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Apparently it's all to do with a small area at the back of the brain called the cerebellum. Scientists at University College London found that the cerebellum lit up when volunteers tickled themselves, but not when a robotic tickling device was used. They think that this ki...
A substance found in human saliva can kill several types of bacteria and fungi, some of which are resistant to currently available drugs, researchers at the University of Buffalo have found. MUC7 20-mer, as it is known, is taken up by bacterial and fungal cells and stops t...
Source: The Independent (Thursday March 14th )Did you ever get told off for chewing gum at school? That could soon be a thing of the past, thanks to new findings which prove that chewing gum increases your memory! Researchers gave three groups of volunteers a series of mem...
Last week we were talking rather light-heartedly about the chances of an asteroid colliding with the Earth. We might have taken this subject a little more seriously if we'd known about this next report:- Last Saturday one of the largest asteroids ever to approach the Earth...
Dr. Frank Erwin and his team at the McGill University in Montreal, Canada, have done some research into monkey's drinking habits. Monkeys behave like humans at a cocktail party - one gets aggressive, one is sexy, one thinks everything is funny and one gets grumpy. They als...
Have you ever wanted to go up in space? You might get your chance yet - scientists in Russia have unveiled a spacecraft designed to take tourists into space rather than trained astronauts. The first tourist trip might be as early as 2004. The new craft, called the Cosmopol...
Diseases caused by an unhealthy lifestyle such as smoking, alcohol, drug abuse and obesity are pushing the NHS close to collapse. Smoking related illness costs the NHS about 1.5 billion pounds per year, obesity 1.78 billion, and alcohol-related diseases about 3 billion. Wo...
Do you worry about having clammy handshake and seeming really nervous in interviews because of sweaty palms? Scientists at UCLA, the University of California, have found that this embarrassing affliction is not a sign of nervousness, but is instead a more widespread proble...
