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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Why Women (and Patriarchy) Prefer Tall Men

12/02/2014

According to the study data, the dominant reasons females cited for preferring a tall partner are matters of protection and femininity....

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Capturing Crowd Dynamics

10/02/2014

A new study proposes a method for quantitatively analyzing the relative value of models for crowd dynamics prediction...

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Repackage Space Cakes, Save a Kid

09/02/2014

As more states decriminalize marijuana, lawmakers should consider requirements – such as child-resistant packaging, warning labels and public education...

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Scared? Grab Something Comforting

08/02/2014

Fear stimulates people to report greater brand attachment...

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You Lookin’ at My Bird?

07/02/2014

Jackdaw eyes are used as a warning signal to successfully deter competitors from coming near their nest boxes...

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Papa Was a Rolling Stone : Seductive Mouse Songs

06/02/2014

Play me some new stuff. Female mice displayed an innate preference for male songs from different families. News item....

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Unhand Those Beats! Software detects audio plagiarism

05/02/2014

Fraunhofer IDMT's "PlagiarismAnalyzer" detects identical melodies and samples (whole portions of a song) in a matter of seconds....

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We’re Here For a Good Time, Not a Long Time

04/02/2014

We're Here For A Good Time Not A Long Time is a story of love, loss and a list. It is slow, it is subtle, it is emotional and it is tender...

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Bolt Thrower to Play Damnation Nov 14

03/02/2014

Bolt Thrower to Play Damnation Nov 14...

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The Tides of Tatooine

03/02/2014

Powerful gravitational perturbations from the two stars on the rocky building blocks of planets lead to destructive collisions. ...

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Flying Snakes, Flying

02/02/2014

The snake's body works like an aerofoil to generate lift forces to keep it airborne...

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Silent auction for ‘Gastonbury’ benefit gig

28/01/2014

Raising money to pay for legal representation at the upcoming Public Inquiry into Dart Energy’s controversial plans to drill for coal bed methane gas on farmland and under homes...

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Love Thy Neighbour or Lynch Him?

27/01/2014

Statistically speaking, right-wing authoritarianism appears to suppress the positive relationship between religiosity and love of neighbor...

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Salmonella May Prevent Asthma

26/01/2014

Researchers from Germany have identified the mechanism by which Salmonella infections can reduce the incidence of asthma in mice....

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3D Printing Fiddly Microstructures

25/01/2014

3D Printing grows up. Researchers demonstrate the printing of three microsystems featuring mechanical, microfluidic and electrical functionalities...

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Drilling into Magma for Geothermal Energy

24/01/2014

Drilling into magma is a very rare occurrence anywhere in the world and this is only the second known instance, the first one, in 2007, being in Hawaii...

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A Touch of Froth : Beer Dynamics.

23/01/2014

New research explains beer's rapid transformation from a liquid to a foamy state as the result of an impact....

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Measuring Schrodinger’s Quantum Cats

22/01/2014

University of Rochester researchers develop a method to measure quantum states whilst avoiding the uncertainty principle....

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Sunshine is Good for You

21/01/2014

Avoiding excess sunlight exposure is critical to prevent skin cancer, but not being exposed to it at all, out of fear or as a result of a certain lifestyle, could increase the risk of cardiovascular...

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Scotland’s Abundant Tidal Energy

20/01/2014

The Pentland Firth is a prime candidate to house marine power projects because of its tidal currents, which are among the fastest in the British Isles....

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Do Narcissists Make Better Bosses?

19/01/2014

The risk-taking and persuasiveness of narcissists may make them strong leaders in the midst of chaos....

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Scientists Discover Nature’s Good Vibes

18/01/2014

Like the strings on a violin or the pipes of an organ, the proteins in the human body vibrate in different patterns, scientists have long suspected....

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Mid-Life Memory Loss : It’s the Booze

17/01/2014

Middle-aged men who drink more than 36 grams of alcohol, or two and a half US drinks per day, may speed their memory loss by up to six years later on....

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Is there a Sixth Sense?

16/01/2014

Do we have a sixth sense? A University of Melbourne study found that people could reliably sense when a change had occurred, even when they could not see exactly what had changed....

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How to Game Kickstarter

15/01/2014

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”I/dropcapt ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you pitch it. Keyword triggerphrases guaranteed to prompt that Pavlovian give...

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Do Kids Make You Happy or Sad?

14/01/2014

Happiness, unhappiness, and how often you've stood on a Lego brick in the small hours of the morning....

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No Breaks for Hip-Hop Students

13/01/2014

Time to fight the power. Black and Latino "hip-hop" students are disproportionately punished in urban schools. ...

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An Alternative to Student Loans

12/01/2014

Students would commit to paying a fixed percentage of their income (6%) during their prime earning years ...

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Why Do We Need Sleep?

11/01/2014

Sleep may be important because it weakens the connections among brain cells to save energy, avoid cellular stress, and maintain the ability of neurons to respond selectively to stimuli...

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British Bulldog? UK Dogs and Aggression

09/01/2014

Nearly seven percent of owners responded that their dog barked, lunged, growled or actually bit when people came to the house, and five percent reported these behaviours on meeting people when out on...

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