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11.10.2013 15:36
London Fire Brigade revealed some of
the strangest 999 calls in a bid to cut
down on the number of non-emergency
calls they receive.
Other calls included an elderly woman
who asked for help after she threw water
at fighting dogs, forgetting her dentures
were in the glass.
The brigade said it had...
11.10.2013 15:21
In a series of tests, researcher Ann Smet,
of the University of St Andrews, offered
the animals a choice between two
identical buckets, then pointed at the
one containing a hidden treat.
From the first trial, the elephants chose
the correct bucket.
The results are published in the journal
Current...
11.10.2013 15:19
Prof Higgs, who does not own a mobile
phone, said a former neighbour had
pulled up in her car as he was returning
from lunch in Edinburgh.
He added: "She congratulated me on the
news and I said 'oh, what news?'"
The woman had been alerted by her
daughter in London that Prof Higgs had
won the...
11.10.2013 15:17
Carole Waugh, 50, disappeared from her
home in Marylebone, central London, in
May last year and her remains were
found three months later.
The Old Bailey heard that Rakesh
Bhayani, 41, and Nicholas Kutner, 48,
had killed Miss Waugh in order to feed
their gambling habit.
The pair deny murdering...
27.09.2013 21:28
I am often wary of attempts to use
mice as a way of predicting human
responses (whether biological or
psychological), but this time I was
drawn in. "The Real Eternal Sunshine
of the Spotless Mind," squealed the
headline. "Gene discovery paves the
way for a pill to erase your most
painful...
27.09.2013 21:13
The Cambridge University
neuropsychiatrist Dr Valerie Voon
has recently shown that men who
describe themselves as addicted to
porn (and who lost relationships
because of it) develop changes in the
same brain area – the reward centre
– that changes in drug addicts. The
study, not yet published, is...
27.09.2013 21:00
At a matchmaking event he organized
in 1998, Rabbi Yaacov Deyo brought
along a gragger , the noisemaker Jews
use during Purim. That night, in a
Peet’s Coffee & Tea in Beverly Hills, the
Orthodox rabbi twirled his gragger to
signal when it was time for the single
men and women present to...
20.09.2013 16:01
Millions of youngsters are heading back to
school eager to start a new academic
year. Many will thrive but too many will
succumb to the epidemic of boredom
threatening students in schools throughout
our country. Boredom in schools – the
opposite of the behavioral, cognitive and
relational...
20.09.2013 15:48
Animals appear to have infected people
with the deadly new MERS virus several
times, researchers report on Thursday,
but people are also infecting one another.
A deep genetic analysis of virus samples
taken from 21 different patients shows
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia as a kind of ground
zero for the...
20.09.2013 15:45
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) -
Engineers have resolved a minor glitch with a
new NASA robotic lunar probe, which blasted
off Friday night for the first leg of a 30-day
trip to the moon.
Shortly after the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust
Environment Explorer, or LADEE, spacecraft
separated from its...