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Brain and Brawn : Higher Intelligence Improves Physical Performance

New research reveals a distinct association between male intelligence in early adulthood and their subsequent midlife physical performance....

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The Internet Told Me! Wikipedia Research Subject to Information Sabotage

When researching acid rain, evolution, and climate change -- cast a critical eye on source material...

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Evolution’s Double Throw : Beer Yeast

The crucial genetic mashup that spawned the yeast that brews the vast majority of beer occurred at least twice -- and both times without human help...

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With Women, Seduction Starts at the Stomach

Eating may prime or sensitize young women to rewards beyond food. It also supports a shared neurocircuitry for food and sex....

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The Slaver and the Snarl. Dog Bites (and avoiding them)

There was a common tendency for victims to blame themselves for the attack, rather than the animal...

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Spots or Stripes? Why Animal Camouflage is WRONG

Stripes might not offer protection for animals living in groups, such as zebra, as previously thought....

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Are you Ready for 11 Billion? World Population – Soon.

The primary driver of global population growth is a projected increase in the population of Africa. ...

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Sexting : How Often, Who To?

These findings show a robust relationship between sexting and sexual and relationship satisfaction....

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Love Hurts, Especially for Women

Women experience more emotional pain following a breakup, but they also more fully recover....

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Lose Weight Fast, Barbecue Yourself Slim

The metabolism of the fat samples, the makeup of the fat cells and the patients' resting metabolic rates were measured....

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Dopey Olds and their Role in Child Development

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”A/dropcapcting like a witless idiot whilst looking after your children gives a positive boost to their development. Which is why new parents...

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One Lump or Two? How Sugar Makes Caffeine Clump

New insights into the way in which caffeine, sugar and water interact at the molecular level to affect the taste of hot beverages....

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Betwixt the Body and the Brain. Why Stress Makes Your Body Tired

The brain is just like any other biological tissue, it can be overused and can suffer from fatigue...

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Tomorrow’s Detox Diet Today : Chimpanzee Clay Chewing

Chimps have recently started to boost the minerals in their diet by eating the clay which also helps them 'detox' and digest their food....

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You Can Go Your Own Way (But You Won’t). Social Behaviour and Majority Rule

The more diversity there is in behaviour, the more likely people are to copy the majority....

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Decision Frames : How Retailers Influence Your Pizza Order

Explaining the way people decide to customize their food orders and the implications for retailers and customers alike....

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Live Long and Jump High : Seaworld’s Killer Whales Don’t Die Young

This article represents the first peer-reviewed publication that directly compares reproductive and survivorship patterns between captive and wild killer whales...

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Sleep Tight, Make Memories Bright

The beneficial impact of sleep on memory is well established, and the act of sleeping is known to help us remember the things that we did, or heard, the previous day...

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Horny by name, not by nature. Breeding the Colorado Bighorn

The health of Colorado's bighorn sheep population remains as precarious as the steep alpine terrain the animals inhabit...

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Well-preserved or Just Pickled? Old Age and Harmful Drinking

Harmful drinking in later life is more prevalent among people who exhibit a lifestyle associated with affluence and with a 'successful' ageing process...

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Reduced Circumstances = Reduced Emissions? CO2 and the Financial Crisis

The 11 percent decrease in climate change-causing carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. between 2007 and 2013 was caused by the global financial recession - not the reduced use of coal...

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Phobic? Learn Something New For Fear Management

It is not only important to break the links between environmental cues and fear, but also to substitute new learning about safety for further fear management....

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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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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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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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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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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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