Category: News

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is! – Anne Frank

self-esteem

Count Yourself Confident! Self-Esteem in Numbers

13/11/2017

Discovered: The equation that can map self esteem in the brain...

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accelerated evolution

Mega-Rats! Does Accelerated Living = Accelerated Evolution?

10/11/2017

Explosion of rats, clovers, bedbugs, mosquitoes unintended evolutionary consequence of urbanization...

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solar greenhouse

Don’t Throw Stones! Inside the Smart Solar Greenhouse

09/11/2017

Solar greenhouses generate electricity and grow healthy crops ...

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The Trump Effect: Blaming Liberals for Ecology

08/11/2017

Rise of populism affects wildlife management in US ...

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Avoiding Mouldy Wine? Nature Knows Best

07/11/2017

Wild grape yeast could be more effective than pesticides in preventing grape molds ...

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Career Goals? Hic! Booze and Weed Hold Teens Back

06/11/2017

Booze and pot use in teens lessens life success ...

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green spaces

Want More Attentive Kids? Get Them to the Green Spaces

31/10/2017

Living close to green spaces is associated with better attention in children ...

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crash

Self-Crashing Cars: Tweaking the Glitches on Transport’s Future

30/10/2017

First white-box testing model finds thousands of errors in self-driving cars ...

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Cannabis seedling

Smoke Weed, Get More Action. The Science

27/10/2017

Regular marijuana use linked to more sex, Stanford study finds ...

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mandala, psychedelic drugs

Psychedelic Drugs: Could they Actually LOWER Crime?

26/10/2017

New study suggests psychedelic drugs may reduce criminal behavior ...

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handguns

Drop and Roll: 3 Million Americans Carry Handguns

25/10/2017

Most American gun-carriers are male, and cite protection as their primary reason...

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Good News: We Can Terraform Mars. Bad News: It’ll Stink

24/10/2017

A mission to Mars could make its own oxygen thanks to plasma technology ...

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habitiable worlds

Winnowing the Chaff for Improved Planet-Hunting

23/10/2017

New NASA study improves search for habitable worlds ...

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Brexit and food

Broccoli: Love it? Hate it? Shut Up and Eat It.

20/10/2017

Broccoli: Because a windy butt's better than a leaky gut...

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How do YOU want to die early? Stress or Bad Diet?

19/10/2017

Stress might be just as unhealthy as junk food to digestive system ...

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desalination

Desalination: Cleaner, Better Ways to Turn Deserts Green

18/10/2017

MIT researchers tackle what happens when the river runs dry...

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psilocybin, magic mushrooms

Ctrl+Alt+Psilocibin: How Magic Mushrooms Reset Depressed Brains

17/10/2017

Magic mushrooms may 'reset' the brains of depressed patients ...

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New Found Glory

Loitered Lens: New Found Glory

16/10/2017

South Florida's New Found Glory drench the Kentish Town Forum with All American Sweat - Photos...

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new ichthyosaur species

Who Left the Ichthyosaur in The Storeroom Again?

14/10/2017

New ichthyosaur species, long gone, found in a storeroom ...

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American Fears

War? Famine? A Second Term of Trump? America’s Top Ten Fears

12/10/2017

Chapman University releases 4th annual Survey of American Fears ...

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cardiac health

Don’t Go Breaking My Heart: The Cardiac Effects of Marriage Breakdown

11/10/2017

Risk factors for heart health linked to marital ups and downs - at least for men ...

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Five Ways to Minimize the Damage Done by Energy Drinks

10/10/2017

Identifying ways to minimize the harm of energy drinks ...

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Stone Age Swipe Right: The Truth About Prehistoric Dating

09/10/2017

Prehistoric humans are likely to have formed mating networks to avoid inbreeding ...

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Higher retirement age

Worked to Death: Does a Higher Retirement Age Really Save Money?

07/10/2017

As retirement age creeps up, the health of those close to retirement is getting worse ...

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Mummy’s Boy/Daddy’s Girl, or the Opposite? Do Dads Favour Sons?

05/10/2017

Do mothers favor daughters and fathers favor sons? ...

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A Proper Brew: Lose Weight With Black Tea Too!

04/10/2017

New UCLA study shows that polyphenols in black tea can alter gut bacteria...

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Meh…Zzz. Why Do We Fall Asleep When We’re Bored?

03/10/2017

Explaining our inescapable desire to sleep in boring situations...

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coffee, espresso

Are You Working Too Hard to Drink Coffee?!

02/10/2017

Despite the physical boost it brings, over a quarter of workers say they have no time to drink coffee...

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surgical screw made of bone by © surgebright

Turning ‘Ol Sawbones to ‘Ol Screwbones

29/09/2017

Making surgical screws from bones ...

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stochastic resonance

Sculpting Noise for Better Electronics

28/09/2017

Creative use of noise brings bio-inspired electronic improvement ...

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