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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Seismic Surveys Stop Sea Turtles Shagging

29/11/2015

Marine airgun noise could cause turtle trauma ...

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How Did You Expect to Die, and Did it Involve a Floating Hoover? (Row-Bot)

26/11/2015

Academics at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL) have developed the Row-bot, a robot that thrives in dirty water. ...

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Finding Your Happy Place (with MRI): the Neural Structures of Happiness

25/11/2015

Kyoto University researchers narrow in on the neural structures behind happiness...

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Republic of London? Cities Outperform Countries

23/11/2015

The economic significance of cities increases while that of countries falls ...

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THC, Or Not THC? How Danes Grow Stronger Cannabis

22/11/2015

The concentration of the euphoriant THC in cannabis has tripled in the space of 20 years...

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Reduce Racism with this Seven Minute Miracle

21/11/2015

Seven minutes of meditation can reduce racial prejudice, study finds ...

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You Thought You Were Anonymous?! What Your Video Gaming Reveals

20/11/2015

Video games can provide a wealth of useful population-level information on developmental, cognitive and psychological processes....

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Higher Crop Yields: The Famine-Busting Breakthrough You’ve Never Heard Of

19/11/2015

High yield crops a step closer in light of photosynthesis discovery ...

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Raining Blood: The Simple Explanation THEY WANT YOU TO BELIEVE!

15/11/2015

Biological science does have an explanation for blood rain, but it's not as good as the eery ones we can imagine....

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Looking for Habitable Exoplanets? Search for the Pale Orange Dot

14/11/2015

Early Earth's haze may give clue to habitability elsewhere in space ...

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Have You Stopped Beating Your Wife Lately? Lower Testosterone, and Relationships

13/11/2015

Emotionally supportive relationships linked to lower testosterone ...

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But does it WORK? The Power of Magical Thinking

12/11/2015

Even smart, educated, emotionally stable adults believe in superstitions that they recognize are unreasonable....

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Spurn Kinky Milk Goods, Vanilla Yoghurt Makes You Happy. Fact!

11/11/2015

Vanilla yogurt makes us feel happy, suggests research ...

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Slurp, Sniff, Hack, Heal. Have You Told Your Mucus You Love It?

10/11/2015

Mucus. Snot as bad as it seems. Keeping us safe and germ-free, one green bogey at a time....

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Ignore the Tube-Bogies: Public Transport is Good for Your Health

09/11/2015

Taking public transportation instead of driving linked with better health ...

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Not So Dumb-o. Leafblower Elephants Get the Goodies

08/11/2015

Elephants may use trunks like 'leaf blowers' to obtain inaccessible food ...

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Burn the Heretic! Hold the Phone! Religious People are Less Altruistic

07/11/2015

Religious upbringing associated with less altruism, study finds ...

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Rain Getting You Down? On Mars, it’s Acid Fog

06/11/2015

While Mars doesn't have much in the way of Earth-like weather, it does evidently share one kind of weird meteorology: acid fog....

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Does Shopping Local Make You Racist? (Consumer Ethnocentrism Explained)

05/11/2015

Do you buy local? Your consumer ethnocentrism may be showing ...

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25% of Londoners diagnosed with cancer at A&E dead within 9 weeks

04/11/2015

Patients diagnosed through emergency routes tend to have more advanced cancers, which contributes to a poorer prognosis....

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Male/Female Brain Differences? More Like Hackney to Hoxton than Mars to Venus

02/11/2015

Male/female brain differences? Big data says not so much ...

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Harmattan Harmonics: Why (and How) the Sand Dune Sings

01/11/2015

Physics of booming and burping sand dunes revealed ...

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Beat the Effects of Ageing by Running, Jumping and Other Sweaty Stuff

31/10/2015

The secret to a younger brain may lie in exercising your body ...

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Free Alcohol! Comet Lovejoy’s Interstellar Booze Cruise

26/10/2015

Researchers catch Comet Lovejoy giving away alcohol ...

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Crank Up the Volume for Anxiety and Depression. Aggressive Music and Mental Health

25/10/2015

Aggressive music related to anxiety in men...

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Want to Skip the Supermarket Queue? Ditch the Beer

24/10/2015

New study conducted in German supermarket tests willingness of customers to cooperate and help other customers proceed faster...

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Is This Your Next-Gen Submersible Drone? The Harvard RoboBee

23/10/2015

Harvard Microrobotics Lab develops first insect-size robot capable of flying and swimming...

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But Will There Be Fjords? The New Earths Yet to be Built

22/10/2015

Most earth-like worlds have yet to be born, according to theoretical study ...

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Who’s Putting the Nanotubes in the Air? And Why?

21/10/2015

Study of lung cells suggests nanotubes are common pollutants...

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Cereal? Not just hipster cafe-fodder, it’s also great for fat-shaming!

20/10/2015

Kitchen counter foods that relate to your weight...

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