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Huge Virus Breakthrough Could Mean A Cure For The Common Cold

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Researchers at a Cambridge lab have found that our bodies can fight viruses not only outside cells but inside them too; a discovery that will rewrite textbooks and one that could save millions of lives by vanquishing the common cold.


March 5, 2010
Science

Electro-hypersensitivity: The Gadget Allergy

A man hassled a neighbour over his Wi-Fi allergies, and we dismissed him as a member of the tin-foil hat brigade. Now we’re reading PopSci’s look at the electro-hypersensitivity – the real deal gadget allergy – and we’re feeling sorta like arseholes.


January 7, 2010
Science

Mobile Phones Can Help Ward Off Alzheimer’s – If You’re A Rodent

Researchers in Florida have discovered that mobile phone radiation isn’t just about the bad things in life – visual damage, cancer, heart disease, Zac Efron – but may even be useful against Alzheimer’s. Just ask the laboratory mice.