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DARPA plans to end swine flu using Triffid drugs

Possible minor zombification side effect

12 Jul 08:02

Pig flu promises holidays for all

Two weeks off for pig sick lazy swines

10 Jul 14:44

Easter Island dirt may hold key to longer life

Anti-fungal agent gives mice more birthdays

9 Jul 19:56

US docs claim world record musical-kidneys game

Eight-way, four-hospital transcontinental organ swap

9 Jul 14:15

Magno stimulation makes brain learn skills better - boffins

Bonce-bothering breakthrough in British Columbia

7 Jul 13:26

Australia's 'answer to the velociraptor' unveiled

Our dinos are hardest in world, claim Aussies

3 Jul 13:51

Prof: People reject news which conflicts with beliefs

Utter rubbish, according to open-minded observers

2 Jul 09:47

Spanish boffins develop bat-like sonar-vision superpower

Iberian Daredevils 'see' through smoke, bodies, walls

1 Jul 10:57

Chaps: Give up, you'll never understand women

Pointless even to try, indicates new research

29 Jun 11:43

Toyota in 'real time brainwave driver control' success

Handsfree driving only on wheelchairs for now

29 Jun 10:07

Ecopocalypse causes giant fish ears

First Vulcans, then Obama, now les poissons

26 Jun 22:06

Disney punts hetero luuurv to wide-eyed kiddies

Children spared the magic of Snow White and the Seven Gays

24 Jun 12:40

'Overweight' people live longer than those of 'ideal' weight

Pie orgies sadly unlikely to increase lifespan, though

24 Jun 11:37

Dinosaurs actually slimmer than we thought, say boffins

Unfeasibly lardy elephant exposes duff calculations

22 Jun 10:36

Boffins: Gigantic crustacean sperm is 'viable strategy'

Ostracods' jumbo jism is 10x longer than own bodies

19 Jun 14:42

9/11 hero mutt cloned

Ground Zero rescue dog honoured fivefold

18 Jun 11:45

Gay animals going at it like rabbits

Lesbian albatrosses, boy-on-boy bat bugs...

17 Jun 10:31

'Alien' lifeform wakened from 120,000 year Arctic slumber

Meddling boffins refuse to heed sci-fi common sense

15 Jun 09:52

Brits can't tell their heart from their elbow

Grey anatomy

12 Jun 09:29

US brain-plug interface gets live human trials

Telepathic mouse kit could jumpwire paralysed limbs

11 Jun 09:33

Note to employers: Better sex = happier workers

Swede makes case for workplace shag breaks

5 Jun 15:00

'Breathalyser for the hands' fights hospital superbugs

Wireless warning for unwashed plague-laden medics

4 Jun 14:26

Boffins create super flies that need almost no sleep

Still no progress on monkeys able to mix cocktails

3 Jun 10:46

Wiltshire welcomes clutch of Great Bustards

Male parentage of first UK chicks since 1832 in question

3 Jun 10:15

US firm says handheld puke ray is ready to go

Pistol style chunder-gat and torch/vom-sabre models

1 Jun 11:39

Scotland welcomes back wild beaver

Wolves, mammoths, velociraptors watching with interest

29 May 09:53

'Supermodel' glow-in-the-dark pocket monkeys created

Jellyfish-marmoset makes cover of boffins' glossy

28 May 10:21

Scientists: Tasers work, but we don't know how

Humans make the best guinea pigs, after all

25 May 08:02

Tasmanian devil whirling onto endangered list

Dubious accolade hoped to help in face cancer fight

22 May 15:03

Boffins identify inherited 'werewolf' mutation

Several packs discovered after four-year search

22 May 13:37

'Thieving' sperm whale caught on CCTV

Cetacean crime wave hits Alaska

22 May 12:25

DHS to field Star Trek 'Tricorder' medscanner

'They're dead, Jim! DEAD! No, wait... flat battery'

22 May 09:42

Google: Let us keep search data or die

You're all doomed

20 May 13:14

Excess of cola floors Oz ostrich farmer

Soft drinks hard on health, doctors warn

19 May 15:26

250kg Russian drops healthy 2kg sprog

Doctors 'surpised' by heavyweight pregnancy

19 May 11:08

Blighty's black honeybee comes in from the cold

Co-op invests £10,000 in Plan Bee

19 May 10:24

Israeli boffin invents "OkayToKiss™" pocket bad-breath test

Check before you neck

19 May 09:04

Daydreaming? You're actually solving complex problems

At last - a scientific excuse for workplace indolence

14 May 10:53

Lost jungle tribe research: Nice guys can get the girls

Sign of a society about to wipe itself out, though

12 May 11:41

Too much sunshine makes you commit suicide

Hello darkness, my old friend

8 May 10:43

2060: Humvee-sized, bulletproof meat-eating spiders attack

Armoured arctic arachnids, the big-game hunter's dream

7 May 12:11

US game plods deploy robot enforcement menagerie

Actually, some bears don't shit in the woods

6 May 13:48

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