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Lose Weight Fast, Barbecue Yourself Slim

07/08/2015

The metabolism of the fat samples, the makeup of the fat cells and the patients' resting metabolic rates were measured....

Dopey Olds and their Role in Child Development

06/08/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”A/dropcapcting like a witless idiot whilst looking after your children gives a positive boost to their development. Which is why new parents...

One Lump or Two? How Sugar Makes Caffeine Clump

04/08/2015

New insights into the way in which caffeine, sugar and water interact at the molecular level to affect the taste of hot beverages....

Betwixt the Body and the Brain. Why Stress Makes Your Body Tired

03/08/2015

The brain is just like any other biological tissue, it can be overused and can suffer from fatigue...

Tomorrow’s Detox Diet Today : Chimpanzee Clay Chewing

02/08/2015

Chimps have recently started to boost the minerals in their diet by eating the clay which also helps them 'detox' and digest their food....

You Can Go Your Own Way (But You Won’t). Social Behaviour and Majority Rule

01/08/2015

The more diversity there is in behaviour, the more likely people are to copy the majority....

Decision Frames : How Retailers Influence Your Pizza Order

31/07/2015

Explaining the way people decide to customize their food orders and the implications for retailers and customers alike....

Live Long and Jump High : Seaworld’s Killer Whales Don’t Die Young

30/07/2015

This article represents the first peer-reviewed publication that directly compares reproductive and survivorship patterns between captive and wild killer whales...

Sleep Tight, Make Memories Bright

29/07/2015

The beneficial impact of sleep on memory is well established, and the act of sleeping is known to help us remember the things that we did, or heard, the previous day...

Horny by name, not by nature. Breeding the Colorado Bighorn

27/07/2015

The health of Colorado's bighorn sheep population remains as precarious as the steep alpine terrain the animals inhabit...

Well-preserved or Just Pickled? Old Age and Harmful Drinking

26/07/2015

Harmful drinking in later life is more prevalent among people who exhibit a lifestyle associated with affluence and with a 'successful' ageing process...

Reduced Circumstances = Reduced Emissions? CO2 and the Financial Crisis

25/07/2015

The 11 percent decrease in climate change-causing carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. between 2007 and 2013 was caused by the global financial recession - not the reduced use of coal...

Phobic? Learn Something New For Fear Management

24/07/2015

It is not only important to break the links between environmental cues and fear, but also to substitute new learning about safety for further fear management....

Wood Stress and Woodquakes. How Hard is Your Wood?

23/07/2015

The sound we hear when we listen to wood is analogous to seismic waves released by earthquakes. Examining wood stress, fundamentally, at last....

Luis Lamar, Woods Hood Oceanographic Institution feature size

Pirates (near) the Caribbean? Centuries-Old Shipwreck Discovered

22/07/2015

Our accidental find illustrates the rewards -- and the challenge and uncertainty -- of working in the deep ocean," ...

goby by Carole Baldwin and Ross Robertson, Smithsonian Institution

Meet the Deepwater Goby Fish that Science Missed

22/07/2015

By thoroughly investigating reef ecosystems that lie just below shallow coral reefs, describing new species, documenting depth ranges of new and known species, we are providing the baseline...

What Were the Skies Like Before Fossil Fuels?

21/07/2015

"Life in the ocean has a big effect on clouds," said co-author Dennis Hartmann, a UW professor of atmospheric sciences....

Coaches Can Help Prevent Sports Injuries

20/07/2015

Teaching coaches about the prevention of sports injuries and contact restrictions pays off, say researchers who tracked injury rates among youth football players...

Too Much Telly Gets Your Toddler… Bullied?!

19/07/2015

The toddler 's TV watching habits were reported by their parents and their victimization in grade 6 was self-reported by the children themselves....

Why Do You Notice Human Screams, But Not Jetplanes?

17/07/2015

Screaming really works," Poeppel says. "It is one of the earliest sounds that everyone makes...

Photocatalytic reactor by Fariborz Haghighat

Cleaners that Kill

17/07/2015

Imagine if, in an effort to clean the air more efficiently, you were involuntarily introducing chemicals more dangerous than the ones you were trying to scrub. ...

All About the Self Esteem? Obese Teens in Denial

16/07/2015

an increasing number of overweight adolescents do not consider themselves as obese teens....

Carola Petersen, Hinrich Schulenburg, Kiel University

Highway Slime : Worms Hitchhike on (and in) Slugs

15/07/2015

Worms invaded the guts of slugs, survived and proliferated within the intestines, and were subsequently excreted alive with the slug feces....

Seeking (and finding) the Soft-Bodied Jumping Robot

14/07/2015

By seamlessly blending soft and rigid body parts -- a structural innovation used by animals and insects -- a team of Harvard scientists has created a new kind of durable, soft-bodied jumping robot...

Do Men Feel Threatened By Female Bosses?

13/07/2015

In three experiments, Netchaeva and her co-authors discovered that men feel more threatened when they answer to female bosses....

Can Windfarms Hurt You… With Bass Sounds?

12/07/2015

an international team of experts dealt with the fundamentals of hearing in the lower limit range of the audible frequency range (i.e. infrasound), but also in the upper limit range (i.e. ultrasound)....

Magnetosphere Waves by Credits S. Kavosi/J. Raeder/UNH

Magnetosphere Waves Look Perfectly Surfable

11/07/2015

Magnetosphere waves : two recently published papers highlight these shapely waves at the boundaries of near-Earth space....

Goat Meat, The Meat on the Street, We Love to Eat

10/07/2015

Goat meat is becoming more popular in America, and in large part it's been due to the desire of immigrants to retain the tastes and preferences of their country of origin...

Smartphone App Says ‘Go Home, You’re Drunk’

09/07/2015

The Alcohol Tracker smartphone app enables users to log the number of beers/shots/glasses of wine they have knocked back on a given day which it then tots up for them in units...