Kids Better at Recognising Pokemon Than Common Animals

"Kids these days know more about Pikachu than Jemima Puddleduck!"Cambridge's children are losing touch with nature, according to a report in Science this week. A survey conducted by zoologists at Cambridge University shown that eight year old children are better at recogn...

Japanese Invent Lip-reading Mobiles

Do you get sick of being surrounded by people yelling into their mobiles? It doesn't matter whether you're on the train, in the shops, in a posh restaurant - you are guaranteed to overhear some complete stranger discussing his latest break up in public. But there is hope! ...

Are Underground Tunnels Safe ?

In ten years time you will be able to take high speed trains through the Alps! This year, work will start on a tunnel almost 60 kilometres long and over 2 kilometres below ground. It will be the longest underground tunnel in the world and will cut journey time between Zuri...

Organic Food - 40% Dearer, 0% Better

Organically produced foods are often 40% more expensive than their non-organically produced counterparts and people often buy them in the mistaken belief that they are 'healthier' and 'purer' than the alternative. In Britain, Europe's largest organic consumer, last year we...

Hairdressers Watch Out !

A study carried out by doctors in Sweden has found that hairdressers are over 30% more likely to develop asthma than the rest of the population, after taking into account things known to aggravate the situation including smoking, hayfever and where you live. The risk was e...

A Crash Diet Could Save your Life

That's according to a report in New Scientist Magazine this week, heavy people are more likely to die or be seriously injured in a road accident compared with lighter individuals. American researchers looked at the weights of 26,000 car accident victims in Seattle, US, and...

Gm Chickens to Lay Eggs Containing Drugs

We reported 2 years ago that scientists were looking into ways of genetically modifying chickens to make them produce eggs containing drugs. This would be an excellent way to produce large amounts of pre-packaged drugs, fresh and on-demand. It could also be extremely usefu...

Woman May Be Pregnant with Human Clone

Rumours in the scientific world suggest that a woman may be pregnant with the first cloned human embryo, although her identity and country of origin are not known. Italian Severino Antinori and American Panos Zavos, fertility experts treating over 5000 couples with fertili...

Rice Touch - Syngenta Sequence the Rice Genome

Rice provides over 50% of the world population with more than 80% of their dietary needs, especially in the developing world and these numbers are likely to rise since doctors are suggesting that to tackle the obesity epidemic in the west we should switch to a more eastern...

A Never Emptying Glass…

Researcher Paul Dietz at Mitsubishi in Cambridge, US, have developed a drinking glass that automatically signals to barstaff when it needs a refill ! The iGlassware system uses en elctronic tag containing a microchip connected to a radio transmitter. The tags, which are su...