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

Exoplanet search

Yes, But Will There be Broadband? New Advances Improve Exoplanet Search

15/04/2016

New tool refines exoplanet search ...

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Pin it, ‘Gram it, Tweet it. The Social Media Method for Predicting Gentrification

14/04/2016

Social media research methods could predict the influx of affluent newcomers to otherwise deprived areas...

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car crash

Can We Trust Autonomous Cars Yet?

13/04/2016

To figure out if autonomous cars are safe, alternative testing methods are needed, RAND report finds....

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Elastic Bandage and Titanium Screws: Counting the Cost of Skateboard Injuries

12/04/2016

Study finds skateboarding sent about 176 youths to US Emergency departments every day ...

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Wedding rings

What You Need to Survive Cancer (or at least shift the odds in your favour)

11/04/2016

How marriage, race and ethnicity and birthplace affect cancer survival ...

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suicidal clown

Like Drugs? Like Booze? You May Have a Heightened Suicide Risk

10/04/2016

Simultaneous cocaine and alcohol use linked to heightened suicide risk ...

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Hoops or Alphabetti? Tracing the evolutionary history of wheat, for better pasta

09/04/2016

Wild and landrace varieties along with genetic diversity are the keys to improving wheat's nutritional value...

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What Colour are Action Man’s Pants? If You Know, You’ll Probably Want One of These

07/04/2016

Touching this robot can elicit physiological arousal in humans ...

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Forget Lipstick on the Collar, Viral Tracking Reveals Exactly Where You’ve Been

05/04/2016

Your viruses could reveal your travel history, and more ...

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Nepali Mask

Do You Have a Postcode for that, Sir? Archaeologists Discover Outer Reaches of the Silk Road

04/04/2016

Nepali textile find suggests Silk Road extended further south than previously thought ...

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Can Email Responses Predict You’re Personality? You Bet.

03/04/2016

Personality influences how one reacts to email errors ...

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mind-wandering, daydream

Creative Mind-Wandering or Disastrous Zone-Out, Which do You Do?

02/04/2016

Whether your mind-wandering is intentional or accidental makes a difference to how useful it is...

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What’s the Point of Men? The Twofold Cost of Sex

01/04/2016

The existence of males is of enormous cost to a species, so why does nature tolerate them?...

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earthquake

No Fracking Wonder. Earthquakes linked to Hydraulic Fracturing

31/03/2016

Fracking - not wastewater disposal - linked to most induced earthquakes in Western Canada ...

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No Nookie for the Picky: How Sexual Perfectionism Puts Women Off

30/03/2016

When women feel their partner demands perfection, sex life suffers ...

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Technoboffins Rejoice! Phone-based laser rangefinder works outdoors

29/03/2016

Depth sensor built from off-the-shelf parts filters out ambient infrared light...

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Skua by Yeong-Deok Han620

How to Make Friends, Influence People, and Get Given Fish: Antarctic Birds Learn to Recognize Humans

28/03/2016

How brown skuas, which evolved and lived in human-free habitats, recognized individual humans just after 3 or 4 visits...

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headstone

Can Your Name Shorten Your Life? Um…Kinda.

27/03/2016

What's in a name? In some cases, longer life ...

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Empathic pain

The Wince Test. How to Tell if You Suffer From Empathic Pain

26/03/2016

Emotions consist of general components that are also elicited by similar impressions and specific components...

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High intesity training

Too Much, Too Soon. How High Intensity Training Could Hurt You

25/03/2016

Warning: High-intensity training could hurt you if you're not an athlete ...

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Peaty Pinots and Gamay in the Gloaming. Global Warming Moves Wine Regions North

24/03/2016

Global warming pushes wines into uncharted terroir ...

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seagull

Useless Old Holiday Photos? Not quite. Tourist Snaps Show a Rise in Seabirds

23/03/2016

Old tourist photos show a rise in seabirds over the last century ...

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The 1-400 by Terry Kerby, Hawai'i Undersea Research Laboratory University of Hawai'i620

Scuttled, Sunk and, er, Mislaid. The Wreck of the 1-400 Mega-Submarine

22/03/2016

Bronze bell recovered from World War II aircraft-carrying submarine off Oahu coast ...

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A Computational Tool to Tame Golf’s SCARIEST Drive

21/03/2016

Computer simulations may help golfers tame the sport's 'scariest 155 yards' ...

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tomatoes

Can the Clean Fuel Movement Ketch Up With Florida’s Tomato Battery?

18/03/2016

Creative thinkers in Florida develop an innovative use for waste material - the tomato battery...

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The Cutpurse Code. Hidden Messages in England’s Oldest Printed Bible

17/03/2016

Historian uncovers secrets of the Reformation hidden in England's oldest printed bible ...

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sentimental purchases

How Much for a Booty Call?! The Danger of Sentimental Purchases

16/03/2016

Beware the dewy-eyed late-night online shopping session. Love trumps budget in sentimental buys....

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Window, curtains

Come to the Dark Side with Turnable Windows

15/03/2016

Inspired by frozen ponds, Harvard becomes the latest Ivy League powerhouse to address the always-vexing problem of window light...

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Hokkusai wave

The Other Kind of Twitterstorm. Using Social Media for Natural Disaster Assessment

14/03/2016

Could social networks used in the assessment of damage caused by natural disasters?...

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A Lesson in Hubris? Using Statistics to Predict Extreme Waves

13/03/2016

Crunching the stats to predict ship-crunching ocean events...

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