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Reduce Stress? Check Your Email…. Less.

Easing up on email checking can help reduce psychological stress....

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Breastfeeding Could Save NHS Millions

The NHS could save more than £40 million a year by increasing the length of time that mothers breastfeed...

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Dislocated Shoulder : What *Not* To Do

We do not recommend self-setting of shoulder dislocations...

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Too Much Memory : Data and the Ageing Brain

Older individuals take in more at the same time as the stability of their visual perceptual learning declines....

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Milk’s Longterm Human Legacy

The milk of all three major dairy livestock--cattle, sheep and goats--has been consumed by human populations for at least 5,000 years...

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Exhuming Vampires in Poland. No, REALLY!

Potential 'vampires' buried in northwestern Poland with sickles and rocks across their bodies were likely local and not immigrants to the region...

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A Sound So Loud it Bends Light

The novel device platform could improve wireless communications systems using optical fibers ...

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Dogs : They Hear Ya

Dogs react to both verbal and speaker-related information and that these components appear to be processed in different areas of the dog's brain...

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Bigger WiFi, Broader Broadband

New WLAN networks might reach communication partners at a distance of several kilometers....

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Fingernails for Stem Cells

Nails: the right signals or environmental cues could induce nail stem cells to generate additional types of tissue. Report...

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Blitzing Your Baggage: Terahertz Screening

Screening devices using terahertz waves could make public spaces more secure than ever. Report...

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Is Screenburn Hereditary?

Screen time of children is significantly associated with parental screen time...

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Transatlantic Ash Cloud Chaos Imminent

Another ash-cloud drama could be imminent, this time with consequences for trans-Atlantic as well as European travel. Report...

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Teach Yourself to Hear Purple

A nine-week training programme sees if adults without synaesthesia can develop the key hallmarks of the condition. Report...

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Givin’ it Some Verbal. Office Abuse by Gender

Among the studies that show significant differences, a majority conclude that men are more at risk (11 studies) than women (5 studies)....

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Fighting Obesity with Coffee

Coffee consumption may lower the risk for chronic diseases like Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease...

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Kissy Kissy Icky Icky – The Microbiology of Snogging

Researchers calculate that about 80 million bacteria are transferred during a 10 second kiss...

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Cold Feet and Garlic Bread – The Hidden Link

The mechanism in that creates the connection between cold and pain is the same receptor that reacts to the pungent substances in mustard and garlic....

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Different Gender, Different Words. How Mothers Talk to Kids

Parent-child conversations are gendered, with mothers talking more expressively to their daughters than their sons. Report...

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Are You ‘Beat Deaf’?

Beat-deafness, though very rare, is a problem not simply of how people feel a pulse or move their bodies, but instead, how people synchronize with sounds they hear....

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Dub No Bike With My Head – Dublin Resists Bikes

Participants thought traveling by bike was inconvenient, dangerous, and too hard to deal with in a wet climate...

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All Speed, No Control. Daft Beetles

To take the sprinting gold from the tiger beetle, a person would have to hit 480 miles per hour....

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From the Frozen Aisle : One Entire Bison

The Yukagir bison mummy, as it is named, has a complete brain, heart, blood vessels and digestive system...

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Leaders Need to Look Healthy, Not Intelligent

It it always pays for aspiring leaders to look healthy...

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Beer Without Biff : Putting the Flavour Back in Alcohol-Free

Beer: making 'alcohol-free' varieties more palatable for the consumer...

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Resveratrol Doubts

Resveratrol supplementation may actually oppose the effects of exercise...

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Newly-Observed Planet-Forming Binary System

Observations on a planet-forming system which is only a few million years old and lies about 450 light-years from Earth...

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Milk : Nature’s Stinking Fraud

A high milk intake in women and men is not accompanied by a lower risk of fracture and instead may be associated with a higher rate of death...

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Big Mofo Tortoises Boss the Galapagos

A population of endangered giant tortoises, which once dwindled to just over a dozen, has recovered on the Galapagos island of Español...

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I Am Glacier, Hear Me Sing

Individual icequakes at the glacier base can exhibit harmonic properties....

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