Gm Cress To Detect Landmines

Scientists in Denmark have produced a genetically modified cress plant that can detect landmines in soil. Carsten Meier and his colleagues from Aresa Biodetection, the company they have set up to develop the GM strain of Arabidopsis or Thale cress, have genetically mo...

Exploding Sperm Whale

This week a giant sperm whale exploded in the streets of Taiwan. Apparently the 60 tonne whale, which had died after becoming stranded on a beach, was on it's way to a museum when it violently exploded, covering passers by in whale shrapnel. Nasty! Marine biologists t...

Why Do Our Fingers Wrinkle in The Bath

Our skin is like a suit of armour which keeps germs and dirt out, and our body fluids in. But it’s not completely waterproof. The top layers of our skin are made of dried out, flattened dead cells and if you make the skin wet for any length of time, some of the ...

Fertility Wristwatch

Knowing when the time is right to try for a baby could soon be as easy as checking the hour of the day. A technology firm has created a wristwatch which can tell when women are about to ovulate and are most likely to get pregnant. The PSC Fertility Monitor works by me...

What Is Bird Flu, Is it The Same As Normal Human Flu?

Most people assume that flu is a human virus but it originally came from birds, and the strains of the virus that cause disease in people are slightly different to the strains that cause disease in birds. But occasionally the virus changes, or mutates, and gains the a...

The Ultimate Flutter

Fancy laying a bet on a 6000 mile race? And we’re not talking about horses or people or even cars, this race is being flown by a group of migrating albatrosses; (those massive sea birds that don’t come in strawberry flavour according to Monty Python). Book...