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Apparently in London you are never further than 10 feet from a rat !
But rats aren't just pests because a team of researchers at Baltimore University have trained a squad of 'sniffer' rats which they say are just as good as traditional sniffer dogs.
According to the re...
Mexicans could be supplementing their diets in an original way soon - with ground up beetle larvae ! Barba de la Rosa, from Mexico's Potosi Institute of Science and Technology, has suggested that grubs of the yellow meal-worm beetle could be added to flour for making torti...
Scientists at North Carolina State University in the USA have found a compound in tomatoes which is an effective mosquito repellent. The compound is called IBI-246 and is at least as effective as DEET (or N, N-diethyl-meta-tolumide) which is the active ingredient in most s...
Engineers are due to start building the world's longest and deepest underground tunnel beneath the Alps. Work will begin this year on the Gotthard Base Tunnel, which will stretch for a staggering 57 kilometres below ground at depths of up to 2 kilometres. At this depth, wo...
Australian scientists have unveiled an unusual invention recently - a thinking cap, which they claim can improve the drawing skills of the wearer within 15 minutes of putting it on. The cap, which was developed at Sydney's Centre for the Mind, uses magnets to stimulate the...
Eating chilli prevents you from tasting other flavours properly, according to scientists at the University of California. The researchers found that volunteers reported that sweet and bitter flavours were less intense after capsaicin, the chemical from Chilli peppers, was ...
Costing £3 billion or 4.6 billion euros, Italy has finally decided to give the go-ahead to build the World's longest suspension bridge, connecting mainland Italy to Sicily. The bridge will be 2 miles long and will take 5 or 6 years to build and is due to be started i...
Botox is short for botulinum toxin which is produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum which causes a severe and often fatal form of food poisoning called Botulism. The toxin prevents nerve cells from communicating with muscles, leading to paralysis and often death. B...
