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Banking on Algorithms : Predicting Financial Collapse

The learning mechanism of neurones has inspired researchers at the University of Valladolid (Spain) to create algorithms that can predict whether a bank will go bust....

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Wooing the M-Shopper. Retail goes Mobile

Low spenders in particular shop more often and place larger orders after adopting mobile....

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(Badly) Analysing The Evolution of Pop Music With SCIENCE

It's exciting to be able to study the evolution of popular music scientifically. But now we want to go further, and find out not just how the music has changed, but why....

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Bricks and Mortar has good news in store

When brick-and-mortar stores were added, consumers made more frequent purchases overall....

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Walk Quicker, Live Longer

Even short walks add up to a lot when repeated many times over the course of a week....

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Tackling Obeersity : Calorie Labels on Booze

Most were completely unaware that alcohol contributed to the total calories that they consumed....

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Trebuchet Talks

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Transforming the Office with Liquid Crystal Smart Windows

A novel liquid crystal technology allows displays to flip between transparent and opaque states ...

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The Peas Are Nice, Dear. Ageing Insects

As insects grow old their behaviour becomes increasingly predictable...

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In Denial? Flour Beetles in a Harsh World

Flour beetles exhibit a highly tactile form of courtship in which the male mounts the female and stimulates her...

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Child Safety? There’s an App for That

Health professionals can and should unite with industry to optimize children's already frequent use of mobile devices to help promote their health and well-being...

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Megatron or Optimus Prime : Which Leader Are You?

The Transformers' characters and the stories told in the cartoon are a modern example of traditional folklore as a means of educating individuals about leadership....

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Piling it On : Television and Obese Children

Kindergartners and first-graders who watched as little as one hour of television a day were more likely to be overweight or obese ...

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Tinnitus and the Brain 3D Mapped

Activity directly linked to tinnitus was very extensive, and spanned a large proportion of the brain...

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Feeling Invisible… Deliberately. Weird Science Simulation

The feeling of invisibility changes our physical stress response in challenging social situations...

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Presenting the Ping Pong Ourobouros of Singapore

The white, pearl-like spheres will become luminescent by night, and the sentences will join up to form lines flowing around the circular shape....

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Serotonin and Depression : Busting the Myth

The widely held belief that depression is due to low levels of serotonin in the brain - and that effective treatments raise these levels - is a myth, argues a leading psychiatrist...

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10x the Speed! Boosting Wifi with Photodiodes

The system can potentially send data at up to 100 megabits per second....

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Only a Few? Smoking and Denial

It seems that people are aware about the dangers of tobacco for health, but might consider that the risks are not for themselves, but only for other people....

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Cancer-busting broccoli FTW!

Broccoli sprout extract protects against oral cancer in mice and proved tolerable in a small group of healthy human volunteers...

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The Sweat Smell of Success

In a way, happiness sweat is somewhat like smiling - it is infectious....

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Then bury your head in it…. Nuclear Waste Disposal

Deep borehole disposal has been developed primarily in the UK but is likely to see its first field trials in the USA next year. ...

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How to Promote Backyard Bird Diversity

Neighborhoods most attractive to birds were those in which many yards had fruit or berry-bearing trees and shrubs...

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Can You Catch Norovirus from Your Dog? Maybe.

It is not clear just how much of a problem canine infection and transmission may represent for humans...

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Kissy Kissy Icky Icky. Why kids don’t snog

A hardwired signal in the brain accounts for young children’s temporary aversion to bestowing physical affection on the opposite sex. It takes at least a decade of marriage to make the...

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That serotonin high is a gut feeling

It is estimated that 90 percent of the body's serotonin is made in the digestive tract....

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Quakes or cancer : Which Fracking Death Would YOU Prefer?

'there are a lot of potential ways that fracking may be distributing and spreading radon'...

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Too scared to sleep? Nightmares and insomnia – the link

Depression and insomnia are strongest risk factors for frequent nightmares ...

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Hubble looks into the galactic past

Eight unusual looped structures orbit their host galaxies and glow in a bright and eerie goblin-green hue...

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How cigarette smoking superbugs get even more super

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”N/dropcapicotine-addled MRSA superbugs get even badder-assed when they are exposed to cigarette smoke. It figures. Work starts on the...

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