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9th Nov 2003

The Safety of Genetically Modified Plants

Why leaves change colour in autumn, how to avoid the flu in winter, T'ai Chi prevents shingles, scale of Guy Fawkes' bang, why some songs are catchy, anti-cocaine vaccine trial, anti-smoking bra, results of cannabis trial, plus interview guest plant scientist Prof. Roger Leigh discussing "the safety and application of GM crops".

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Why Do Leaves Change Colour in Autumn ?

Tree use their leaves make food. The leaves contain chlorophyll, a green pigment which together with light from the Sun, carbon dioxide and water results in glucose. Leaves nor...
 

How To Avoid The Flu This Winter

How you feel can powerfully affect the strength of your immune system and how susceptible you are to infection. Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found tha...
 

T'ai Chi Can Help Prevent Shingles

Shingles is caused by the same virus which causes chicken pox, the Herpes Zoster virus. Once you have had chicken pox, HZV lives in your nerve cells forever and can sometimes r...
 

How Big Would Guy Fawkes' Bang Have Been ?

We light bonfires and set of fireworks on November the 5th to commemorate the fact that in 1605 Guido Fawkes, now known as Guy, failed to blow up the Houses of Parliament. But ...
 

Brain 'itch' Keeps Catchy Songs in Our Heads

Don’t you just hate it when you get an annoying song stuck in your head and you can’t stop humming it all day? Researchers in America think this happens because the...
 

New Bra To Help Smokers Quit

A Swiss underwear company has come up with a bra containing lavender and jasmine perfumed capsules, which makes cigarettes have an extremely unpleasant taste. ...
 

Uk Researchers Begin Anti-cocaine Vaccine Trial

A new vaccine to treat cocaine addiction is about to be put to the test in America by its UK designers Xenova Pharmaceuticals. Called TA-CD the vaccine works by encouraging an ...
 

Hope For Dope ?

The results of the first large-scale trial to investigate the benefits of cannabis extracts in multiple sclerosis are out this week. Multiple sclerosis, or MS, is a crippling d...

Fact or Fiction

Raindrops are tear-shaped
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The word "laser" stands for "Light active streams emitted by radioactivity"
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Sloths mate and give birth whilst hanging upside down in trees
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The emu is the world’s furthest walking bird, migrating up to 320 miles?
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Drinking lime juice can prevent the disease Ricketts
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Glucose is a kind of protein
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The chemical used to kills germs in a swimming pool is called chlorine
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The biggest ever known bird egg is equal to 12,000 of the smallest known ones?
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Women produce sperm and men produce eggs
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The population of the UK is about 100 million
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