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A Computational Tool to Tame Golf’s SCARIEST Drive

21/03/2016

Computer simulations may help golfers tame the sport's 'scariest 155 yards' ...

Come to the Dark Side with Turnable Windows

15/03/2016

Inspired by frozen ponds, Harvard becomes the latest Ivy League powerhouse to address the always-vexing problem of window light...

Give Me Fifty, or I’ll Give You Zilch. Workplace wellness gets nasty

19/02/2016

Withholding incentives is a more effective motivation than guaranteed rewards, when pushing employees to exercise...

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Fracking Earthquakes are Only the Start – Wait Till You See What it Does to Your Water Supply

17/02/2016

Stanford University expert on the health impacts of fossil fuels studies groundwater quality at oil and gas fields...

Edging It, Or Not. The One Small Step that Stops Teens Taking Risks

31/01/2016

Teenagers are notorious risktakers, but new research suggests there is a way to calm them down. Report...

Zap Those Clouds Away: Smart Windows Get Cheaper

24/01/2016

Soft colour composites may offer a cheaper alternative to smart windows. MIT researcher explains how. ...

Soft Robot Develops Independent Action

14/09/2014

Researchers tested the robot in snow, submerged it in water, walked it through flames, and even ran it over with a car, and after each experiment, it walked away unscathed....

Drug-Taking Kids Ignore Feds Shocker

18/08/2014

The RAVE Act has clearly been ineffective in curtailing drug use at club events...

Beer by Grant Cochrane/Freedigitalphotos.net

The Arguments that Kill Men

11/05/2014

Men seemed to be particularly vulnerable to the worries and demands generated by their female partners, with a higher risk of death....

Google Glasses to Guide Surgeons

21/04/2014

Report on the early uses of Google Glass in the healthcare setting...

Dragons or Flies? The State Apparatus of Fear

31/03/2014

Meet your fears, look them in the eye, live among them for a time. Discern whether they consist of an insect buzzing at your windowpane or is a dragon on the roof...

Slammed : Phone Companies Stealing Your Number

28/03/2014

Telephone companies can take, replace, steal or remove your number, leaving you with few options, little recourse to complain, and in the dark as to how this can happen...

Rejecting Capitalism’s Putrefying Paradigm

24/03/2014

Late capitalism's putrefying paradigm has but one remedy for the devastation reaped by the system... insanely, more production and more consumerism....

Football is ‘Subject to laws of Physics’ Shocker!

20/03/2014

A simple rule governs the complex dynamics of the ball and the team's front-line...

Bring the Gnar – Extreme Sports and Injury

17/03/2014

The thrill of extreme sports comes at a price: a higher risk for severe neck and head injuries...

Apicture of a nurse by Charlotte Jarvis @ Waag Society

The Real Cost of Healthcare Cuts

22/02/2014

Greece's health crisis is worsening as a result of continued healthcare budget cuts. Can the rest of Europe learn from it? ...

A picture of a tricycle by Florian Klauer

Covet Thy Neighbour’s Life, Good Citizen

16/02/2014

Where you live could affect whether or not you spend compulsively...

A poster for Gastonbury benefit, Falkirk

Silent auction for ‘Gastonbury’ benefit gig

28/01/2014

Raising money to pay for legal representation at the upcoming Public Inquiry into Dart Energy’s controversial plans to drill for coal bed methane gas on farmland and under homes...

A picture of a lighthouse. Public domain

Love Thy Neighbour or Lynch Him?

27/01/2014

Statistically speaking, right-wing authoritarianism appears to suppress the positive relationship between religiosity and love of neighbor...

Drilling into Magma for Geothermal Energy

24/01/2014

Drilling into magma is a very rare occurrence anywhere in the world and this is only the second known instance, the first one, in 2007, being in Hawaii...

Mid-Life Memory Loss : It’s the Booze

17/01/2014

Middle-aged men who drink more than 36 grams of alcohol, or two and a half US drinks per day, may speed their memory loss by up to six years later on....

|A npicture of a house for sale by Freedigitalphotos.net/Artur84

50 Years of Social Progress. Reversed.

28/12/2013

People born in the 1960’s and 70’s will retire poorer than their parents...

A picture of a field by Carl Byron Batson

Antibiotic Attack!

27/12/2013

Without effective antibiotics, any surgery – even minor ones – will become extremely risky....

A picture of a cointoss by Freedigitalphotos.net/patpitchaya

Odd or Even? Your Brain Sucks

24/12/2013

If the brain is like a computer, why do brains make mistakes that computers don't?...

Suicide Stigma Still Survives

21/12/2013

Explaining why suicide is stigmatized and often considered a taboo topic of conversation...

Getting Blind on Jailhouse Wine

16/12/2013

Went to a party in the county jail, threw my spleen up in a rusty pail....

Mathematical Models to Avoid Conflict

15/12/2013

The findings show that this mathematical formula of the form AB-C is a valuable tool that can be applied to make quantitative predictions concerning future attacks in a given confrontation. ...