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Official: Smartphones Make You Stupid(er)

02/04/2015

The cognitive effects of 'being in search mode' on the Internet may be so powerful that people still feel smarter even when their online searches reveal nothing...

Which Way does the Leaf Go? Drawing Apple Logos

31/03/2015

People's memory, even for extremely common objects, is much poorer than they believe it to be....

Music, motor function, learning and memory

30/03/2015

Playing music enhanced the activity of genes involved in dopaminergic neurotransmission, motor function, learning and memory....

Giving Drones Morphable Wings

29/03/2015

This finding will greatly help make flapping winged drones much more robust....

Dating by Faith – Why?

28/03/2015

People's decision to partner with religious or non-religious individuals can be determined by personality traits that religiosity is believed--rightly or wrongly--to predict...

Opting out of the attention economy.

27/03/2015

Firms will realize substantially greater success if they use moderately energetic commercials rather than highly energetic ones...

Defining ‘Natural’. Why ALL food additives need standards.

26/03/2015

After decades of debate there remains no generally accepted definition of a "natural" food product....

Fallow and Flower, For Feeding the Bees

25/03/2015

Flower strips sown into farmers' fields not only attract bees but increase their numbers...

Opossum in your Snakebite, Sir?

24/03/2015

The antivenom would probably work against venoms from poisonous snakes, as well as against scorpion, plant and bacterial toxins...

Natural Nettles Give Cancer the Sting.

23/03/2015

A highly effective way of defeating cancerous cells...

Two before bedtime? The Sensitivity Pill

22/03/2015

Under tolcapone's influence, game players were more sensitive to and less tolerant of social inequity...

All about that Vertebral Wedging

21/03/2015

Men prefer women who exhibit specific angles of spinal curvature over buttock mass...

At it like rabbits? Kids, Vids and Sex

20/03/2015

As the portrayal of women as objects of lust reflects patriarchal values, media images that support this type of male dominance may provoke resistance in female viewers....

Bicarbo-load for Better Vision

19/03/2015

By opposing the effect of light, bicarbonate limits the size of the photon response and quickens its recovery...

Schizophrenic? Check your fingers, chaps.

18/03/2015

Asymmetry has a potential utility as a diagnostic test in determining the presence of schizophrenia...

Tilting trees for better biofuel

15/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”Y/dropcapou’re gonna BURN, you beech! Take 2: You’re gonna Burn, you birch! Why the willow wept…. Imperial researchers...

Turbulent times : The Physics of Clouds

14/03/2015

Being based in London, Trebuchet gets quite a lot of practise with clouds. Next up: The physics of black nose-crust/Tube bogies? In 1941, Russian physicist Andrey Kolmogorov developed a theory of...

Live longer by spending less time alone.

13/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”U/dropcaprr hur hurr. That’s a scientific euphemism, that is. ‘Spend less time alone’. They mean ‘shagging’,...

Being laid off causes distrust for at least nine years

12/03/2015

Job losses of the recent recession could lead to a worrying level of long-term distrust...

Breaking the Galactic Speed Record

11/03/2015

The white dwarf is thought to have turned into a 'thermonuclear supernovae' and exploded...

A world of new beers! Raise a glass to the Finns

09/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”H/dropcapelsinki. Lakes. Rally drivers. Awkward silences. Prolonged awkward silences. That’s all we knew about Finland. But now...

Wipe Your Pants Down, this is gonna get sticky

08/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”T/dropcaphink of the applications! A paint that makes the coated object self-cleaning. Pure sci-fi. Wonder if you slopped it onto a vinyl if...

Yes dear, have another biscuit. Some of us have jogging to do..

07/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”T/dropcap he healthgiving power of sanctimonious smuggery – having a fit partner can make you fitter too. Although it’s probably...

Gimmie Some Space! Tracking Pedestrian Movement

06/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”D/dropcapid we need a research project measuring a general law of how pedestrians interact? Surely the simple law is : extremely slowly,...

Avoiding the Zombie Apocalypse : Where to Hold Out

05/03/2015

Zombie apocalypse. Yawn. Frankly, if the droning emo stumblemonkeys can detect brain activity on a turgid March Tuesday such as this one, they’ve earned it. Tuck in. A team of Cornell...

Dope to Tour UK with Coal Chamber [Industrial Metal]

02/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”E/dropcapxcited as we are about the chance to catch Dope live, there is also the irresistable urge to grunt ‘BIGTRUCK!’ at top...

Quantifying how much urban travel is based on social activity

01/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”O/dropcaput. There. With the germs and the filth and the encrusted detritus of human interaction and People Who Hug. Massachusetts Institute...

Not Over Yet. Traditional media fights back

28/02/2015

Despite our new-media landscape, recent research suggests that a more traditional approach forms the basis of …. tl;dr In an age where digital media is constantly changing, public relations...

Fortune favours…. Why Thinking of God Increases Bravery

27/02/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”F/dropcap or England, Harry, and Saint George…. Oh, and God. Sorry. Forgot. Oops. Reminders of God can make people more likely to seek...

Coffee Physics: Why Lattes Spill More than Americanos

26/02/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”A/dropcap coating of froth dampens wave motion in liquids. Surfers knew that already – everyone wants a nice clean wave. However, more...

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