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Global-Wide Ant Colony Argentine ants from three huge colonies in Europe, America and Japan are actually part of one global super-colony.

Polar Bears Are Doing Well Dr Michael Taylor agrees that the Arctic has been warming over the last 30 years. But he ascribes this not to rising levels of CO2 ... but to currents bringing warm water into the Arctic from the Pacific

More than once since 2006 he has made headlines by insisting that polar bear numbers, far from decreasing, are much higher than they were 30 years ago.

Baldness Calculator A pioneering new computer program that predicts if and when men will go bald is being offered to British men.

UltraSound For Prostate Cancer The power of sound is being used to obliterate prostate cancer - without causing the serious side effects that dog other treatments.


Electronic Cigarettes - 5 min

If you or any of your loved ones have had difficulty in giving up smoking, then please take a good look at electronic cigarettes; because they are a much safer alternative - and they seem to be very effective in helping smokers to quit.


2000 Films On One DVD? A DVD that can store up to 2,000 films could usher in an age of three-dimensional TV and ultra-high definition viewing, scientists say.

Benefits Of Probiotics New research shows that not only are probiotics useful, but they could even act as effective medicines - and help you control your weight.

Statins Reduce Prostate Risk The research, which followed a group of middle-aged men for 15 years, found that they were less likely to develop the disease, which can be deadly, if they were taking statins.

Meltdown 2012 The catastrophe, when it comes, will be beautiful at first. It is a balmy evening in late September 2012. Ever since the sun set, the dimming skies over London have been alive with fire.

Extreme Skydiving Wingsuit jumping is the leading edge of extreme sports -- an exhilarating feat of almost unbelievable daring, where skydivers soar through canyons at over 100MPH. Ueli Gegenschatz talks about how (and why) he does it, and shows jawdropping film. 12 min

Chocolate Boosts Mental Abilities Mental arithmetic became easier after volunteers had been given large amounts of compounds found in chocolate, called flavanols, in a hot cocoa drink.  

Statins Stole My Memory Statins have been hailed as a miracle cure for cholesterol, but little is known about their side effects.

Half Glass Of Wine Increases Cancer Risk The equivalent of half a standard 175ml of ordinary strength wine per day increases the risk of colon cancer by nine per cent and the risk of mouth or throat cancer by 168 per cent.

Loneliness Is As Bad As Smoking Being lonely is as bad for your health as smoking or obesity, experts have warned.

Riding Horses As Dangerous As Ecstasy Taking ecstasy is no worse for your health than riding a horse, according to the Government's top drug advisor.

New Impotence Pill The makers of Cialis say it is superior to its predecessor Viagra because the effects last much longer – up to 36 hours compared to Viagra’s four.

Super Light Bulbs Cambridge University researchers have developed cheap, light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs that produce brilliant light but use very little electricity. They will cost £2 and last up to 60 years.

Stem Cells For MS A group of patients suffering from the early stages of multiple sclerosis have shown significant improvements in their condition after being injected with stem cells, scientists say.


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Sunbeds Are Good For You - so says a cancer expert.


Marijuana Could Help With Memory Loss Marijuana could help reduce memory loss in old age.

World's First Stem Cell Organ Transplant Surgeons replaced the damaged windpipe of Claudia Castillo, a 30-year-old mother of two, with one created from stem cells grown in a laboratory at Bristol University.

New Statin For Everyone A new statin drug dramatically cuts the number of heart attacks and strokes, even for people without high cholesterol. In a major trial, daily treatment with Crestor slashed the rate of heart problems and deaths by 44 per cent.

Statins Can Prevent Arteries Ageing Statins 'can prevent arteries ageing prematurely'

Coincidence And Probability - How strange coincidences are not so strange when you look at probabilities. YouTube video - 9 min

Super Lenses For Short And Long Sight Bionic implants that promise to give 45-year-olds the vision of someone 20 years younger could be available in just five years.


Large Hadron Collider Explained - 6 min


Copper Pillow Reduces Wrinkles A new pillow can wipe out wrinkles.

Rheumatoid Arthritis Cure A single injection that could cure rheumatoid arthritis is being developed by British scientists.

Astonishing Couch Potato Pill A pill that makes the body fit without the need for exercise has been hailed by scientists following astonishing test results.

New Alzheimer’s Drug A new drug halts the devastating progress of Alzheimer’s disease, say British scientists.

