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It's National No Smoking day on Wednesday so now's your chance to give up for good. But you might be more successful armed with a few facts to help you. - 75% of smokers say they want to stop, but 10 years later 65% of them will still be smoking.- Your chance of remaining ...
It is fairly easy to understand why airborne pollution might be bad for your lungs and contribute to allergic conditions such as asthma, but it is more difficult to explain why, on days when pollution levels are very high, other illnesses, including fatal heart attacks, ar...
It turns out that high levels of toxic chemicals in seawater are causing cancers the develop in Whales. (that's the animal, not the country !) About 2% of marine mammals, including whales, die from intestinal cancers, but scientists studying a population of Beluga Whales l...
A few years ago scientists were very excited when they unexpectedly discovered new nerve cells being born in the brains of adult people and animals, because up until then, most people believed that new nerve cells were produced only in embryos and very young babies. But, a...
Last year the cold killed hundreds of people in refugee camps in Afghanistan - but a Cambridge scientist is hoping to change this. Next week Joseph Ashmore will travel to Afghanistan to test out a new kind of tent lining which he has developed along with a team of engineer...
A new playstation sensation has been announced this week called Rez. This new offering has been developed by the Japanese company United Game Artists and promises to "overload your senses with a mix of psychedelic visuals and pulsating dance beats". The inventors...
Do you worry about having clammy handshake and seeming really nervous in interviews because of sweaty palms? Scientists at UCLA, the University of California, have found that this embarrassing affliction is not a sign of nervousness, but is instead a more widespread proble...
NASA MARS EXPLORATION PROJECT FINDS LOTS OF WATERThis week scientists from NASA's Mars Exploration Programme have been publishing some extraordinary results produced by the Odyssey spacecraft, which reached Mars late last October. Odyssey began activating its scientific in...
Scientists are getting better and better at mind reading. Armed with a brain scanner they can find out just what is going on in your grey matter. And they are discovering the answers to all sorts of burning questions. Here are just a few:Why can't you tickle yourself?Appar...
