Did you Have Red Or White Wine with your Turkey ?

Medical researchers at London University may have solved the mystery of why red wine is good for you and therefore possibly explaining why people in France live so long, despite a diet high in saturated fats. Roger Corder and his team from Barts and the Royal London medica...

Did you Add Salt to your Christmas Dinner ?

We should try not to add salt to our food, according to research published this week, because it leads to higher blood pressure, heart disease and strokes. The body needs about a gram of salt per day, but most of us eat at least 9 times that much, and in some parts of the ...

From One Fussy Eater to the Next

German botanists working in Brunei have discovered a surprising fussy-eater - a plant. Most insect-eating plants like Sundews and Venus fly traps, will consume any small creature unlucky enough to come their way, but a pitcher plant in Brunei's rainforest only eats termite...

Britannia Rules the Brainwaves

Britons are more intelligent that we were 60 years ago, according to recent research ! According to James Flynn and his colleagues from the University of Otago in New Zealand, we are about 27 IQ points brighter since world war 2. Americans are only 24 points cleverer, he r...