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A new discovery this week could help people with HIV and AIDS. A US Army doctor working in Thailand has found that when AIDS patients are infected with a disease called Scrub Typhus, the amount of HIV in their blood falls dramatically, and remains low after they have recov...
A cunning molecule shaped like a meatball and studded with molecular bait , could be the answer to combating biological weapons. Deadly viruses are popular candidates for biological warfare, as they can penetrate gas masks and protective clothing. To infect cells, viruses ...
A family in Merseyside are very grateful to a magpie that has come to live in their garden - so far it’s left £1.70 in loose change on the bird-table !
Good news for women, and other chocolate addicts, chocolate is good for your teeth, a new study has shown. Japanese researchers have found that parts of the cocoa bean used to make chocolate, can thwart mouth bacteria and stop dental decay. Tooth decay starts when Streptoc...
It is every drivers dream! Stuck in a traffic jam? No problem. Simply strap on your personal helicopter and fly away from it all. The personal flying machine, developed in the US is called the Solotrek. The pilot stands up in the machine and flies it using hand controls an...
Doctors have come up with a new artificial heart pump which has been tested for the first time on a British man. The thumb-sized turbine pump was designed in New York by Robert Jarvik. It is inserted into the left ventricle, the main heart chamber, and pumps blood into the...
Overweight lions at Longleat safari park are being encouraged to exercise to help them shed excess weight. According to a report in the Worcestershire Evening Mail, the lions are forced to grab their food from a fast-moving truck to try and keep them in trim !...
Chimpanzees are on their way to becoming half-decent chefs! Captive chimps in Madrid have begun to puree their own fruits and vegetables, in what looks like the first case of an ape transforming food to improve its taste and texture. Although chimps have traditionally used...
Six lucky Norwegian chimpanzees at a zoo in Copenhagen inherited 40,600 pounds this week ! The chimps, called Jimmy, Trunte, Fifi, Trine, Grine and Gigi, were left the cash in the will of an 83 year old women. A spokesman for the zoo said that the money would be used to im...
A village in northern Italy is soon to hold the countries first ever mosquito-swatting contest ! 25 male contestants will be given 5 minutes to swat as many mozzies as they can. Judges will then count up the corpses and the swatter with the most to his name will win a pres...
Two Russians were picked up by Police in Kings Lynn this week for eating carp they caught from a lake in Hilgay, Norfolk. The two men had each paid 5 pounds for a day’s fishing permit and caught 12 fish between them. However, instead of returning the fish to the water...
On the subject of fish, apparently rules dictate that anglers are not allowed to take their catches on public buses. However, a 5 year old Joseph Morgan and his grandmother, from Glen Parva, Leicestershire, were surprised to be turned away by the driver of their local bus ...
Can you help find this missing lobster ? 15 year old albino lobster ‘Ariel’, so named because he is bright white, has gone missing from Newquay’s Sea-life centre. His absence was discovered earlier in the week by curator Karl Thompson who fears he may have b...
Huge numbers of tiny mediterranean water fleas have been detected for the first time in the North Sea, joining sharks, giant sun-fish and warm-water corals. The findings will trigger fears that global warming is causing permanent changes to the marine life of the region....
A test for smells that can distinguish between real and counterfeit perfumes has been developed by chemists at the University of Illinois. To make the sensor, scientists impregnated small teflon discs with 24 compounds called metalloporphyrins, which contain metal ions. Be...
A happy ending and a not so happy ending for this lost animal now. Busta, a pet snake who went missing 8 months ago has been found safe and sound - in a nearby block of flats, stuck in the cage of a hamster…the reason that he was stuck in the cage was that he had just...
Do you know a grumpy german, or are you yourself a grumpy german ? Scientists think that may be able to explain why Germans are renowned for their poor sense of humour. Research carried out by psychologist professor David Myers from Hope College, Michigan, suggests that th...
