Two baby giant otters - the first to be born at Chester Zoo's new breeding centre - have made their first public appearance. The pups were born in September, six months after the zoo opened the UK's first underwater viewing zone for the species. They are now being individually taught how to swim by their parents. Curator of mammals Tim Rowlands said: "They are such a charming and charismatic species." "It might surprise some to learn that a species so well adapted to living aroun
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Eating more chocolate improves a nation's chances of producing Nobel Prize winners - or at least that's what a recent study appears to suggest. But how much chocolate do Nobel laureates eat, and how could any such link be explained?
The study's author, Franz Messerli of Colombia University, started wondering about the power of chocolate after reading that cocoa was good for you.
Tom Cruise highest paid actor in Hollywood, says Forbes
Tom Cruise has topped a list of the highest paid actors in Hollywood. The star, who is getting divorced from wife Katie Holmes, made nearly twice as much as second-placed Leonardo DiCaprio in the Forbes Magazine rundown(краткое изложение). It's after the 50-year-old's appearance in the latest Mission: Impossible film - Ghost Protocol - which made more than $7
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Related Stories Researchers in the US have been shocked to discover a beluga whale whose vocalisations were remarkably close to human speech. While dolphins have been taught to mimic(имитировать) the pattern(шаблон) and durations(продолжительность) of sounds in human speech, no animal has spontaneously
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British people - and many others across the world - have been brought up on the idea of three square meals a day as a normal eating pattern, but it wasn't always that way.
People are repeatedly told the hallowed family dinner around a table is in decline and the UK is not the only country experiencing such change.
The case for breakfast, missed by many with deleterious effects, is that it makes us more alert, helps keep us trim and improves children's work and behaviour
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