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

tired angel

Synchronous Oscillations: Are You Actually Awake?

06/12/2016

Portions of the brain fall asleep and wake back up all the time...

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Anger

What Does Anger Sound Like to Children?

05/12/2016

Researchers pair acoustical analysis with brain mapping to understand how children process emotion in speech...

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pharmaceutical psilocybin

Return Trip? Magic Mushrooms and Cancer

04/12/2016

Psilocybin relieves anxiety and depression in patients with advanced cancer ...

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The Unexpected Healing Power of Platypus Venom

03/12/2016

Platypus venom could hold key to diabetes treatment ...

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Blue Whales, shipping

Don’t Tell the Japanese. New Ways of Tracking Blue Whales

02/12/2016

New forecast tool helps ships avoid blue whale hotspots ...

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acoustics

Why ‘Put the bin out’ Sounds Like ‘Open a Beer’. Gender and Vocal Attractiveness

30/11/2016

New research suggests that men and women perceive consonants differently...

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Have an Ice Day: Lake Ecologists Consider the Winter Season

29/11/2016

Study finds life under the ice is vibrant, complex and surprisingly active...

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sad dog

That Time You Went Away? Your Dogs Remember

28/11/2016

Your dogs are paying attention and they'll remember...

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Check Your Pants! This Ethiopian Ant Could Conquer the World

27/11/2016

New dominant ant species discovered in Ethiopia shows potential for global invasion ...

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winter, walking on Ice

Born Slippy? These Boots Were(n’t) Made For Walking on Ice (Ice Baby)

26/11/2016

Most winter boots are too slippery to walk safely on icy surfaces. The Shame!...

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Transgenic grass

Greening the Battlefields (but destroying the planet?) with Transgenic Grass

25/11/2016

New grasses neutralize toxic pollution from bombs, explosives, and munitions ...

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good dads

Good Dads Make Happy Kids (and they don’t even need to clean up)

24/11/2016

How new fathers see themselves in child's early years seems to be most influential on kids' later life...

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musical training

Musical Training Combats ADHD in Kids

23/11/2016

Musical training creates new brain connections in children ...

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hulk, masculine norms

Are You Dying to Keep Up With Masculine Norms?

22/11/2016

Men who adhere to masculine norms risk mental health problems...

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Walnuts

Want Smart and Legal Mood-Enhancement (for Men)? Read On

21/11/2016

The key to a better mood for young men is found in walnuts...

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No, Really. You Definitely Won’t Guess What’s Cooling the Arctic

20/11/2016

An unexpected ally in the fight against climate change. ...

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Uncombable Hair

First World Problems: Decoding the Uncombable Hair Gene

19/11/2016

Uncombable hair gene discovered ...

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nature's roundest thing

Are YOU Nature’s Roundest Thing?

18/11/2016

Max Planck Institute scholars answer the question: what is the roundest thing in the universe?...

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Girl and highland cow

Cow Goes Moo: Disney’s Artificial Intelligence Project Gets Ears

17/11/2016

Artificial intelligence-based system associates images with sounds ...

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subtropical rainfall

Get the Washing In! New Projections for Subtropical Rainfall

16/11/2016

Study finds less gloomy outlook for subtropical rainfall ...

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magnetic resonance imaging

Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Ham – A Touch TOO Heston?

14/11/2016

Magnetic Resonance Imaging to predict the salt content of Iberian ham ...

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Meteorites Show Martian Drought Was Long-Lived

13/11/2016

Mars is incredibly dry, and has been that way for millions of years....

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Life: Crawling Along for 3.2 Billion Years.

09/11/2016

Life took hold on land 300 million years earlier than thought ...

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earworms

Earworms: A Guide to Making Them, And Getting Rid of Them

06/11/2016

Why some songs get stuck in your head ...

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pumpkin star

Happy Hallowe’en From NASA, With a Bunch of Pumpkin Stars

31/10/2016

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”T/dropcapopical news from NASA couldn’t be more timely on this Hallowe’en day. They’ve found a bunch of stars that look...

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Forget Hornby, How About 3D Printing the Universe?

30/10/2016

Physicists make it possible to 3-D print your own baby universe ...

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Pacific spiny dogfish shark

Born Slippy: The Freaky Chemistry of the Pacific Spiny Dogfish Shark

29/10/2016

How sharks recycle toxic ammonia to keep their skin moist ...

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edible insects

Tastes Like Chicken? Wiggly Meat and the Rise of Edible Insects

28/10/2016

The buzz about edible bugs: Can they replace beef? ...

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FastFags: Growing More Tobacco, Quicker Tobacco

27/10/2016

Scientists at MIPT beat the clock by quickly finding out what makes plants tick...

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Autumn leaves

Is That Russet, Vermillion or Pheophytin A? The Science of Autumn

26/10/2016

Mendel's Stay-Green gene encodes an enzyme that extracts magnesium from chlorophyll, colouring our Autumn vistas...

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