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 Bullies Become Businessmen

08/08/2013

Greed is good. Research shows anti-social tendencies exist throughout the lives of successful entrepreneurs....

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Isolating the Pain of Sunburn

07/08/2013

Isolating the Pain of Sunburn. Now a scientific possibility. Question is, should we?...

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Practise Makes Perfect

05/08/2013

Scientists find out exactly why practise makes perfect...

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Shopaholics are Sad

04/08/2013

Shopaholics are displaying deeper issues of self-esteem and depression, according to San Francisco scientists...

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Out of Body Robotic Stroking

01/08/2013

Neuroscientists reveal a multisensory technique that convinces the patient they're inhabiting another person's body....

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Grizzly Bear Berry Bonanza

31/07/2013

'The percentage of fruit in grizzly bear scat in recent years has almost doubled'...

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Mosaic Syria Exhibition

30/07/2013

Some of the exhibited work has been smuggled out of Syria and will be exhibited abroad for the first time. Mosaic Syria at the P21 Gallery...

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Natural Particle Accelerator Found

28/07/2013

Using data from a NASA satellite, scientists have discovered a massive particle accelerator in the heart of one of the harshest regions of near-Earth space...

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Food Tastes Better with Rituals

26/07/2013

Experiments to investigate how ritualistic behaviors might influence our perception and consumption of various foods...

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Sebadoh : Album and UK Gigs

25/07/2013

After a 14 year break, Sebadoh are back with an album and two UK dates....

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Polar Bear London Gig

24/07/2013

On October 4 Polar Bear will play a headline show at Bishopsgate Institute, their only London date of 2013. The band will be performing entirely new material....

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Mark Lanegan Acoustic Show

23/07/2013

Mark Lanegan Acoustic Show. This will be an acoustic tour and take place in seated venues, reaching the UK/Ireland for November date....

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Love Drug’s a Dud

23/07/2013

Oxytocin appears to be the reason stressful social situations reverberate long past the event...

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So Much For Antioxidants

22/07/2013

So, it's a choice between exercise and vegetables then? Bring the pies....

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Rebuilding Ears with Mutant Mouse Research

21/07/2013

New research, based on the study of mutant mice, leads to breakthrough in human hearing rehabilitation...

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Break a habit – Live Longer

20/07/2013

People who eat during times of stress typically seek the foods they eat out of habit – regardless of how healthy or unhealthy that food is....

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Stop the Voices! Internal Monologues and Health

19/07/2013

internal speech makes use of a system that is primarily involved in processing external speech...

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Dogs learn human behaviour

18/07/2013

dogs are able to reproduce familiar actions and novel actions after different delays ̶ familiar actions after intervals as long as ten minutes; novel tasks after a delay of one minute...

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Erased Tapes Anniversary Boxset

17/07/2013

Erased Tapes celebrate five years with a stylish boxset of 7 inch vinyl....

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Manga to Movies

16/07/2013

Japanese films have retaken the box office in their home market in a major shift not seen since the 1960s....

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Evolution of fins towards land

15/07/2013

Why did animals with limbs win the race to invade land over those with fins? More than just evolution? ...

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Why Brains Love ‘Viral’

14/07/2013

How do ideas spread? What messages will go viral on social media, and can this be predicted?...

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Looking whiter no self-esteem boost

13/07/2013

Looking whiter embodying racism: Race, rhinoplasty, and self-esteem in Venezuela...

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Pelican Announce New Album

12/07/2013

Pelican Announce first new album in four years! 'Forever Becoming' to be release this october on Southern Lord. ...

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Hot Sex for Lampreys

12/07/2013

Some like it hot: The role of heat in sea lampreys' sex lives... cold lover's with hot hot mouths....

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Bioeconomy for Forestry

11/07/2013

Bioeconomy as a solution for South Australia's declining forest industry...

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Technology

Breakthrough in internet bandwidth

10/07/2013

New breakthrough in internet bandwidth and fiber optic technology could ease Internet congestion, video streaming....

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Bloodstock Has A Winner!

09/07/2013

Cry, laugh, scream? We just don't know. We're lost, confused, torn between a dichotomy of conflicting emotions. Which is pretty apt....

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Space

Interplanetary contamination

09/07/2013

Two university researchers say environmental restrictions have become unnecessarily restrictive and expensive—on Mars. Interplanetary contamination of yeah....

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Inside the minds of murderers

08/07/2013

The minds of murderers who kill impulsively, often out of rage, and those who carefully carry out premeditated crimes differ markedly both psychologically and intellectuall...

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