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Even More Climate Errors Exposed The United Nations panel on climate change is facing fresh criticism today as The Sunday Telegraph reveals new factual errors and poor sources of evidence in its influential report to government leaders.

Flat Batteries British scientists say they have created a plastic that can store and release electricity, revolutionising the way we use phones, drive cars - and even wear clothes.

Censoring The Internet South Australia has become one of the few states in the world to censor the internet.

Live To Be 100 Scientists are on the brink of developing a 'long-life super-drug' which could spell the end for Alzheimer's and diabetes whilst allowing people to live into their 100s.

More Climate Deceit Exposed The chairman of the leading climate change watchdog was informed that claims about melting Himalayan glaciers were false before the Copenhagen summit.

Steve Jobs introduces Ipad - YouTube video - 16 min

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Harnessing Energy From The Sun Engineers plan to put satellites into orbit around the planet that can gather energy from the sun, concentrate it into powerful laser beams and transmit the energy back to the Earth where it can be used to generate electricity.

World's Smallest Vacuum Cleaner Dyson has launched its smallest vacuum cleaner to date, specifically designed for city dwellers with tiny flats.

Eat Fish Or Die Young Fish oils may hold the key to longer and healthier life, claim researchers.

Another Global Warming Blunder A warning that climate change will melt most of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035 is likely to be retracted after a series of scientific blunders by the United Nations body that issued it.

Detecting Alzheimer's 20 Years In Advance A test that can detect Alzheimer's up to 20 years before any symptoms show is being developed by British scientists.

Y Chromosome Drives Evolution Research has indicated that, far from stagnating, the male chromosome is a hotspot of evolution that is changing more quickly than any other part of humanity’s genetic code.

John Coleman Disputes CO2 Link - John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel, doubts that CO2 is causing global warming, 8 min

Super Lozenge A lozenge created by scientists that costs 20p a day could effectively fight every cold and flu bug including swine flu and bird flu.

Blood Pressure Breakthrough A revolutionary new operation which could effectively cure high blood pressure has been developed by scientists.

Climategate: Tampering With Wikipedia Get that? The guy who has been writing Wikipedia’s entry on Climategate (plus 5,000 others relating to “Climate Change”) is the bosom buddy of the Climategate scientists. James Dellingpole

Bacteria Can Absorb CO2 US researchers have genetically modified bacteria to eat carbon dioxide and produce isobutyraldehyde - a precursor to several useful chemicals, including isobutanol, which has great potential as a fuel alternative to petrol.

Climategate: Who Benefits? Why would a Middle Eastern kingdom be funding a British Climate research business?

An Ice Age Is Coming! Alex Jones talks to astrophysicist Pier Corbyn - 30 min

Climategate: Global Taxation The final Copenhagen draft agreement which was hammered out in the early hours of Friday morning includes provisions for a global tax on financial transactions that will be paid directly to the World Bank, as President Obama prepares to bypass Congress by approving a massive transfer of wealth from America into globalist hands.

Two Cancer Codes Cracked The genetic code of two of the most deadly cancers has been cracked by British scientists in a world first that opens up a whole new era in the treatment for the disease.

Anthrax War An insight into the real dangers currently facing us all from the world-wide development of bio-warfare pathogens. YouTube video - 7 parts - 10 min each part

Google To Limit Free News Access Publishers will be able to set a limit on the number of articles people can read for free through Google using the First Click Free initiative

Cimategate: A Shameful Scandal What we are looking at here is the small group of scientists who have for years been more influential in driving the worldwide alarm over global warming than any others, not least through the role they play at the heart of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Christopher Booker

Dr Tim Ball talks to James Corbett about the scam - YouTube Video - 10 min

Kicking The Habit I've recently discovered a nifty device called the electronic cigarette. I've been smoking for decades and am now tobacco free after only one month of using it.

When Crocodiles Ate Dinosaurs A family of terrifying prehistoric crocodiles - including one with teeth like the tusks of a wild boar and another with a snout like a duck's bill - have been discovered by fossil hunters.

