London, Aug 14 : Britons are chatting like never before, says a new research, which found that the natives are spending a record amount of time chatting on the phone.

According to the study, they spent a total of 247billion minutes on the blower last year, up from 233billion in 2006, reports The Sun.

More calls are made from mobiles, with landline use falling.

They spend an average ten minutes a day talking and texting on a mobile — twice the 2002 figure.

But one in ten people with a landline say they never use it.

London, August 14 : German researchers have created a faster and more energy efficient version of the RAM used in computers today.

Santiago Serrano-Guisan and Hans Schumacher of the Physical-Technical Federal Laboratory of Germany have revealed that their version of RAM is about 10 times faster than the existing magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM), which hardware companies think will in a few years dominate the market.

"Present MRAM are programmed by pulses of about 10 nanoseconds duration. So we are ten times faster," New Scientist magazine quoted Serrano-Guisan as saying.

London, Aug 14 : Forget wearing loads of make up and skimpy clothes, the best way to grab your man’s attention has been found – buy him a pint of beer.

That’s the conclusion of a group of researchers, who have found that "beer goggles" really do work.

“Beer goggles” are considered to have distorted the "wearer''s" vision, making unattractive people appear beautiful, or at least passably attractive.

London, August 14 : Scientists have condemned Charles, the Prince of Wales, for blaming genetically modified (GM) crops for global warming, and have called him “shockingly ill-informed” and “negative”.

According to a report in the Times, the Prince of Wales had launched an attack on genetically modified crops after claiming that the technology would cause “the biggest environmental disaster of all time” and lead to “no food in the future”.

London, August 14 : A new report has predicted that the human brain could become a battlefield in future wars, including ‘pharmacological land mines’ and drones directed by mind control.

According to the Guardian, in a report commissioned by the Defense Intelligence Agency of the US, leading scientists were asked to examine how a greater understanding of the brain over the next 20 years is likely to drive the development of new medicines and technologies.

They found several areas in which progress could have a profound impact, including behaviour-altering drugs, scanners that can interpret a person’s state of mind and devices capable of boosting senses such as hearing and vision.

London, Aug 14 : Women start fretting about the effects of ageing at the ‘grand’ age of 28, shows a new research.