Mosquitos Provide the Design for New Hypodermics

Scientists are attempting to take the sting out of injections by developing a new kind of needle, modelled on the bite of a mosquito. The group, led by Seiji Aoyagi from Kansai University, Japan, have created a tiny needle measuring a millimetre long by 0.1 millimetres wid...

Tv Turns Kids Into Aggressive Adults

According to a recent report in the scientific journal Science, adolescents who watch more than 1 hour of TV per day are more likely to turn into aggressive adults than those who don't with boys generally behaving worse than girls. Girls who watch more than 2 hours of tele...

Good News for Vegetarians with Flatulance

Scientists at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in India have discovered that low intensity gamma waves, a kind of radiation used to sterilise foods and other things, can reduce the levels of oligosaccharides, the sugars responsible for causing flatulance, in vegetables ! Dist...