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Uni seeks 'research officer' for sex trade 'fieldwork'

Experience of lapdancing and vice girls? Apply here

27 Nov 10:19

Replace Bulldog gridiron mascot with robot, PETA demands

Symbol of sturdy Britishness mustn't be bred any more

26 Nov 14:35

'Whales can't even hear naval sonar' says Navy boffin

Enormous CT scanner used to probe spermwhale's noggin

25 Nov 13:54

Feral dromedaries besiege Oz Outback town

'Some people open their windows and all they see is camels'

25 Nov 09:50

Billionaire floats eco dream on sailing soda bottles

Plastiki and the 100% recyclable yacht

25 Nov 07:02

New 'reversible' paralysis-ray turns victims blue, flaccid

'Many test subjects survived', claim inventors

19 Nov 12:25

Gene testing firm goes titsup

DNA disease spotting ain't worth spit

18 Nov 13:44

High-tech 'blade runner' legs better than real ones - profs

Olympic ban on Dr Who Cybermen seems likely

18 Nov 11:19

Brain-delving boffins in key monkey-butler breakthrough

Inability of apes to understand drinks orders probed

12 Nov 11:54

Docs press for probe into 'designer vaginas'

Warn over 'invasive and irrevocable' labiaplasty ops

11 Nov 12:04

Fungal invader bites Spanish ham

Phytophthora hits vital acorn supplies

11 Nov 10:58

US boffins hail lab-grown rabbit todger

Repaired lapines going at it like, erm...

10 Nov 13:12

Spanish Army builds ant-colony AI conquistador algorithm

Iberian insect intelligence to plan 'actual strategy'

9 Nov 12:28

Swedish cyborg gets haptic hand

'Perfectly good nerve endings' plugged in once again

9 Nov 10:22

US sees 'hot-tub related injuries' increase triplefold

Horrific 'body part entanglement' <cough> bloodbath

3 Nov 16:33

Boffins working on biodegradable flexi LED implants

Silky hand-tattoo displays to replace watches, PDAs?

3 Nov 11:50

Chronically ill people 'happier if they abandon hope', say docs

Promises to 'reconnect bowels' make people sad

2 Nov 12:26

Female fruitbat fellatio frenzy: 70% give head

As do 100% of males - to themselves, naturally

2 Nov 11:31

'Internet Age' means egalitarian 'hunter-gatherer' society

Inherited cattle = unfairness, apparently

2 Nov 10:11

Subterranean hive mammals may offer cancer cure

Secrets of the sexy, naked ever-youthful Mole Queens

27 Oct 15:32

Disgraced Korean cloning scientist given suspended sentence

Not a mammoth punishment under the cirumstances

26 Oct 12:21

Pregnant monkeys on crack - boffins investigate

Womb-coked simians in banana-pellet munchies frenzy

23 Oct 14:02

Republican men hormonally emasculated by US election

Obama win sees GOP testosterone plunge, 'submissiveness'

21 Oct 13:12

Magpies hold funerals for fallen feathered friends

One for sorrow

21 Oct 09:49

UK fatties demand 'hate crime' status for lardo-baiting

German study shows 'overweight' BMI perfectly healthy

19 Oct 14:06

Neanderthal woman could whup Schwarzenegger

Modern man is big wuss, claims anthropologist

19 Oct 12:54

Boffins 'write directly to memory' of living brains

Implant false memories by 'seizing control of circuits'

16 Oct 13:43

Federal boffins: 'Giant invading snakes' will soon rule USA

20-foot reptile maneaters massing in Florida, Texas

14 Oct 15:06

Farmer fined for ignoring cow's 'psychological needs'

Bovine kept in dark

14 Oct 14:40

Horny new 'ballerina' Tyrannosaur was light on its feet

Delicate dino coexisted uneasily with bigger brethren

6 Oct 10:06

Geordi LaForge video-to-brain rig built at MIT

Small Mexican pigs seem pleased with it

24 Sep 12:50

Average Brit shags 2.8m people

'Sex Degrees of Separation'

23 Sep 10:54

Pull the plug on Pandas, declares BBC man

Then torch the civil servants, human race

22 Sep 11:24

Britons warned of plague of the 'supercats'

Ferocious feline chimeras menace dogs, children

21 Sep 10:58

CSI boffins: You can't ID crims from bitemarks on victims

Corpse-chomp research discredits gnasherprinting

17 Sep 15:56

Rich people cannot feel pain, don't care if they're liked

And being skint makes you a crybaby, say profs

17 Sep 12:48

Human brain 'works like US presidential elections'

If only you could kill those with beer, too

15 Sep 16:11

Warning: Showers can seriously damage your health

Geeks proved right after all

15 Sep 13:56

NZ scientists identify giant, man-eating eagle

Legendary Te Hokioi really existed

14 Sep 11:07

Germans satisfy latex desire with GM dandelions

No more uncomfortable rashes - fungus plague forestalled

11 Sep 14:48

Scientists lay bare Irish potato famine blight

Phytophthora infestans genome sequenced

10 Sep 09:08

Pesticides fingered in UK honeybee wipeout

Further suspicion falls on neonicotinoids

9 Sep 11:49

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