// An American company has recently developed a technique that can make bread stay mould-free for 60 days. The company Microzap, which uses a sophisticated microwave to kill spores that cause the problem, claims it could significantly reduce the amount of bread wasted each year, which in the UK is as high ...
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A recent survey conducted by Fusion Condoms found that many Britons get red-faced when buying condoms. Genevieve Edwards, executive director of health improvement at the Terrence Higgins Trust, said: “It's a population-wide issue, something that doesn't really change whatever sex or age. Buying condoms is a public declaration that you want ...
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Scientists believe they may be getting closer to developing a birth control pill for men - an equivalent to the female contraceptive that was first made available to women in the UK more than 50 years ago. A study in the US found that the drug, called JQ1, effectively stunted ...
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‘Tis the season for it – holidaying, that is. Both Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg have jetted off for their respective family holidays in Spain; reportedly the second vacation of the summer for the Lib Dem leader. . Across the Channel, meanwhile, Francois Hollande, the ...
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According to a recent study into the future of outer-space travel, the burgeoning commercial space travel industry could bring in as much as £1 billion in its first decade of operation, driven largely by “high-net-worth individuals” with dreams of seeing earth from the heavens, and the funds needed to make ...
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Takeaways have a special place in the culinary heart of the UK, and many of us have enjoyed occasionally reaching for the phone to order dinner in rather than slaving over a hot stove. Domino’s Pizza recently reported a spike in sales that it attributed in part to the recent ...
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The £10 note is due for an upgrade. Charles Darwin is featured on the current design, but it is due to be withdrawn in the next few years and the Bank of England will need to find a new prominent (and deceased) Briton to adorn the new tenner… In YouGov’s ...
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The UK's Faculty of Public Health thinks alcohol labelling should carry highly-visible health warnings on bottles and cans to give people more information about the risks of drinking, in line with the ones borne by cigarette packets. We gauged your reaction in Labs to the Faculty's proposal, by asking you ...
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Body hair – everybody has it. Some have dark hair, some have light; some possess scarce traces of it, while others boast it as a more prominent feature. Natural though it may be, it's not everybody's cup of tea, as our recent discussion in Labs on the matter deftly highlighted. In ...
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Recently it was Beard Week 2012, and to mark the occasion we invited you to voice your views on beards and other forms of facial hair. Participants were invited to identify themselves as male or female, and the men who took part in the discussion were slightly warmer to the ...
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