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18th Jan 2004

Autism & The Difference Between Men and Womens' Brains

Commercial GM crop planting to begin in UK, fish communicate by farting, whales and sharks eating giant squid, cloned GM cows engineered to resist BSE, Bee genome sequenced, why does egg change colour when you cook it ?, how do fish breathe underwater, science fact or science fiction and interview guest Professor Simon Baron-Cohen discusses the differences between how men and women think, and what is autism ?

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Science News

 

Researchers Cloning Cows To Prevent Bse

The recent discovery in the US of a cow suffering from BSE or mad cow disease has prompted a group of scientists at the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicin...
 

Bees Join The Genome Club

Bees have become the latest organism, and the third insect after fruit flies and mosquitos, to have their genetic blueprint decoded. A team of scientists in Texas led by Dr. Ri...
 

World&#8217;s Longest Snake

A group of villagers in indonesia are claiming to have caught the world’s biggest snake – a python nearly 50 feet in length, weighing over 70 stone. If the report i...
 

Uk About To Approve First Commercial Gm Crops

Love them or hate them, GM crops look set to stay and farmers could be planting the UK’s first commercial GM crops this spring. That’s if the government accepts the...
 

Sharks With a Taste For Giant Squid

Researchers announced recently that some giant sharks are partial to snacking on colossal squid, mysterious deep-sea beasts that we know hardly anything about and which are pro...
 

Fish Communicate By Farting

Dr. Doolittle may have been able to talk with the animals, but could he fart with them too ? That's what he may have had to do if he wanted to chat with a herring. Researchers ...

Fact or Fiction

There are 5 times as many kangaroos in Australia as people?
TrueTrue
A compass from earth would still work on Mars
TrueTrue
Camels can go without water for a month, which is why they are so ideal for desert travel.
TrueTrue
All snakes have poisonous venom?
TrueTrue
Birds can fly at 37,000 feet the same height as airliners
TrueTrue
The name for a group of lions is a prowl ?
TrueTrue
The 3 bones in the ear that help you to hear are called the hammer, anvil and saddle
TrueTrue
Venus is the closest planet to the sun?
TrueTrue
Snakes shed their skins about 1000 times in their lifetimes
TrueTrue
The biggest frog in the world over 70 cms long?
TrueTrue


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