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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

More Pain Relief = Shorter Hospital Stays

Better pain control could potentially improve sleep duration...

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Female Domination is in the DNA

Female populations have been larger than male populations throughout human history...

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Stop Snakeoil Sports Sponsorship

For sponsors, event endorsement conveys the message that their products are integral to sporting engagement and achievement. ...

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Kids’ Play Needs No Goals

Children's perspectives are rarely taken into account within public health, although they have social and scientific value....

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Moony Miranda around Uranus

Miranda appears to have experienced an episode of intense resurfacing that resulted in the formation of at least three remarkable and unique surface features...

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RIP : George Hamilton IV

Country music legend George Hamilton IV has died aged 77 of a heart attack in Nashville, Tennessee...

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Mushroom Roulette : Is Your Porcini Really Porcini?

Mushrooms are one the most conspicuous and well known groups of Fungi and make up around 16,000 named species, but only a handful of these species are well documented....

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Favourite Children and Drug Abuse

It's not just how you treat them differently, but how your kids perceive i...

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Soft Robot Develops Independent Action

Researchers tested the robot in snow, submerged it in water, walked it through flames, and even ran it over with a car, and after each experiment, it walked away unscathed....

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How Germs Move and How to Stop ‘Em

A simple intervention can greatly help to reduce exposure to viruses...

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Baker’s Wheeze : Flour and Asthma

Occupational Asthma: Where people are being exposed to harmful agents and who is most likely to be affected. Report...

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Crowdsourcing and the Trolls

Malicious behaviour is the norm in crowdsourcing competitions — even when it is in everyone's interest to cooperate...

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Winning Is Boring

Winning isn't everything, and in fact can even be a bit boring....

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Cotton Beats Polyester in Stink Tests

Polyester clothes smell worse than cotton, following intensive exercise by their wearers....

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Do Stuff, Not *Have* Stuff = Happy

People thinking about impending experiential purchases, such as ski passes, have higher levels of happiness than those anticipating spending money on things...

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Family Dinners Destroy Cyberbullying

Family dinners may help protect teens from the consequences of cyberbullying. ...

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Home is Where the Germs Are

A detailed analysis of the microbes that live in houses and apartments...

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Tea-drinkers Live Longer

Drinking tea reduces non-cardiovascular mortality by 24%...

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‘Too Old’? Depends on where you are.

People aged 70 and over who identify themselves as 'old' feel worse about their own health...

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Weed-Smoking Lessens Wife-Beating

634 couples found that the more often they smoked marijuana, the less likely they were to engage in domestic violence...

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How Ex-Churchgoers Reconstruct Morality

Most former churchgoers experienced deep crises of identity as they questioned their previous moral assumptions and behaviors....

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Blame it on Sleep Drunkenness

Sleep drunkenness disorder involves confusion or inappropriate behavior...

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How Sleeping Makes the Piano Easier

Insight into the role of sleep in learning motor skills requiring new movement sequences....

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Workplace Misery is a Good Thing

Positive and negative dynamics affect the working environment....

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The Lightning Storms of the Moon

Periodic storms of solar energetic particles may have significantly altered the properties of the soil in the moon's coldest craters....

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Fretful Smartphone Loss Trauma IS REAL!

The loss of one's smart phone not only represents an immediate disconnection from one's online contacts but is also a potential privacy and security risk...

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For Women, Love Makes Sex Better

Love and commitment can make sex physically more satisfying for many women...

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Ditch the Car for a Slimmer Figure

Commuting to work by active (walking or cycling) and public modes of transport is linked to lower body weight and body fat...

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Steady Pink Collar Job versus Blue Collar Bravado

For men without a four-year college degree, frontline allied healthcare jobs may be the ticket to a stable middle-class lifestyle. Report...

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Drug-Taking Kids Ignore Feds Shocker

The RAVE Act has clearly been ineffective in curtailing drug use at club events...

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