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A recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that vegetarians should always read the labels on food supplements extremely carefully. A relatively common ingredient added to these kinds of foods is “orchis” which in fact means “bul...
Do you want to increase your pulling power on the dance-floor ? We may have just the thing for you - pheromone face wipes ! ‘Kiotech’, a London biotech company has launched a brand of face-wipes soaked in 50 different human pheromones - these are the substances p...
2 weeks ago on ScienceWorld we told you about new research that has found powerful antioxidants similar to those found in Red wine, fruit and vegetables, in beer, which can reduce the risk of heart disease and cancer. However, just in case you were considering switching to...
You are better off having a baby a during the day than at night, new research has shown. Investigations of 400,000 birth records by German doctors has shown that although the chance of a baby dying in the first week of life is very low it is still twice as great in babies ...
Doctors are blaming the western diet for increasing levels of asthma amongst young people. A study carried out on children in Saudi Arabia by Professor Anthony Seaton from the University of St Andrews has found that asthma and allergy become more common the more fast food ...
Two business men are turning a retired 177 ft long Lockheed Tristar Jet into a restaurant - though they insist that it won’t be serving aeroplane food ! Father and son Kane and Bobby Sodhi have obtained planning permission from Derby city council to move the plane to ...
A 38 year old woman ended up in hospital this week when she was hit by a giant finger ! The 6 ft hanging finger, a direction-sign at the central railway station in Zurich, became detached and fell on the woman’s head, causing her bruising and shock. A railway spokesma...
Making even smaller and faster computer chips will become a ‘PC of cake’ thanks to a new discovery by chip designers at computer giant IBM. The research team can now make chips in which the silicon channels that carry electricity around the chip are only 1/100,00...
