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Sick pelicans baffle US experts
07/01/2009 17:12
Wildlife experts are trying to figure out why sick, disoriented and bruised California brown pelicans are being found in record numbers along more than 1 600 kilometres of coastline.
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'Pacemaker' helps Parkinson's
07/01/2009 14:04
Parkinson's sufferers who had electrodes implanted in their brains improved substantially more than those who took only medicine.
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Why smokers can't quit
07/01/2009 11:48
Just seeing someone smoke can trigger smokers to abandon their nascent efforts to kick the habit, new research involving brain scans shows.
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2 drugs can fight against fat
07/01/2009 11:49
The hormone leptin, combined with one of two US-approved drugs, may suppress appetite in overweight people, making it a potentially powerful weapon in the fight against obesity.
Wallace and Gromit to fight fat
UK plan to fight obesity
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'Love hormone' helps memory
07/01/2009 08:30
The "love" hormone linked to
feelings of sexual pleasure, bonding and maternal care also
appears to help us recognise familiar faces, Swiss researchers
said.
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Cyber attacks pose the greatest threat to the United States after nuclear war and weapons of mass destruction - and they are increasingly hard to prevent, FBI experts said. 
Climate researchers have shown that big volcanic eruptions over the past 450 years have temporarily cooled weather in the tropics. 
Astronomers may have solved a cosmic chicken-and-egg problem - the question of which formed first in the early Universe - galaxies or the supermassive black holes seen at their cores. 
South Africa's Table Mountain and the Kalahari Desert (shared with Namibia and Botswana) have qualified for the next round of the global New7Wonders of Nature campaign.
Spending a few hours outdoors each day could help children avoid becoming short-sighted, Australian researchers say. 
