Birth control is to be used on pigeons in California in an effort to combat the “unmanageable” mess their increasing numbers are causing.
Animal rights groups support using the contraceptive in preference to other methods such as gates which give electric shocks and poisoning.
A daily pint of beer or a large glass of wine raises the risk of bowel cancer by about 10%, research suggests.
The Cancer Research UK study found that the more you drink, the more the risk of the disease increases.
Those who drank more than 30 grams of alcohol – less than a couple of pints of strong lager – raised their risk by about 25%.
Investigators in the United States are trying to discover where a huge chunk of ice which smashed through a pensioner’s roof came from.
Several pieces fell on the town of Dubuque in Iowa, with one reportedly weighing over 22kg.
UK scientists have developed technology that enables artificial limbs to be directly attached to a human skeleton.
The breakthrough, developed by researchers at University College London, allows the prosthesis to breach the skin without risk of infection.
CHICAGO — Soft drinks – even diet ones – may be linked with increased risk factors for heart disease and diabetes, U.S. researchers say.
They found that adults who drink one or more soft drinks a day had about a 50-per-cent higher risk of metabolic syndrome – a cluster of risk factors such as excessive fat around the waist, low levels of “good” cholesterol, high blood pressure and other symptoms.
“When you have metabolic syndrome, your risk of developing heart disease or stroke doubles. You also have a risk of developing diabetes,” said Dr. Ramachandran Vasan of Boston University School of Medicine, whose work appears in the journal Circulation.
When, a few years back, scientists and public health officials began using the expression “obesity epidemic,” it was controversial.The term epidemic was traditionally used to describe the rapid spread of infectious diseases such as influenza or polio. But the argument was made that the term could be used in a non-biological sense to refer to widespread and growing social problems.
A US cat that is reportedly able to sense when a nursing home’s residents are about to die is baffling doctors.
Oscar has a habit of curling up next to patients at the home in Providence, Rhode Island, in their final hours.
According to the author of a study in the New England Journal of Medicine, the two-year-old cat has been observed to be correct in 25 cases so far.
Having a friend, sibling or spouse who is overweight raises a person’s risk of being obese too, US researchers say.
They said data on more than 12,000 people suggested the risk was increased by 57% if a friend was obese, by 40% if a sibling was and 37% if a spouse was.
They argued this showed social factors, such as the body sizes of other people, were important in developing obesity.
Rats are being trained by police in Colombia to sniff out landmines – with the help of cats.
For the past year, a special police unit has been locking rats in cages with cats as part of their training.
More than 100,000 landmines, planted mostly by leftist rebels, are scattered across the war-torn South American country.
A fisherman has told Sky News Online how he landed a 16ft thresher shark just 200 yards off the North Yorkshire coast.
Pip Farline, 44, and four friends heaved the half-ton monster aboard his 18ft fishing boat after discovering it tangled in salmon nets off Filey, near Scarborough.
“At first I thought it was a porpoise but when I realised what it was I called on some friends for help.
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