Category: News

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No Mod Cons, But a Spectacular View. Where our Human Ancestors Lived

12/03/2016

Scientists piece together an early human habitat for the first time...

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What Colour is Your Ark? Global Warming Makes the Wet Wetter, and the Dry Wetter Too

11/03/2016

With global warming, not only do the wet places get wetter, but the driest areas get wetter too...

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rain

Feeling Flush? How Collecting Rainwater Could Save You Cash

10/03/2016

Drexel research looks at feasibility of rainwater recycling in 4 major US cities...

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Do You Feel Lucky? Overconfidence and Intelligence – The Link

09/03/2016

Those who think intelligence is fixed have confidence exceeding their ability...

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How Much Did YOU Save for Your Pension This Week? The Precariat Class Goes Europe-Wide

08/03/2016

New report finds Europe-wide shift towards weaker job security and employment support ...

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Here Be Treasure! Newly-Discovered Anglo Saxon Island

07/03/2016

Ornate writing tools discovered in a ploughed field lead archaeologists to entire island community...

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Can You Remember These Effects of Long Term Stress?

06/03/2016

Long-term stress erodes memory. Study in mice places blame on immune system...

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Is This Thing On? Scientists Propose New Method for Finding Extraterrestrial Life

05/03/2016

Researchers suggest a way of searching for weak signals from beyond Earth...

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What Can I Take to Help Me Lose Weight? Oh, That!

04/03/2016

Drinking more water associated with numerous dietary benefits, study finds ...

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Chill, Dude! Or Maybe Not. Cannabis Users Have Difficulty Processing Emotions

03/03/2016

Colorado State University study points to cannabis' muddling effect on emotion processing ...

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We Can Teach You That Wholesale – Learning By Transcranial Stimulation

01/03/2016

Learn how to fly a plane from expert-pilot brainwave patterns ...

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Screw Your Noisy Drone, We’ve Got Electric Bubbles! MIT Make Ultra Lightweight Solar Cell

29/02/2016

MIT develop thinnest and lightest solar cells ever ...

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Will Driverless Cars Mean More Congestion?

28/02/2016

Driverless cars could increase reliance on roads ...

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Was Medieval France (even partly) Islamic? New Evidence Suggests So

27/02/2016

Evidence of likely early medieval Muslim graves found in France ...

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Keep Those Leg-Hinges Smooth and Silky with Knee Botox

24/02/2016

Researchers use Botox-like injection to treat runners and cyclists with knee pain ...

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It’s Balls, Not Smears. New Experiment Plots Quantum Surrealism

23/02/2016

Scientists succeed at measuring the unmeasurable - demonstrating quantum forces without disturbing them. ...

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industry

The Weird Cause of Obesity You NEVER Imagined

22/02/2016

Exposure to air pollution increases the risk of obesity ...

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First Look at the Stretchable nano-scale device That’ll Soon Be in Your Contact Lenses

21/02/2016

Researchers create a stretchable nano-scale device to manipulate light...

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Digital Practise Makes Reality Perfect. Yes, motion-controlled video games help you learn.

20/02/2016

Motion-controlled video games may improve real world skills ...

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Give Me Fifty, or I’ll Give You Zilch. Workplace wellness gets nasty

19/02/2016

Withholding incentives is a more effective motivation than guaranteed rewards, when pushing employees to exercise...

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Fracking Earthquakes are Only the Start – Wait Till You See What it Does to Your Water Supply

17/02/2016

Stanford University expert on the health impacts of fossil fuels studies groundwater quality at oil and gas fields...

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Are You Being Servo’d? Cybathlon: The Olympics of Assistive Technologies

16/02/2016

A global Olympic-style competition to advance assistive & robotic technologies...

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Smile, Or You’re on Report. How Your Wellness Can Pay For Your Manager’s Ski Trip

15/02/2016

How to increase employee wellness and motivation by tying 10% of managerial salary increases to health initiatives...

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If You’d Like Less Brain Volume, Press the Red Button Now.

14/02/2016

Neurologists suggest that poor physical fitness in middle age may be linked to a smaller brain size later on....

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Got some spinifex on ya, cock? Bio-Engineering Superthin Condoms

13/02/2016

Fibers from the Australian native spinifex grass are being used to improve latex that could be used to make condoms as thin as a human hair without any loss in strength...

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The Celestial Time Capsule is Your Chance to Send a Message into Space

11/02/2016

Artistic space odyssey to broadcast people's messages to the stars ...

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Maybe Practise Makes Perfect, But Perfect Makes Enemies.

10/02/2016

Everyone hates a know-all. Seeing exemplary peer work can undermine student performance ...

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What do People Think About Climate Engineering? The answer may surprise you

09/02/2016

New tool for gauging public opinion reveals skepticism of climate engineering ...

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Could This Be the Invention that Fixes Everything? CO2 as Sustainable Fuel

08/02/2016

Carbon dioxide captured from air converted directly to methanol fuel for the first time ...

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Breaking: New Zealand Invaded (by Little Penguins)

07/02/2016

New Zealand's little penguins are recent Australian invaders ...

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