Time to cool it1 REFRIGERATORS are the epitome of clunky technology: solid, reliable and just a little bit dull. They have not changed much over the past century, but then they have not needed to. The
Don’t wash those fossils!Standard museum practice can wash away DNA.1. Washing， brushing and varnishing fossils — all standard conservation treatments used by many fossil hunters and museum c
The Guardian1.Consumers are to be presented with two rival new year advertising campaigns as the Food Standards Agency goes public in its battle with the industry over the labelling of unhealthy foods
Published online: Nov 9th 2006From The Economist print editionHow shops can exploit people’s herd mentality to increase sales1.A TRIP to the supermarket may not seem like an exercise in psychologica
Rogue theory of smell gets a boost1.A controversial theory of how we smell, which claims that our fine sense of odour depends on quantum mechanics, has been given the thumbs up by a team of physicists
1. A European spacecraft took off today to spearhead the search for another “Earth“ among the stars.2. The Corot space telescope blasted off aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur cosmodr
Felicity LawrenceThursday December 28, 2006The Guardian1. Consumers are to be presented with two rival new year advertising campaigns as the Food Standards Agency goes public in its battle with the
new weapon to fight cancer1. British scientists are preparing to launch trials of a radical new way to fight cancer, which kills tumours by infecting them with viruses like the common cold.2. If su
new weapon to fight cancer1. British scientists are preparing to launch trials of a radical new way to fight cancer， which kills tumours by infecting them with viruses like the common cold.2. If suc
Selling Digital Music without Copy-protection Makes SenseA.It was uncharacteristically low-key for the industry’s greatest showman. But the essay published this week by Steve Jobs， the boss of App