Science

Found this on Norma's blog.  Larger sample sets lead to more accurate data, so go take the survey.  Then peek at the preliminary results.  More females have taken the survey than males as of today.

New model 'permits time travel'.  Fire up the TARDIS. If you went back in time and met your teenage parents, you could not split them up and prevent your birth - even if you wanted to, a new quantum model has stated.  Researchers speculate that time travel can

Curvier women 'will live longer'. Curvy women are more likely to live longer than their slimmer counterparts, researchers have found.  Institute of Preventative Medicine in Copenhagen researchers found those with wider hips also appeared to be protected against heart conditions.  Women with a hip measurement smaller than 40

Mystery of German exploding toads Toads in an area of northern Germany are being killed off by a mysterious disease - they are exploding.  Thousands of the amphibians have died in recent days in a pond in Hamburg's Altona district, with their bodies swelling to bursting point.  The

Smart lenses to halt short sight Scientists have designed special contact lenses that could help make short-sightedness a thing of the past.  The custom-made lenses are intended to correct problems with focusing which eye experts blame for progressive short vision, or myopia.  A team at Anglia Polytechnic University will test

Black holes 'do not exist' Black holes are staples of science fiction and many think astronomers have observed them indirectly. But according to a physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, these awesome breaches in space-time do not and indeed cannot exist.  Over the past few

Breeding success for rare kakapo Down on a lonely island off the southern tip of New Zealand, three new kakapo have just been born.  These new chicks bring the total number of one of the world's rarest birds to 86.  The critically endangered kakapo - fat, green, musty-smelling