Author: Trebuchet News

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Internet Addiction Afflicts 6%

The prevalence of Internet addiction varies among regions around the world...

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Tanned Pilots : The Secret

Airline pilots can be exposed to cockpit radiation similar to tanning beds...

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Easter Islanders’ Fuzzy Teeth Reveal Moai Mystery

Hardened plaque from ancient teeth is helping resolve the question of what plant foods Easter Islanders relied on before European contact....

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Do You Speak Cow?

Studying the ways cows communicate with their young, carefully examining acoustic indicators of identity and age...

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Nuclear Isotopes Show Where The Life Is

How star dust - the remnants of exploded stars - plays a role in the formation of life-supporting planets...

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Happy CEOs Make Bigger Profits

Managers whose language displays an optimistic state of mind are more likely to have a positive influence on their firm's position in the market. ...

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Hovver Bovver

The first time researchers have directly measured the impact of moving visual patterns on free flight in birds. ...

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Office Jerks and their Uses

People do not need to be jerks to have fresh ideas. However, such an attitude helps when you want to steamroll your ideas so that others will accept them...

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Carrot or Stick, Which Works?

A "first carrot, then stick" policy can drive cooperation toward a specific goal...

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How Red Wine Stops Cancer

By alcohol source, the lowest cancer incidence is in people who drank red wine...

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Reduce Stress? Check Your Email…. Less.

Easing up on email checking can help reduce psychological stress....

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Breastfeeding Could Save NHS Millions

The NHS could save more than £40 million a year by increasing the length of time that mothers breastfeed...

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Dislocated Shoulder : What *Not* To Do

We do not recommend self-setting of shoulder dislocations...

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Too Much Memory : Data and the Ageing Brain

Older individuals take in more at the same time as the stability of their visual perceptual learning declines....

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Milk’s Longterm Human Legacy

The milk of all three major dairy livestock--cattle, sheep and goats--has been consumed by human populations for at least 5,000 years...

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Exhuming Vampires in Poland. No, REALLY!

Potential 'vampires' buried in northwestern Poland with sickles and rocks across their bodies were likely local and not immigrants to the region...

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Dogs : They Hear Ya

Dogs react to both verbal and speaker-related information and that these components appear to be processed in different areas of the dog's brain...

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Bigger WiFi, Broader Broadband

New WLAN networks might reach communication partners at a distance of several kilometers....

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Fingernails for Stem Cells

Nails: the right signals or environmental cues could induce nail stem cells to generate additional types of tissue. Report...

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Blitzing Your Baggage: Terahertz Screening

Screening devices using terahertz waves could make public spaces more secure than ever. Report...

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Is Screenburn Hereditary?

Screen time of children is significantly associated with parental screen time...

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Transatlantic Ash Cloud Chaos Imminent

Another ash-cloud drama could be imminent, this time with consequences for trans-Atlantic as well as European travel. Report...

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Teach Yourself to Hear Purple

A nine-week training programme sees if adults without synaesthesia can develop the key hallmarks of the condition. Report...

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Givin’ it Some Verbal. Office Abuse by Gender

Among the studies that show significant differences, a majority conclude that men are more at risk (11 studies) than women (5 studies)....

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Fighting Obesity with Coffee

Coffee consumption may lower the risk for chronic diseases like Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease...

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Kissy Kissy Icky Icky – The Microbiology of Snogging

Researchers calculate that about 80 million bacteria are transferred during a 10 second kiss...

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Cold Feet and Garlic Bread – The Hidden Link

The mechanism in that creates the connection between cold and pain is the same receptor that reacts to the pungent substances in mustard and garlic....

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Different Gender, Different Words. How Mothers Talk to Kids

Parent-child conversations are gendered, with mothers talking more expressively to their daughters than their sons. Report...

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Are You ‘Beat Deaf’?

Beat-deafness, though very rare, is a problem not simply of how people feel a pulse or move their bodies, but instead, how people synchronize with sounds they hear....

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Dub No Bike With My Head – Dublin Resists Bikes

Participants thought traveling by bike was inconvenient, dangerous, and too hard to deal with in a wet climate...

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