Running Out Of Oil From many different credible and highly placed sources we are today hearing about the dire energy situation that industrialized civilization faces. Charles Cresson Wood

The Mysterious 4,000 Scientists Politicians the world over claim that 4,000 scientists believe in global warming. Depends on who’s counting. Lawrence Solomon

Halogen Ovens Does cooking an entire two-course Sunday roast dinner in a glass bowl plugged into a wall socket sound too weird to be true? If so, think again. Welcome to the world of the halogen table-top oven.

Colossal Sea Monster Fossil Unearthed The fossilised skull of a giant 'sea monster' measuring up to 53ft in length has been discovered on the south coast of England.

Vile-Smelling Ladybirds As winter approaches, households around the UK will be invaded by a sticky and foul-smelling invader.

Window 7 Launches Windows 7's many small changes add up to a much better product – the best version of Windows you can get, in fact. Jack Schofield

Perfect Gravy A teaspoon of dark soy sauce should be added to the more common ingredients of meat juices, flour, iodised salt, pepper and vegetable water.

Copyright Infringement By YouTube? Lawyers working on a $1 billion copyright lawsuit filed by Viacom against Google's YouTube may have uncovered evidence that employees of the video site were among those who uploaded unauthorized content to YouTube. Interesting case.

Micro-Pigs Tiny pigs the size of tea cups are the latest pet craze sweeping across Britain. The must-have micro pigs have become so popular they are almost impossible to get hold of in the UK and sell for up to £700 each.

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Only 4ft Tall And Hairy She lived at the dawn of a new era, when chimps and people began walking (or climbing) along their own evolutionary trails.

Kseniya Simonova - Sand Animation - YouTube Video 9 min

The Myth Of The Smoking Ban Miracle? Restrictions on smoking around the world are claimed to have had a dramatic effect on heart attack rates. It's not true. Christopher Snowdon

Will You Be Immortal?

Will You Be Immortal? "Within 25 years we will be able to do an Olympic sprint for 15 minutes without taking a breath, or go scuba-diving for four hours without oxygen."

New Migraine Drug A new fast-acting drug that is inhaled could tackle migraine pain within 30 minutes.

Cure For Colour Blindness Possible Scientists have cured colour blindness in monkeys in a world first that offers hope for millions.

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Has Bin Laden Been Dead For Seven Years? The author [Professor Griffin] insists that the many Bin Laden tapes made since that date have been concocted by the West to make the world believe Bin Laden is alive. The purpose? To stoke up waning support for the war on terror in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Lazy People Live Longer People who get up early and busy themselves all day long are heading for an early grave.

Ateronon: The Tomato Pill An initial trial in 150 heart disease patients found that taking the pill once a day could not only halt but even reverse the buildup of fatty deposits on artery walls in just two months, without side-effects.

Daily Aspirin Might Be Bad For You Healthy people who take aspirin as an ‘insurance policy’ against heart attacks could be doing more harm than good.

Smart Mug - that keeps tea at the perfect temperature

The Internet Does Not Spread Democracy There’s nothing intrinsically liberalising about the Internet, ... it is easily subverted by political dictatorship. Andrew Keen

Magnetising Cells And Drugs Tiny magnets have been used to guide stem cells to repair injuries in a study that opens a new approach to targeted medicine.

The first study of the technique has shown that it can boost by five times the number of stem cells that reach the injured blood vessels of rats.

Rodent Eating Plant Discovered A giant carnivorous plant that can swallow rodents whole has been discovered by a team of scientists in The Philippines.

Positive Thinking - Good Or Bad? The power of positive thinking is one of the most pervasive myths of our time. It creates totally unrealistic expectations and fosters a culture of entitlement - as if all you need to do to achieve something is to want it.

Grow Some New Teeth Scientists have made teeth from stem cells in a world first that could make dentures a thing of the past.

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.

Sunbeds Are Good For You - 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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