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The Rise of Smell-Based Marketing and Why Scents Sell

12/09/2015

People remember 35% of what they smell, compared with only 5% of what they see, 2% of what they hear and 1% of what they touch....

Twisted Theory. Unravelling the Mechanics of Knots

10/09/2015

New model predicts the force required to tie simple knots....

They’re Floaty Light! Levitating Glowing Nanodiamonds

09/09/2015

Researchers use laser to levitate glowing nanodiamonds in vacuum ...

On Thin Ice. What Will Polar Bears Eat After Global Warming?

08/09/2015

Polar bears marooned on land might, where the conditions are right, stave off starvation by turning to alternate food sources....

Sunshine on a Rainy Day : Splitting Water Molecules for Clean Energy

07/09/2015

Rice University researchers demo solar water-splitting technology ...

Energy for You, Energy for Your Car : Storing Fuel in Coffee Grounds

06/09/2015

Scientists have developed a simple process to treat waste coffee grounds to allow them to store methane...

Even Sitting Still, Police are Prone to Injury

05/09/2015

Police at risk of traffic injuries in stopped cars, as well as when speeding, study finds ...

Are You Next? Fizzy Drinks and Cardiac Arrest : The Link

04/09/2015

Carbonated drinks linked with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest of cardiac origin ...

Staging a Skyfall : How to Bring Down a Satellite

02/09/2015

Controlled Skyfall - How to get rid of a satellite after its retirement ...

More Cash, Less Ash. Raising pay can reduce smoking rates

01/09/2015

Raising pay can reduce smoking rates ...

Want more Female IT Professionals? Make Computer Rooms Less Geeky

31/08/2015

University of Washington set about working out how to make IT classrooms less daunting...

More Women at Work, More Murders. Gender Equality and Homicide Increase

30/08/2015

The greater a country's gender equality in employment, the higher its homicide rate ...

We Can Predict that For You Wholesale? Murder Forecasting hits real life.

28/08/2015

New knowledge about murderers who commit what is called spontaneous domestic homicide...

Napoleon Complex: Are Weaklings more violent than Macho Men?

27/08/2015

Insecure men are more likely to commit violent assaults with weapons and to cause injury if they feel others see them in this light too....

Boozy Baby Boomers: The Dangerous Drinking Habits of the Over 65s

26/08/2015

One in five older people who drink alcohol are consuming it at unsafe levels - over 21 units of alcohol for men and 14 units for women each week - according to a study by King's College London. ...

Soul-Gazing: Charting The Daily Ebb and Flow of Spiritual Awareness

25/08/2015

'Sometimes the situation you are in affects your spiritual awareness. Other times your spiritual awareness affects the situation you're in.'...

No Passion for Your Job? Don’t Worry, We Can Supply That.

24/08/2015

People who have not found their perfect fit in a career can take heart: There is more than one way to attain passion for work....

Smartmouthed Kids get the Grades: Vocabulary & Academic Achievement

23/08/2015

Two-year-old children with larger oral vocabularies enter U.S. kindergarten classrooms better at reading and mathematics...

Some Ecological GOOD News. Reclaiming Oil-Damaged Soil

22/08/2015

We proved we can remove all the bad actors and all the contaminants and at the same time have a final product with agricultural value...

Does Having Racially Diverse Friends Boost Your Career? Oh Yes

21/08/2015

Employees with a racially diverse group of friends outside of work may actually perform better at their jobs, a new study suggests....

White-Collar Junk: The Rise of Prescribed Opiate Addiction

20/08/2015

While most opiate addicts are still addicted to only painkillers, the number of addicts using heroin and the number of users who are addicted to both painkillers and heroin are increasing faster than...

Brain and Brawn : Higher Intelligence Improves Physical Performance

18/08/2015

New research reveals a distinct association between male intelligence in early adulthood and their subsequent midlife physical performance....

The Internet Told Me! Wikipedia Research Subject to Information Sabotage

17/08/2015

When researching acid rain, evolution, and climate change -- cast a critical eye on source material...

Evolution’s Double Throw : Beer Yeast

16/08/2015

The crucial genetic mashup that spawned the yeast that brews the vast majority of beer occurred at least twice -- and both times without human help...