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This coming Thursday is Valentine's day - in case you didn't know already! And I'm sure some of you will be planning candlelit dinners for your other halves but don't know what to cook. So here are some top scientific tips to help you cook your Valentine's day dinner : Oys...
There's more to a holiday than sun, surf and sex; if you are female that is. According to research in America, males and females have significantly different hopes for both how they'll spend their holiday. A survey of 534 students show that female students place greater im...
Mobile phones might have unexpected effects on human health, according to New Scientist this week. A team of scientists exposed nematode worms, a type of small worm, to microwave radiation similar to the kind of radiation emitted by mobile phones, and they found that the r...
The number of accidents involving radioactive materials in the UK has doubled over the past decade, according to the National Radiological Protection Board. In 2000 38 incidents were reported, compared with only 19 ten years earlier, in 1999. In one reported case 30 indust...
Common frogs in the South East of England are being wiped out in their thousands by a killer virus brought by goldfish imported from America, according to frog conservation group Froglife Trust. It sounds very unpleasant - the frogs die slowly, developing sores all over th...
Do you like skiing or snowboarding, and would like to learn, but you're scared that you'll end up hurtling helplessly downhill, out of control, and injuring yourself ? Luckily, help is at hand for newcomers to the pistes with the invention of skis and snowboards with built...