astronauts into space. According to this week's New Scientist, China could have people in space by 2005. And according to some reports the Chinese are even planning moon missions and space stations. The only other count...
For an unknown reason, having a jab seems to reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer's Disease amongst the elderly. Article about the anti-Alzheimer's Vaccine