New Prostate Cancer Drug Thousands of men with aggressive and incurable prostate cancer could gain years of life with a ground-breaking new drug, British researchers say.

The Great Biofuel Con? Rarely in political history can there have been such a rapid and dramatic reversal of a received wisdom as we have seen in the past 18 months over biofuels – the cropping of living plants, such as soya beans, wheat and sugar cane, to generate energy. 5 min

Heart Attack Treated With Stem Cells Two heart attack victims have become the first patients in Britain to be treated with their own stem cells.

Racetrack Memory Unveiled The prospect of iPods that can hold millions of songs and PCs being able to turn on instantly, rather than taking minutes to "boot up", comes much closer today.

Aerobic Exercise Slows Ageing Taking regular aerobic exercise could stop the biological clock and delay ageing by up to 12 years, claim researchers.

Eggs Bad For Men Eating an egg a day increases the risk of premature death for middle-aged men, warn researchers.

Charter For Compassion As she accepts her 2008 TED Prize, author and scholar Karen Armstrong talks about how the Abrahamic religions -- Islam, Judaism, Christianity -- have been diverted from the moral purpose they share to foster compassion. Karen Armstrong - 21 min

Brains Scan Lie Detectors In Use? A brain imaging technique called fMRI may be being used as a "lie detector" by US intelligence agencies, despite concerns over unreliability and the possibility of abuse, a leading academic has claimed.

Do Boomerangs Work In Outer Space? An astronaut has added to the font of human knowledge by demonstrating that boomerangs return without the aid of gravity.

Robot Swarms Being Developed A £4.6 million project to create swarms of hundreds of autonomous, Transformer-style robots has been launched.


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Life-Saving Blood Pressure Injections Tens of thousands of lives could be saved each year thanks to a new injection to control high blood pressure.

Bonus Effect Of Statins Drugs taken by more than two million patients to treat cholesterol are having a bonus effect.

Beetroot Juice Lowers Blood Pressure A daily glass of beetroot juice can help to beat high blood pressure 

Healthy People Cost More Healthy people cost taxpayers more in medical bills over their lifetimes than smokers or the obese, a new study has found

Vitamin E Important For Mobility A diet rich in olive oil, nuts and green leafy vegetables could help to slow physical decline in the elderly, scientists say.

Energy-Saving Bulbs Trigger Migraines? The energy-saving light bulbs that will be made compulsory in homes in a few years can trigger migraines,

Pottering Around Is Good Enough! Simply pottering around the house could help keep you fit.

Sunlight Reduces Lung Cancer Risk A study has found that, after smoking, restricted access to ultraviolet light from the sun is one of the most important causes of the disease.

Fluffy Dark Stars The cosmos could be littered with "dark stars" that are 100,000 times wider than our own Sun, much fluffier and only spit out invisible gamma rays, heat and antimatter.

E8 Theory Of Everything An impoverished surfer has drawn up a new theory of the universe, seen by some as the Holy Grail of physics, which has received rave reviews from scientists.

Cooked Food A Danger To Women Fresh fears have been raised over the safety of cooked foods as a wide-ranging study found for the first time that a common chemical caused by frying, roasting or grilling can double the risk of cancer in women.

Skin Ageing Reversed In Mice Scientists have reversed the effects of ageing on the skin of mice by blocking the action of a specific protein.

Sunbathing Is Very Good For You Sunbathing can slow the ageing process by up to five years, according to new research. Scientists have found that people who avoid the sun, or have inadequate vitamin D in their diet, are subject to genetic damage associated with ageing and age-related illnesses.

Mighty Mouse Created Scientists have created a "mighty mouse" that is capable of trotting along at three quarters of a mile per hour (20 metres per minute) for three miles at a time, and that appears healthier, trimmer and longer lived than its peers.

Avoid Paracetamol Combined With Coffee Consumers have been warned that drinking coffee while taking paracetamol could increase their risk of liver damage.

Genetic Test For Prostate Cancer The test, the first of its kind, measures the activity of a gene closely linked to the cancer. Doctors hope that it will make diagnosis of the disease more accurate and reduce the number of biopsies.

Super Cancer Killers US researchers have been given the go-ahead to give patients transfusions of “super strength” cancer-killing cells from donors.

Ezetimibe Instead Of Statins? Ezetimibe can be taken by those who cannot tolerate statins - the most commonly prescribed drugs - or in combination with them.

Vitamin D Important A simple course of vitamin D could help you live longer, say researchers.

