Unexpected results regarding accents have been issued recently by Northumbria University. The University's Social Linguistic department asked a selection of Japanese people to listen to various accents and grade them according to a number of perso...
A National Literary Trust survey of 17,000 children in the U.K. has revealed that kids who use their local library are likely to be above average readers. Even more surprising was the news that children with a sub standard reading ability for their age were twice as likely not to go to a library. In the wake of this controversial conclusion, the Centre For Stating The Bleeding Obvious has co...
Rising life expectancies and improved health means the population is ageing much more slowly than at the end of last century. The US and Austrian study in the well respected Science magazine makes a number of amazing discoveries. The study also...
The eyes of cattle may reveal signs of neurological disorders such as mad cow disease, say scientists. Researchers, led from Iowa State University, US, examined the retinas of sheep infected with scrapie - a disease similar to BSE, or mad cow dise...
Those scientist guys Ferrante and Telcher were famous for a brief moment when they created energy from nothing and called it Cold Fusion. The world was amazed and anxious for the near future when energy was free. Other scientists however were...
Countless studies have shown that people with Autism are brought up in exactly the same way as children without autism, leading scientists to conclude that it is the studies that are causing autism in children. "These studies should stop at once,"...
Online encyclopedia Wikipedia is celebrating being ten years old. Wikipedia is the online reference source that is written on a collaborative basis by ten year old volunteers and is free to use. It can be edited by anyone who is ten years old.
Cambridge, MA - Researchers at Harvard have published the results of an extensive ten year, one hundred million dollar study. The findings confirm long held beliefs. Turns out people with no arms cannot give a decent high five. Researchers stu...
Following in the flipper steps of his famous father Pierre-Yves Cousteau met with marine science students at the Andres Bello University this week along with representatives of the Chilean communications agency Alkance Comunicaciones to speak about C...
Geneva, Switzerland - JoJo, a rescued research monkey and former casual labor employee of Sexxxy Sadie's Topless Dance Club in Baltimore, was recently hired as a Junior Physicist to head up one of the operational systems at the Hadron Collider near G...
CAMBRIDGE, MA - Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a camera that can see directly into your soul. The camera, developed by a team of twelve students, can see into your deepest desires, your wants, and can help u...
GLASGOW, SCOT. & WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, UK scientists conducted a stem cell trial. However, the Bible Belt aren't happy. Scientists are looking to discover the success rates of stem cells in patients, and today they, without too much contro...
New Research from the Bread School of Bredbury has shown that people prefer sandwiches with a filling, rather than plain bread. More controversially, it doesn't matter what the filling is, from Corned Beef and Piccalilli to Egg Mayonnaise or Prawn...
Zurich, Switzerland. In absolutely mind blowing, astonishing news, the Large Hedron Collider has once and for all time confirmed that UK personality "Ozzie" Osbourne does not have anything resembling a brain between his ears. The elite team of sci...
An email survey has concluded that chain emails DO work. A survey of 75,358,502 recipients of one particular chain email has shown that the 'forwarders' of the email all received amazing stuff. The email involved in the study promises readers 25 y...
The old saying that 'horses sweat, men perspire and women glow' is true, according to a Japanese study. "It appears that women are at a disadvantage when they need to sweat during exercise," said research co-ordnator Yoshimitsu Inoue, in the journ...
Drinking does not raise the risk of developmental problems for babies, a study has suggested. A study of more than 11,000 babies under two years old, published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health found no evidence of harm. The s...
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