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 Woman diagnosed with fear of vegetables
Posted on Tuesday, 10 November, 2009| 7:05 | Comments: 17
A 22-year-old student from Portsmouth suffers from a rare phobia which renders her terrified of vegetables. The condition known as lachanophobia affects only a few thousand people in Britain....
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 Villagers worship rare turtle as God
Posted on Tuesday, 10 November, 2009| 7:01 | Comments: 8
Hundreds of Hindu villagers in eastern India have been ordered to hand over a rare turtle to officials but have refused to do so on the grounds that they believe the turtle to be the incarnation of Hindu deity Lord Jagannath....
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 Iraq swears by "dowsing" bomb detectors
Posted on Monday, 9 November, 2009| 6:24 | Comments: 6
The security forces in Iraq use a device to detect bombs and weapons that the US military believes to be useless, the ADE 651 device uses a telescopic metal rod to detect explosives in much the same way as dowsing for water....
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 Music improves brain function
Posted on Monday, 9 November, 2009| 6:07 | Comments: 1
New research has revealed that learning to play a musical instrument can help improve brain function, not only in the area of musical training but also in general thinking and cognition....
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 NASA probe reveals Mercury's secrets
Posted on Monday, 9 November, 2009| 6:05 | Comments: 0
NASA's Messenger spacecraft has returned data revealing several things previously unknown about the nearest planet to the sun, including an abundance of minerals and evidence of extensive volcanic activity....
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 Should I call him a ghost ?
Posted on Sunday, 8 November, 2009| 5:37 | Comments: 4
Lura Ketchledge: There are more questions than answers in my true story. Before this experience I did not question if there were demons. To put it bluntly I thought demons were made up fictional creatures like the boogy man. My experiences with ghosts for the last twenty five years have been positive and comforting. The few times I have been truly frightened by a ghost I later realized my fear was a misinterpretation of the situation, not a threat.
Twenty five years ago back when I was a ‘babe’ it wasn’t unusual for me to draw attention from the opposite s...
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 Darwin theory to help find alien life
Posted on Sunday, 8 November, 2009| 5:35 | Comments: 4
Darwin's theory of evolution could prove vital in the search for alien life. NASA astrobiologists are using evolution as a basis in the search for planets on which the conditions could be suitable for the development of life....
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 Bizarre plant root resembles boy
Posted on Sunday, 8 November, 2009| 5:31 | Comments: 14
Scientists are attempting to understand the process that created a bizarre 12 lb root that was dug out of the ground by a farmer in China and which uncannily resembles the form of a human boy down to the smallest detail....
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 Piece of historic spacecraft up for grabs
Posted on Sunday, 8 November, 2009| 5:29 | Comments: 1
A piece of Apollo 11 is expected to fetch a high price at auction, the scrap of Kapton Foil would have helped protect the command module as it re-entered Earth's atmosphere on the return journey from the moon....
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Science and Technology |
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 Large Hadron Collider broken by bread
Posted on Saturday, 7 November, 2009| 7:48 | Comments:
In a bizarre turn of events the Large Hadron Collider has suffered from overheating when a passing bird dropped a piece of baguette on to the equipment and stopped the superconducting magnets from functioning....
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