Scientists Plea To Use New Hybrid Embryos Britain's leading scientists have made a final plea for the right to create the first animal-human embryos for medical research using eggs taken from dead cows.

Statins Might Ease Risk Of Dementia Taking cheap drugs designed to lower cholesterol could reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer's by 80 per cent

Huge Cosmic Gap Astronomers have found an enormous void in space that measures nearly a billion light-years across.

Aerogel: The Miracle Insulator A miracle material for the 21st century could protect your home against bomb blasts, mop up oil spillages and even help man to fly to Mars.

Intelligent Clouds Extraterrestrials could consist of living, breeding, floating clouds of interstellar dust.

NASA Blunder On Climate Temperature Thanks to blogger Stephen McIntyre's calculations, climatologists at NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Science (GISS) in New York now concede that 1934 was the hottest year in U.S. history, and not 1998 as it previously reported.

Levitation Possible Levitation has been elevated from being pure science fiction to science fact, according to a study reported today by physicists.

Dawkins Lambasts New Age Therapists Prof Dawkins says that alternative remedies constitute little more than a "money-spinning, multi-million pound industry that impoverishes our culture and throws up new age gurus who exhort us to run away from reality".

DCA - A Possible Cancer Cure? YouTube Video - 6 min

+ Two agents from the FDA visited us on Tuesday,July 17, 2007 and ordered that we stop making and selling DCA.

+ Dr Michelakis opposes any self-medication with DCA, and the websites that facilitate it. Though he says he can understand why people with cancer are motivated to take DCA, he points out that not only are they placing themselves in danger, they may also be jeopardising the chances of finding out whether DCA actually works in treating cancer and of it becoming approved as a therapy.

Men Over 50 Should Take Statins Men over 50 should be prescribed cholesterol-busting drugs, the UK Government’s heart and stroke tsar has recommended.

Moles On Skin A Good Sign? Scientists claim that those with lots of moles are years younger biologically than those with mark-free skin.

Cyber Attacks From Foreign Agencies The BBC has learned that Britain, along with other western countries, has been under daily "cyber attack" from foreign intelligence agencies trying to steal secrets through the internet.

Mice Stem Cell breakthrough A crucial advance in stem cell research, reported today by British scientists, will shave years off efforts to turn the cells into treatments for a vast range of ailments such as diabetes and cystic fibrosis, without the need to use human embryos.

Lifelong Immunity From Influenza Possible British scientists are developing a vaccine to give lifelong protection against all strains of flu.

New Operation To Restore Sight A revolutionary technique being developed by British scientists could cure blindness in millions of people around the world

Cold Star It is the coldest solitary brown dwarf ever seen.

New Injections For Heart Problems A simple jab could help treat heart disease in millions of people and reduce the need for pain relief, scientists claim.

Gene Therapy For Baldness Skin cells have been primed to regrow hair follicles for the first time, leading scientists to claim a breakthrough in the quest for a cure for baldness.

Fireballs Wiped Out America's Stone Age Hunters Scientists will outline dramatic evidence this week that suggests a comet exploded over the Earth nearly 13,000 years ago, creating a hail of fireballs that set fire to most of the northern hemisphere.

Hubble Spots Ring Of Dark Matter Astronomers have found one of the best pieces of evidence for the existence of dark matter, a mysterious quantity that pervades our Universe.

Eco-Therapy A charity is calling for country walks to become a recognised treatment for those with mental health problems. It says such walks can help reduce depression and raise self-esteem, and wants 'ecotherapy' to become widely available.

Blu-Ray's Secret Key The Digital Millennium Copyright Act is one of the most pernicious statutes ever passed. It casts a chilling shadow over the entire digital world. Accordingly, most of the websites that received the 'takedown' letter complied with it. John Naughton

Gladiators Graveyard Discovered Scientists believe they have for the first time identified an ancient graveyard for Roman gladiators.

Painkillers Can Make Headaches Worse Taking too many headache tablets can made headaches worse, doctors have warned.

Revolutionary Pill For Many Genetic Diseases A pill that can correct a wide range of faulty genes which cause crippling illnesses should be available within three years, promising a revolution in the treatment of thousands of conditions.

Intelligence-Enhancing Chemicals It sounds like the stuff of science fiction: a new generation of chemicals that make people more intelligent.

