Popular Science News | Shake ‘n Power

Popular Science News – it ain’t new, the idea of using movement to charge a device. Some of the readers might be old enough to remember the introduction of the self-winding watch in the 1960s. My friend had one but he was so lazy it kept stopping – boom, boom! Please yourself.

Now this […]

Popular Science News | Global Warming Isn’t Causing Droughts

Popular Science News – according to common-sense, global warming should equal droughts. If it gets warmer, water evaporates and so there is less liquid water, which we call a drought. Contrary to expectation, new research data seems to show that over the last 50 years there has been no increase in the incidence of […]

Popular Science News | No Proof Tamiflu Works

Popular Science News – last year, Tamiflu, manufactured by Roche, was included in the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) list of ‘essential medicines.’ In effect, making the company’s product a must buy for the NHS. The problem is, there is no proof that it works.

Peter Gotzsche, leader of the Nordic Cochrane Centre in Copenhagen […]