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

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The Mechanics of Stuttering (and the beginnings of a cure)

06/01/2017

Stuttering linked to reduced blood flow in area of brain associated with language ...

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Are Sugar Free and Diet Drinks Worth It?

05/01/2017

Sugar-free and 'diet' drinks no better for healthy weight than full sugar drinks ...

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Chicken – Finger Lickin’ Caring and Intelligent

04/01/2017

Review looks at studies on chicken intelligence, social development and emotions...

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Anti-Aging Therapies – How Close is Immortality Now?

03/01/2017

Anti-aging therapies targeting senescent cells: Facts and fiction ...

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Gaze Thee Upon the Cosmic Metamaser

02/01/2017

The Hubble Space Telescope offers some seasonal images of a newly discovered Cosmic Metamaser...

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Careful Now! : When Magic Mushrooms Turn BAD

01/01/2017

Survey assesses both risky behaviors and positive outcomes of psilocybin use...

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How to Cope With Your Emotional Hangover

30/12/2016

Is there such a thing as an emotional hangover? NYU researchers find that there is ...

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Nothing New Under the Sun – How Prehistory Tackled Global Warming

29/12/2016

Computer models find ancient solutions to modern problems ...

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Facebook Lurking Makes You Miserable – Fact.

28/12/2016

Feeling blue? Taking a break from Facebook might help ...

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Drug-Producing Artificial Leaf Can Grow Paracetemol on Mars

27/12/2016

Artificial leaf serves as mini-factory for drugs ...

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We Don’t ‘Like’: Social Media and Depression

26/12/2016

Multi-social millennials are more likely to be depressed than their peers...

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Sunlight: Yes it burns, but it also boosts your immune system

25/12/2016

Sunlight offers a surprise benefit - it energizes infection fighting T cells ...

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Tracking Global Warming With Mother of Pearl : The Ocean’s Tree-Rings

24/12/2016

Ocean temperatures faithfully recorded in mother-of-pearl ...

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Tastes Like Cabbage: The Deep Origins of Cooked Veggies

23/12/2016

Earliest evidence discovered of plants cooked in ancient pottery ...

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Even Scientifically Proven News Can Be Fake News

22/12/2016

Scientific 'facts' could be false ...

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The Mental Health Trick You’ll Really Like: Saunas Against Dementia

21/12/2016

Frequent sauna bathing protects men against dementia ...

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Street Art Goes Rural: Swiss Erosion Grafitti

19/12/2016

Determining erosion rates via painting...

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Loitered Lens: Vovoid

19/12/2016

Images and inspiration from Vovoid's dissonant sonic assault at the Underworld...

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Classroom Internet Use Leads to Lower Grades

18/12/2016

Internet use in class tied to lower test scores ...

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Bustin’ Bad Cholesterol With Red Cabbage

17/12/2016

Red cabbage microgreens lower 'bad' cholesterol in animal study ...

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Soft-Touch Robotics, Coming to a Rub Shop Near You

16/12/2016

New robot has a human touch ...

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In Search of Trojan Asteroids : The Solar System’s Silent Watchers

15/12/2016

Trojan asteroids are travel companions to planets as they orbit the Sun. It's time to find them....

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Modified Sawdust Mops Up Oil Spills

14/12/2016

Sawdust reinvented into super sponge for oil spills ...

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Forget the Protestant Work Ethic. Catholics Are More Committed

13/12/2016

Baylor University research suggests Catholics are most committed to their work...

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Hi Donaldski, It’s Me, Vladski! Printing Secret Messages on an Inkjet

12/12/2016

Researchers create hidden images with commercial inkjet printers ...

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No Work-Life Laws for Sex Workers: The Modern Coalface of Discriminaton

11/12/2016

Work-life laws privilege brothel and community interests, not the workers...

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3D Print Your Own Music Career (Don’t Blame Us if it’s Short-Lived)

10/12/2016

3-D printed wind instruments in any shape or form...

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Eat Yourself Thin (by chowing revolting sweet potato waste)

09/12/2016

The secret slimming effect of sweet potato waste...

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Sorting the Wheat from the Chaff: Exposing Ancient Cereal Cultivation

08/12/2016

Prehistoric plant remains highlight diverse origins of cereal domestication ...

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WHAT Does it Say About Me?! Should Fiction Depict Real People?

07/12/2016

When artistic freedom violates somebody's privacy ...

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