The Wonders Of Aspirin A regular dose of aspirin could keep cancer at bay and boosts survival rates for those who contract the disease, new research has revealed.

Five New Species Of Troglobite Unearthed A £5bn mining project in Western Australia has been blocked by government officials after the discovery of tiny, blind spider-like creatures at the site.

Anti-Wrinkle Cream That Works Sales of a £17 Boots brand anti-ageing cream have soared by 2000 per cent following an independent study showing it reduces wrinkles.

Connection Found Between Schizophrenia And Complex Thinking Scientists have discovered that a common version of a particular gene appears both to enhance a key thinking circuit in the brain, and to be linked to a raised risk of schizophrenia.

Intelligent Children Like Rock Music Intelligent teenagers often listen to heavy metal music to cope with the pressures associated with being talented.

Joost TV Online From big-budget dramas to niche documentaries, the people behind Joost say they will provide a huge array of TV programmes straight to your computer,


The Future Of Collaboration In this off-the-cuff talk, Charles Leadbeater weaves a tight argument that innovation isn't just for professionals anymore. From open-source software to mountain biking to astronomy, passionate non-professionals are harnassing digital technologies to collaborate, innovate and re-make entire industries. 20 min


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The Darkest Galaxies The mystery of how the darkest galaxies in the Universe came to exist may have been solved by scientists.

New Teraflop Chip A chip with 80 processing cores and capable of more than a trillion calculations per second (teraflops) has been unveiled by Intel.

Nano-Chips Developed The next milestone in the relentless pursuit of smaller, higher performance microchips has been unveiled.

Cheap Effective Cancer Cure? It sounds almost too good to be true: a cheap and simple drug that kills almost all cancers by switching off their “immortality”. The drug, dichloroacetate (DCA), has already been used for years to treat rare metabolic disorders and so is known to be relatively safe.


Asimo at CES Las Vegas - 5 min


Hybrid Cells Defended Scientists will be allowed to make a case for the creation of human-animal embryos to seek treatments for nervous system disorders.

Flesh-Eating Bug A leading economist suffered an agonising death when a horrific flesh-eating bug took over his body in just 24 hours.

Spicy Foods Beneficial Scientists have discovered the key to the ability of spicy foods to kill cancer cells.

Milk Blocks Tea Benefits Adding milk to a cup of tea can destroy its ability to protect against heart disease.

Olive Oil 'Can Cut Cancer Risk' Adding plenty of olive oil to a diet could help protect against cell damage that can lead to cancer.

Cow Pat Power The humble cow pat could become the latest weapon in the fight against global warming.

Scientists Protest At Political Interference Some 10,000 US researchers have signed a statement protesting about political interference in the scientific process.

Left-Handers Think More Quickly Left-handed people can think quicker when carrying out tasks such as playing computer games or playing sport.

Ebola Virus Perhaps Killed 5,000 Gorillas More than 5,000 gorillas may have died in recent outbreaks of the Ebola virus in central Africa.

Aspirin Good For Prostate Aspirin and other similar painkillers may halve the risk of developing an enlarged prostate. 

Stem Cells For Back Pain A radical new treatment could bring relief to millions of back pain sufferers.

Huge Fish Fossil Found What Tom and Sharon had found was the skull of a fish that lived more than 100 million years ago, swimming in the southern ocean when Australia was effectively a Polar continent.

Grow Your Own Cartilage A woman with a damaged knee has become the first Briton to have a revolutionary 'grow your own' cartilage transplant

Humans Show Major DNA Differences Scientists have shown that our genetic code varies between individuals far more than was previously thought.

Male Chimpanzees Like Older Women To a young male chimp there is nothing so attractive as wrinkles, sagging skin and bald patches in a female who is old enough to be his great-great-grandmother.

Chest Pains? Don't Delay The British stiff upper lip is costing thousands their lives by deterring them from seeking help when they are having a heart attack. 

DNA Computers The first man-made DNA computers have already proved themselves in action. And while limited in the questions they can tackle so far, the machines have sparked enormous excitement in the scientific world.

Statins Should Be Prescribed For Millions Millions more adults should be prescribed statins by their doctors to lower their risk of heart attacks, say Oxford University experts.

Cancer Vaccines Effective Mice vaccinated with stem cells have proved to be resistant to lung cancer.

No More Fish There will be virtually nothing left to fish from the seas by the middle of the century if current trends continue, according to a major scientific study.

