Smile if You Want to Look Older (But Less Fun)

Smile and the world thinks you're older: Study ...

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Alberto Giacometti at Tate Modern

An extensive retrospective at Tate Modern sees Alberto Giacometti's works embodying human anxieties and alienation...

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Black Star Riders Announce New Sticksman (and Tour Dates)

New drummer, new dates. Black Star Riders bother Europe with a slew of live gigs ...

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Demands will be placed on the Listener. Bitter Music (Perc)

Perc's Bitter Music is stylistically labyrinthine, full of murky passages and the occasional dead end...

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Trebuchet Issue 1 Launch

Whisky, discussion and high spirits mark the launch of Trebuchet magazine's issue on art curation. ...

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Speak. Or Forever Hold Your Peace?

Constant communication communicates nothing. Would it help to stop and think?...

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Paying For Fake Reviews? Durr. The Internet is Unpredictable Shocker!

Paying online community members to write product reviews backfires badly ...

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Please Stomp on the Grass: Hayseed Dixie

Tie-dyed dungarees, banjos and beards - Hayseed Dixie prove that beauty's all in the ear...

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Some Corals Are Adapting to Global Warming. Some Aren’t.

WCS coral expert finds that some reefs were less sensitive to warming water over time...

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As the Stages Burn: Arch Enemy Live at Wacken

Arch Enemy nail the always-tricky task of putting a live performance onto wax...

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Tracking the Ripples in the Cosmic Web

A team of astronomers has made the first measurements of small-scale ripples in primeval hydrogen gas using rare double quasars...

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Loitered Lens: Womadelaide 2017

After 25 years, Womadelaide still surprises. Photos from 2017's edition...

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Two Bottles of Buff, Pharmacist! Towards a Musclebuilding Pill

Suppressing a protein builds muscle mass, improves markers of heart health without weight loss...

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Viewing the Inner Billygoat: Self-Portraiture at Whitechapel Gallery

Portraiture becomes an extension of the artist in search of deeper answers, at Whitechapel Gallery...

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Could Artificial Photosynthesis = Global Cooling? Ask a Boffin

Scientist invents way to trigger artificial photosynthesis to clean air ...

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They Might Be Dragons! Inventing Trauma for Population Control

State manufactured fear is a phantom which can never be fought. But it can be ignored....

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The God Shot: Banish Prostate Cancer with Espresso

Drinking more than 3 Italian-style coffee cups a day reduces prostate cancer risk by more than 50 percent...

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Slippers and Chardonnay Time? (Womadelaide Epilogue)

25 years of festivals proves that, despite grumbles from the old 'uns, Womadelaide knows best....

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Snap Your Shiny Suspenders for Sustainable Rubber

Findings by Delaware scientists could transform the multi-billion-dollar plastics and rubber industries...

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Loitered Lens: Dätcha Mandala

Supporting Hayseed Dixie on UK tour duties, Dätcha Mandala walk off with the show. Photos...

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Shake, not Spin: How To Interpret Political Debates

Post-Trump, Post-Brexit, we now know that there's a trick to interpreting political debate. ...

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Know Your Moles: The Star-Nosed Mole

Strange-looking creature yields surprising insights about nerves, brains and extreme adaptation...

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Are You Getting Enough? (Sleep): Sleep Patterns and Sounds

Associating sleep sounds with sleep patterns provides a whole new prospect of sleep diagnostics....

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Joy and Division: Peter Hook (Interview)

Peter Hook talks New Order, Joy Division and women in yoghurt....

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Asteroids: If the impact doesn’t get you, what will?

In an asteroid impact, violent winds, shock waves from impacts pose greatest threat to humans...

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Grey Monday (More Blue Rinse than Blue Skies): Womadelaide

Kids waving flags, fruitbats cackling and an improvisational spin at Womadelaide...

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Frog Slime: The Cure for the Common Cold… Almost

Frog slime kills flu virus ...

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Mastering Fear: A User Guide

What if fear could be used not as a wall, but as a gate? ...

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‘With Deep Regret’ (for about ten minutes): Teachers’ Resignation Letters

Teacher resignation letters paint bleak picture of US education ...

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Look On My Works, Ye Mighty. And Grind.

Buried hubris and follies of personality along southern France's Atlantikwall...

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