Wood Stress and Woodquakes. How Hard is Your Wood?

The sound we hear when we listen to wood is analogous to seismic waves released by earthquakes. Examining wood stress, fundamentally, at last....

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Monthly Metal and Melancholy Menace : Cradle of Filth, Orchid….

This is probably Cradle of Filth 's best album in a while, being neither immediately accessible (and so disposable) or opaquely impenetrable (and so rubbish)....

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Pirates (near) the Caribbean? Centuries-Old Shipwreck Discovered

Our accidental find illustrates the rewards -- and the challenge and uncertainty -- of working in the deep ocean," ...

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Meet the Deepwater Goby Fish that Science Missed

By thoroughly investigating reef ecosystems that lie just below shallow coral reefs, describing new species, documenting depth ranges of new and known species, we are providing the baseline...

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What Were the Skies Like Before Fossil Fuels?

"Life in the ocean has a big effect on clouds," said co-author Dennis Hartmann, a UW professor of atmospheric sciences....

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The Black Guy in the Middle: Skindred’s Benji Webbe

‘Look, humour me, just try it. Do some dancehall stuff on top of the punk we do’. Next thing you know we’re called Dub War and we've got a record deal. - Benji Webb...

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Coaches Can Help Prevent Sports Injuries

Teaching coaches about the prevention of sports injuries and contact restrictions pays off, say researchers who tracked injury rates among youth football players...

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Finding the Child Inside : Kathy Curtis Cahill

My main interest is still people and their inner selves hidden behind the public face. I am looking for ways to show that still vulnerable child inside....

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Too Much Telly Gets Your Toddler… Bullied?!

The toddler 's TV watching habits were reported by their parents and their victimization in grade 6 was self-reported by the children themselves....

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Loitered Lens : Primus live at Brixton Academy

Primus wanted to remind you that they’ve always been a band looking forward, reminding us that the old stuff was just that....

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Austerity : The Colonialism of the Corporate

The blood-sucking tyrannies of neoliberal austerity were inflicted on the Greek people by means of election ruses....

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Why Do You Notice Human Screams, But Not Jetplanes?

Screaming really works," Poeppel says. "It is one of the earliest sounds that everyone makes...

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Cleaners that Kill

Imagine if, in an effort to clean the air more efficiently, you were involuntarily introducing chemicals more dangerous than the ones you were trying to scrub. ...

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Crank Thy Humbuckers – Ratatat Release Magnifique

Mahoosive dynamics, the customary duelling guitar chops, and surf drums pulling everything together. Air guitar and dancefloor screwface, in one handy pack. Cribbens!...

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All About the Self Esteem? Obese Teens in Denial

an increasing number of overweight adolescents do not consider themselves as obese teens....

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Reverend Horton Heat, Islington Academy.

During a dusty warm front in old London town, Reverend Horton Heat and his punkabilly ensemble took to the stage at Islington Academy...

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Highway Slime : Worms Hitchhike on (and in) Slugs

Worms invaded the guts of slugs, survived and proliferated within the intestines, and were subsequently excreted alive with the slug feces....

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3 Weeks to Go! Countdown to Bloodstock!

BLOODSTOCK HQ is a-buzz with activity with just over three weeks to go!...

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Coma Ecliptic : a Progressive Metal Monster

There is more than one number that feels as though it contains a whole concept album's worth of music in seven or eight minutes....

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Seeking (and finding) the Soft-Bodied Jumping Robot

By seamlessly blending soft and rigid body parts -- a structural innovation used by animals and insects -- a team of Harvard scientists has created a new kind of durable, soft-bodied jumping robot...

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Bass, Beats, Bumps and Bees. (Peru Boom)

Bass, bleeps, beats and bumps from Peru's underground dance scene. What's that doing here, and can it revive a flagging bee found comotose in the reviewer's garden? Peru Boom 2015...

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Do Men Feel Threatened By Female Bosses?

In three experiments, Netchaeva and her co-authors discovered that men feel more threatened when they answer to female bosses....

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An Uncanny Phenomenon: Wild Kingdom (Clayton Campbell)

Los Angeles media artist Clayton Campbell unveils a difference in perception between today’s society and past generations'...

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Can Windfarms Hurt You… With Bass Sounds?

an international team of experts dealt with the fundamentals of hearing in the lower limit range of the audible frequency range (i.e. infrasound), but also in the upper limit range (i.e. ultrasound)....

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Loitered Lens : Magenta

Magenta play dense and complex music with a heavy and unapologetic influence of 70s Yes. ...

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Magnetosphere Waves Look Perfectly Surfable

Magnetosphere waves : two recently published papers highlight these shapely waves at the boundaries of near-Earth space....

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Sweet dreams: Primus ’ Wonka ends on a winsome note.

Backed by mesmerising animations of an elephant bouncing on a trampoline, no one can deny that Primus put on a great show...

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Goat Meat, The Meat on the Street, We Love to Eat

Goat meat is becoming more popular in America, and in large part it's been due to the desire of immigrants to retain the tastes and preferences of their country of origin...

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Moving glass, Bending Light. Linda Sue Price (Interview)

Experience neon in a new way — not as a sign — rather as fluidly moving glass ...

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Smartphone App Says ‘Go Home, You’re Drunk’

The Alcohol Tracker smartphone app enables users to log the number of beers/shots/glasses of wine they have knocked back on a given day which it then tots up for them in units...

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