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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 t... |
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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 ... |
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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... |
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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 a... |
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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 governme... |
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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 dise... |
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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 t... |
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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 r... |
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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 ... |
