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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Clean Hands Cause Unfounded Optimism

26/10/2013

Test subjects who washed their hands after a task were more optimistic than those who did not wash their hands, but it hampered their future performance in the same task domain...

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Israeli Scientist Finds Un-Gay Insects

24/10/2013

Tel Aviv University researchers insist that their same-sex mating insects are NOT gay. No sir. No gay bugs here in Israel....

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Bloodstock 2014 – Updated Lineup

22/10/2013

Bloodstock Open Air announce the addition of Megadeth to the 2014 lineup...

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Dad Rock : How Music Taste Changes

17/10/2013

As we settle down and middle age begins to creep in, the last musical age, as identified by the researchers, is dominated by 'sophisticated' – such as jazz and classical – and 'unpretentious' –...

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A picture of an old woman's hands by Carl Byron Batson

Why Does Your Heart Slow Down?

16/10/2013

One of the reasons for the age-dependent reduction in maximum heart rate is that aging depresses the spontaneous electrical activity of the heart's natural pacemaker...

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Desert Diamonds Point to Crashed Comet

14/10/2013

Comets contain the very secrets to unlocking the formation of our solar system and this discovery gives us an unprecedented opportunity to study comet material first hand...

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Do You Have Cyberchondria? Google it.

13/10/2013

When you look at a medical book, you might not see all the possibilities at once, but online you're presented with so many...

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Puke-Perfumed Lampreys Looking for Love

09/10/2013

Sea lampreys and silver lampreys were drawn upstream by the smell of bile salts. Only the sea lampreys, though, swam in looking for love...

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Einstein Was Better Connected than You

08/10/2013

A tangled web. Einstein had more extensive connections between certain parts of his cerebral hemispheres than most....

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Video: Wildhearts and Napalm Death in Mutation

05/10/2013

Video: Mutation, the collective helmed by Ginger Wildheart, is streaming “Relentless Confliction,” from the band’s forthcoming debut Error 500 (released via Ipecac, Oct. 28)...

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Instagram Puts You Off Your Food

05/10/2013

If you're on Instagram all day looking at all of the salads your friends post, you're probably not going to enjoy your next salad...

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Avoid Bad Luck with Science

03/10/2013

Our findings suggest that not all actions to undo a jinx are equally effective...

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Mythbusting: Large Immigrant Families and Poverty

30/09/2013

The number of children in immigrant families is not the primary reason more children are living in poverty, a Rutgers study has found....

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Animals Feel the Rhythm of the Ocean

29/09/2013

Animals living in marine environments keep to their schedules with the aid of multiple independent—and, in at least some cases, interacting—internal clocks....

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Monocentric Lens for Pin-Sharp Surveillance

28/09/2013

'Next year, we'll build an 85-megapixel imager with a 120-degree field of view, more than a dozen sensors, and an F/2 lens – all in a volume 'roughly the size of a walnut'...

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Wait for the Drop. Anticipation and Music

27/09/2013

The auditory cortex performs a role beyond just processing sound. Rather, this area of the brain appears to be activated during other activities that require learning and thought, such as confirming...

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Remember Agincourt : French Horn Causes Deafness

26/09/2013

Between 11 percent and 22 percent of the participants showed some form of hearing loss. No data yet on the English Horn....

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A Final Use for Crap CDs

25/09/2013

While other researchers have experimented with using zinc oxide to degrade organic pollutants, Tsai's team is the first to grow the photocatalyst on an optical disk....

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A picture of a Manga girl with sword by Dan Booth

Violent Drunks : Not What, but Where

24/09/2013

The context in which drinking occurs also appears to play a role in violence against partners...

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Men Cheat Because they’re Horny

23/09/2013

Unsurprisingly, men cheat on partners because they act on their sexual impulses. Less predictably, research suggests these urges are stronger than womens'....

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Enduring the Heat with Paracetemol

22/09/2013

Paracetamol improves the time someone can exercise in the heat, and that this occurs alongside a reduced body temperature...

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Immigrant Sahara Dust Outbreak

21/09/2013

Concentrations of inhalable particles more than doubled during a major Saharan dust intrusion in Houston, Texas...

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Wide-Faced Lies

20/09/2013

Men with wider faces are more aggressive, less trustworthy and more prone to engaging in deception...

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Got Rhythm? You Probly Talk Gud Too

19/09/2013

It may be that musical training, with an emphasis on rhythmic skills, exercises the auditory-system, leading to strong sound-to-meaning associations that are so essential in learning to read...

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Let your fingers do the talking

17/09/2013

When the communicator's finger slightly rubs an everyday object, the physical interaction creates an ad hoc speaker that makes it possible to hear the recorded sounds....

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UFOMammut Magickal Mastery Tour

16/09/2013

The 'Magickal Mastery Tour' is a journey through fifteen years of Ufomammut music, performing songs from Godlike Snake to ORO....

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A picture of an angry woman in rubber by Carl Byron Batson

Your Pain, My Pleasure. Understanding Sadism

15/09/2013

Exploring the 'dark triad' of human personality: psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism, psychologists examine sadism and its effects....

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Butterfly Wings Inspire New Technologies

14/09/2013

By using design ideas from nature we are able to work towards the development of applications in a range of different technologies....

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Helen Knowles : GV ART [Exhibition Details]

13/09/2013

Knowles selects footage that portrays the women’s euphoria and attempts to capture the intense emotion of childbirth ...

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House Been Repossessed? Blame Robots

12/09/2013

Our findings show that, in this new world of ultrafast robot algorithms, the behavior of the market undergoes a fundamental and abrupt transition to another world where conventional market theories...

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