Crushing Pills Before Swallowing Might Be Dangerous Crushing pills to make them easier to swallow can cause serious side-effects that can sometimes be fatal, experts have warned.

Tooth-Whitening Dangers The teeth-whitening kits used by thousands of Britons who want polished molars can cause permanent damage,

Do Not Make Your Bed! Failing to make your bed in the morning may actually help keep you healthy, scientists believe.

Facial Expressions Inherited Not Learned It is not just our features that we inherit from our parents - but also their facial expressions.

Wonderful Walnuts Eating walnuts at the end of a meal may help cut the damage that fatty food can do to the arteries.

Baldness Therapy Approved Intercytex has successfully tested a method of removing hair follicles from the back of the neck, multiplying them and then reimplanting the cells.

Black Tea Reduces Stress A team at University College London found black tea helps to cut levels of the stress hormone cortisol circulating in the blood.

Parrots Understand Maths Alex, the most accomplished of her birds, is able to name seven colours and five shapes and count or add up to six. He can identify, request and refuse about 100 different objects and uses phrases such as “come here” and “wanna go”. 

Ants Can Count Their Steps Desert ants use an internal "pedometer" to measure exact marching distances.

Cannabis and Cancer While the investigators’ failure to demonstrate a positive association between cannabis use and cancer may seem surprising to some, the bottom line is that scientists overseas have been studying pot’s potential anti-cancer properties for nearly a decade. Paul Armentano

Bio Rocks? Odd-shaped rocks in the Pilbara region of Western Australia offer compelling evidence they were built by microbes 3.43 billion years ago

Human Resilience Recent research suggests that rather than being the fragile flowers that psychologists have made us out to be, most people are resilient. Daniel Gilbert

New Cosmic Vision The Swift telescope is about to break the boundaries of our cosmic vision, to see the most distant objects ever recorded.

Judas Was Not A Bad Man For 2,000 years, his name has been synonymous with treachery and deceit, but Judas may finally have received some divine justice.

Grisly Skulls The grisly discovery of 121 human skulls, many with their tops sawn off, has puzzled Chinese police and caused a frenzy of speculation.

Bladders Grown In Laboratory Actually Work Entire human internal organs grown in the laboratory have been successfully transplanted into patients for the first time, paving the way for a new era of “spare part” medicine.

Neutrinos Have Mass Physicists have confirmed that neutrinos, which are thought to have played a key role during the creation of the Universe, have mass.

New Phobia Treatment Arachnophobes around the world can rejoice - the answer to their darkest fears could be a simple injection away after scientists found that a dose of the body's natural stress hormone, cortisol, can help phobics deal better with fear of spiders.

Fish Oil No Good? Fish Oil may not quite be the elixir of life that we have been led to believe.

 Fuel Cells For Laptops Soon you could be running your laptop computer all day without a recharge as commercial versions of fuel cells go on sale.

Death Penalty For Bag Snatching Bag snatchers are to face the death penalty after judges in a southern Chinese city responded to growing middle-class concerns over petty crime with draconian new sentencing rules.

Huge Energy Breakthrough? In a scientific breakthrough that has stunned the world, a team of South African scientists has developed a revolutionary new, highly efficient solar power technology that will enable homes to obtain all their electricity from the sun.

Most Enormous Spinosaurus A giant dinosaur with crocodile-like jaws has elbowed the comparatively puny Tyrannosaurus rex into third place to claim the title of biggest predator ever on Earth.

Lawless China The deputy editor of a Chinese newspaper died of liver and kidney failure after he was severely beaten by police enraged by reports in his newspaper about their work.

Overkill In Policing "Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book!" Radley Balko

Lazy Teachers? A Berlin mother of four has provoked howls of protest from Germany's educational establishment with a book that depicts the nation's teachers as lazy, ideologically driven incompetents who blame parents when they fail to do their job.

Britons Unconvinced On Evolution Just under half of Britons accept the theory of evolution as the best description for the development of life, according to an opinion poll.

Alcohol vs Marijuana Alcohol's long-standing association with aggressive behavior, whether it's among raucous sports fans or late-night bar patrons, is well-publicized and much debated. Yet, a relevant fact that is often overlooked in this public discourse is that an alternative, almost equally consumed intoxicant, is rarely, if ever, linked with violence – marijuana. However, unlike alcohol, marijuana is illegal and not only at Giants Stadium. Paul Armentano

Staying Happy Psychologists know that increasing the number of social contacts a miserable person has is the best way of cheering them up.

