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Spider in bed prompts 999 call to London firefighters

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...

Elephants 'understand human gesture'

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...

Prof Peter Higgs did not know he had won Nobel Prize

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...

Carole Waugh death: Men 'killed woman to steal assets'

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...

Trauma can be treated, but not erased

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...

Brain scans of porn addicts: what's wrong with this picture?

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...

Who Made Speed Dating?

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...

3 Ways to Combat Boredom and Close the Global Education Gap

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...

Animals repeatedly infected people with MERS, study suggests

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...

Glitch resolved, NASA probe on its way to the moon

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...
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