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Saudi Arabia’s First Dinosaurs

08/01/2014

Dinosaur fossils are exceptionally rare in the Arabian Peninsula, with only a handful of highly fragmented bones documented thus far....

Wind Power to Fight Wind Power

07/01/2014

Installing wind power plants at certain favorable locations in a power grid can make the grid more robust against extraneous disruptions...

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In Search of Time Travellers

06/01/2014

If there were time travelers among us, would they be on social media? How would you find them? Could you Google them?...

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You Are What you Read. Really.

05/01/2014

Reading a novel may cause changes in resting-state connectivity of the brain that persist...

Second Generation Biofuel Breakthrough

04/01/2014

The use of 'difficult-to-digest' sources, such as plant stems, wood chips, cardboard waste or insect / crustacean shells, offers a potential solution....

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London’s River of Filth

03/01/2014

Thousands of pieces of plastic have been discovered, submerged along the river bed of the upper Thames Estuary...

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Dial, Drive, Die.

02/01/2014

Experienced adults were more than twice as likely to crash or have a near miss when dialing a cell phone as when they did not dial and drive...

Emotions mapped on the body. Credit: Aalto University and Turku PET Centre.

Can You Feel the Love Tonight?

01/01/2014

Emotions adjust not only our mental, but also our bodily states. This way they prepare us to react swiftly to the dangers, but also to opportunities ...

Post-Christmas Midriff Bulge? Blame Norm

31/12/2013

Eating behaviors can be transmitted socially...

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Who Will Save the Eels?

30/12/2013

Even though people have consumed it for millennia, the origin of the eel has long been shrouded in mystery. New studies explain all. ...

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Humans Beat Computers in Face-Recogniton

29/12/2013

Human beings are highly efficient at recognising familiar faces, even from very poor quality images. The trait now has forensics applications. News...

Airworthiness and Fatigue

28/12/2013

The power dissipation behavior of the lithium-ion battery is, in principle, the same as that for the fatigue of metals. Implications for air travel. News...

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Antibiotic Attack!

27/12/2013

Without effective antibiotics, any surgery – even minor ones – will become extremely risky....

Want to Perform? Get Excited

26/12/2013

It really does pay to be positive, and people should say they are excited. ...

Virgin Birth : The Scientific View

25/12/2013

0.5% of women affirmed their status as virgins and did not use assisted reproductive technology, yet reported virgin births...

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Odd or Even? Your Brain Sucks

24/12/2013

If the brain is like a computer, why do brains make mistakes that computers don't?...

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How to Castrate a Hippo

23/12/2013

The procedure is notoriously difficult due to problems with anaesthesia and difficulties in locating the testes....

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Weight Loss is Easier for White Women

22/12/2013

African-American women don't lose as much weight as Caucasian women in response to the same behavioral interventions of calorie restriction....

Suicide Stigma Still Survives

21/12/2013

Explaining why suicide is stigmatized and often considered a taboo topic of conversation...

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Vodka-Fuelled Texts. We’ve All Done It.

20/12/2013

Successfully text messaging 'O Canada' using evaporated vodka. Why ever not?...

Better to Be Right than Happy?

19/12/2013

Doctors see many couples who lead unnecessarily stressful lives by wanting to be right rather than happy....

Fighting Festive Flab

18/12/2013

A daily bout of exercise generates vast physiological benefits even when you consume thousands of calories more than you are burning...

Pearls Negras : Favela Flava

17/12/2013

Fast, aggressive hip hop beats matching their aggressively charged performances. Pearls Negras bite back at the favela that birthed them....

Getting Blind on Jailhouse Wine

16/12/2013

Went to a party in the county jail, threw my spleen up in a rusty pail....

Mathematical Models to Avoid Conflict

15/12/2013

The findings show that this mathematical formula of the form AB-C is a valuable tool that can be applied to make quantitative predictions concerning future attacks in a given confrontation. ...

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The Ideal Height for Altitude Training

13/12/2013

These findings suggest that there's a defined window for altitude living—between 2000 and 2500 meters—that can improve sea level performance in competitive runners....

Trauma Footage Causes Stress Flashbacks

12/12/2013

Acute stress symptoms increased with each additional hour of bombing-related media exposure via television, social media, videos, print or radio....

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Tonguetwisters twist the thoughts too

09/12/2013

Tongue twisters are not just fun to say; it turns out that these sound-related slip-ups can also open windows into the brain's speech-planning processes. ...