Reversing Hair Loss Scientists believe manipulating genes within hair cells can reverse baldness.

Coffee Better Than Fruit Coffee is likely to contribute far more antioxidants to the British diet than fruit and vegetables.

Lab Grown Meat "With a single cell, you could theoretically produce the world's annual meat supply. And you could do it in a way that's better for the environment and human health.

Genes Influence Academic Skills A new study suggests that both maths and reading ability lies largely in the genes.

First Americans Discovered Human settlers made it to the Americas 30,000 years earlier than previously thought.

Rejuvenating Stem Cells Scientists have shown that stem cells can bring renewed youthful vigor to aged cows, and they hope the same will be true in humans. Stem cells were injected into elderly cows -- animals whose age was equivalent to an 80-year-old human. Tests showed boosted immune systems and rejuvenated blood vessels more than a year after an injection of a tablespoonful of stem cells taken from cloned bovine fetuses.

Nuclear Bomb In Suitcase? It doesn't take much fissile material to make a bomb--on the order of 10 kilograms of plutonium, a roughly grapefruit-sized sphere. You'll also want a "shaped charge" of conventional explosives to compress the plutonium to critical mass, plus a few other precisely engineered but not especially bulky items. Cecil Adams

Oceans Becoming Acidic The oceans are gradually turning into a vast “fizzy drink”, a transformation that could be catastrophic for ocean life.

Downloading Your Consciousness By the middle of the 21st century it will be possible to download your brain to a supercomputer, according to a leading thinker on the future.

The Moon Illusion Why does the moon look so big now?

Conscience And Medicine A pharmacist who views hormonal contraception as a form of abortion refused not only to fill a prescription for birth-control pills but also to return the prescription or transfer it to another pharmacy. ... Under Wisconsin's proposed law, such behavior by a pharmacist would be entirely legal and acceptable. And this trend is not limited to pharmacists and physicians; in Illinois, an emergency medical technician refused to take a woman to an abortion clinic, claiming that her own Christian beliefs prevented her from transporting the patient for an elective abortion. Alta Charo - 4 min

Amorphous Metals Futuristic alloys called amorphous metals could someday combine the strength and electrical conductivity of ordinary metals with the versatility and low cost of plastic.  

Workers Being Robotised? 'Battery Farm' workplaces are springing up in warehouses and distribution centres with employees made to wear electronic wrist tags to monitor and direct their actions.

Weaponisation Of Space "Orbiting 'death stars' to attack ground targets are being considered. Pete Teets, the former acting secretary of the U.S. Air Force has said: 'We haven't reached the point of strafing and bombing from space – nonetheless, we are thinking about those possibilities.'" Tom Engelhardt and Jonathan Schell - 9 min

Truffles It smells like a rotten egg, grows only in the wild, and costs a small fortune. It can inspire poetry, romance, and crime. Dogs have been kidnapped—and ransoms paid—because of it. Sean Markey

Robots In 2020 A futuristic world, complete with autonomous household companions, android medics and even robot entertainers, will greet visitors to the Prototype Robot Exhibition from 9 June, 2005. Will Knight

I wonder if they will ever produce a robotic wife.

Something that you can switch on and off depending on your mood.

Google To Assess News Credibility Credibility is hard to quantify, but not impossible. The Google formula will assess and monitor news sources according to a number of variables: length of story, number of bylines, how long the source has been in business, volume of internet traffic to the site, variety of countries accessing the site, size of staff and so on. The Google database will take all these parameters, and apply a formula that distils them down to a single value. In theory, this will produce a pyramid of information with the most believable at the apex.

New Memory Pill It belongs to a family of compounds called ampakines and works by boosting the brain chemical glutamate that makes learning and recall easy.

Waking Up From A Long-Term Coma What's it like waking up after 10 years "asleep"? After a New York fireman who barely said a word for a decade began talking profusely, what are the experiences of people who wake up from comas and vegetative states after long periods?

Food And Behaviour New research establishes a link between nutrition and the management of many behaviour and learning disorders. Felicity Lawrence 

Stress Keeps You Young? For decades doctors have warned us to cut down our stress. Now experts on ageing say seeking out stress may actually help you stay young, beautiful and healthy.

Acupuncture Does Work Scientists say they have proof that acupuncture works in its own right.

What Is Internet 2 ? Think of Internet 2 as a higher-tech version of the regular Internet.

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