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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...

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...

Are You Being Servo’d? Cybathlon: The Olympics of Assistive Technologies

16/02/2016

A global Olympic-style competition to advance assistive & robotic technologies...

Smile, Or You’re on Report. How Your Wellness Can Pay For Your Manager’s Ski Trip

15/02/2016

How to increase employee wellness and motivation by tying 10% of managerial salary increases to health initiatives...

If You’d Like Less Brain Volume, Press the Red Button Now.

14/02/2016

Neurologists suggest that poor physical fitness in middle age may be linked to a smaller brain size later on....

Got some spinifex on ya, cock? Bio-Engineering Superthin Condoms

13/02/2016

Fibers from the Australian native spinifex grass are being used to improve latex that could be used to make condoms as thin as a human hair without any loss in strength...

The Celestial Time Capsule is Your Chance to Send a Message into Space

11/02/2016

Artistic space odyssey to broadcast people's messages to the stars ...

Maybe Practise Makes Perfect, But Perfect Makes Enemies.

10/02/2016

Everyone hates a know-all. Seeing exemplary peer work can undermine student performance ...

What do People Think About Climate Engineering? The answer may surprise you

09/02/2016

New tool for gauging public opinion reveals skepticism of climate engineering ...

Could This Be the Invention that Fixes Everything? CO2 as Sustainable Fuel

08/02/2016

Carbon dioxide captured from air converted directly to methanol fuel for the first time ...

Breaking: New Zealand Invaded (by Little Penguins)

07/02/2016

New Zealand's little penguins are recent Australian invaders ...

Want Lightspeed Internet? You need NASA’s integrated-photonics modem

03/02/2016

NASA engineers tapped to build first integrated-photonics modem ...

Swiss Scientists Beat Off Rivals to Develop ‘Soft Gripper’

01/02/2016

Technologists in Lausanne develop robotic fingers with a gentle touch ...

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...

Exercise Alone Won’t Help You Slim! But what DOES work?

30/01/2016

Why you won't lose weight by exercising constantly, and what you can do about it...

Psst, Keep this to yourself: How to Expose Massive Conspiracies

28/01/2016

Equation shows that large-scale conspiracies would quickly reveal themselves. But maybe that's just What They Want You To Think! Or not. Perhaps. ...

Thwack! Feel the Flow with Pressure-Sensitive Rubber Gloves

27/01/2016

More than mere Marigolds, Tokyo University researchers develop pressure-sensitive rubber gloves for medical workers....

Wanna Swap some Cells? Get Some Acoustic Tweezers in Your Handbag

26/01/2016

Acoustic tweezers provide much needed pluck for 3-D bioprinting. But what do they do? Report...

Early Kinship and Community Displayed at Newly-Examined Spanish Megalithic Tomb

25/01/2016

Neolithic megalithic tomb in Spain comprehensively examined for the first time ...

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. ...

Fry, not Boil, for a Healthier Diet. WHUT?!

23/01/2016

Deep-fried sprouts, anyone? Vegetables fried with olive oil have more healthy properties than boiled ones ...

Real Life or Social Media – How Many Friends is Too Many?

22/01/2016

Are you really my friend? Social media isn't the same as real life, but a new study suggests the same skills apply. How does it all work?...

Why Spiderman Can’t Climb Walls

20/01/2016

There is a size limit to sticky footpads as an evolutionary solution to climbing...

Eat Your Way to Better Sleep

19/01/2016

Diet-based recommendations might be used to improve sleep in those with poor sleep quality...

Whipworm, Roundworm, Parasites. What did the Romans ever do for us?

17/01/2016

Roman toilets gave no clear health benefit, and Romanization actually spread parasites ...

What’s 570 billion times brighter than our sun? The Millisecond Magnetar

16/01/2016

Astronomers study what may be the most powerful supernova ever seen...

Ink Levels Low? Fill it up with Rust! 3D Printing Advances

14/01/2016

New rapid method expands the types of metals, alloys, and architectures that can be additively manufactured...

Sweat it Out. Cracking Lower Back Pain

13/01/2016

Exercise associated with prevention of low back pain ...

But How Do You Get the Lid Off? Mesoglue Revolutionises Nano-Stickiness

12/01/2016

A glue that binds metal to metal to glass to you-name-it, sets at room temperature, and requires little pressure to seal...

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