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Fossil experts have unearthed some very strange facts about Sue - the most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex ever discovered, according to New Scientist this week. A post mortem examination tells us that Sue survived a whole host of injuries and illnesses during her lifetime - so...
Traffic fumes make city centres very unpleasant places for pedestrians and cyclists alike, but Cambridge is well on the way to tackling this problem - buses that give off water vapour instead of poisonous fumes are to be introduced to the streets of Cambridge over the next...
Now some news from the other side of the world. It's getting wintry over here, but it's spring time in the Southern hemisphere, and this means it's the start of the ozone hole season. People from the South will be slapping on the sunblock, because this year's ozone hole lo...
Would you chat with your computer? Probably not. But this is exactly what a group of people will be doing at the Science Museum in London this weekend. And $100,00 is up for grabs for the best conversation. This may sound like a mad way to spend a weekend, but this event i...
European cigarette manufacturers are to face stiffer regulations on cigarette marketing following a new EU directive this week. From January 2004 misleading slogans such as 'light' and 'low tar' will have to be dropped, and at least 30% of the packet front and 40% of the b...
Mention the word "global warming" and images of rising sea levels and Polar ice melting spring to mind…….but did you know that global warming is acting closer to home, and has already affected your garden? Last year a massive survey run by the Woodland ...
With the military build up in the East, we bring news of a war in that region which has just been won - the Basmati war. For many years India has been fighting the US over patents for the distinctive Basmati rice, which grows at the foothills of the Himalayas. RiceTec, a U...
