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Why Do We Have Eyebrows? Finally We Have an Evolutionary Explanation
Why expressive brows might have mattered in human evolution (read more)
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Anxiety, Depression, Sleep: A Lethal Cocktail if the Proportions are Wrong
People who sleep less than 8 hours a night more likely to suffer from depression, anxiety (read more)
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Lose Weight Without Exercise? Enter the Fat Conversion Patch
New patch aims to turn energy-storing fats into energy-burning fats (read more)
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Hot Tea Prevents Glaucoma
Drinking hot tea every day linked to lower glaucoma risk (read more)
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Intense Self-Questioning or Going With Gut Feeling – What Makes Good Decisions?
A good decision is not made in one go (read more)
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Glycine: Cheap, Readily Available Energy. But From Where?
Researchers generate electricity from low-cost biomaterial (read more)
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What’s For Afterbirth? The Benefits, or Not, of Placenta Consumption
Research finds that consuming placentas has little to no effect on postpartum mood and maternal bonding (read more)
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Adam, ‘Ad ‘Em: Science Asks What Makes Poetry Work
What gives poetry its aesthetic appeal? (read more)
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Will Humanity Succumb to Origami-Powered Soft Robots?
Artificial muscles give soft robots superpowers (read more)
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Alchemical Ponderings – Where Exactly Does Gold Come From?
An international group of scientists reveals the mystery about the origin of gold (read more)
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The Flip Side: Are Blue Whales Left or Right ‘Handed’?
Scientists discover most blue whales are ‘right-handed’ – except when they swim upward (read more)
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Count Yourself Confident! Self-Esteem in Numbers
Discovered: The equation that can map self esteem in the brain (read more)
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Smoke Weed, Get More Action. The Science
Regular marijuana use linked to more sex, Stanford study finds (read more)
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Psychedelic Drugs: Could they Actually LOWER Crime?
New study suggests psychedelic drugs may reduce criminal behavior (read more)
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Who Left the Ichthyosaur in The Storeroom Again?
New ichthyosaur species, long gone, found in a storeroom (read more)
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Don’t Go Breaking My Heart: The Cardiac Effects of Marriage Breakdown
Risk factors for heart health linked to marital ups and downs – at least for men (read more)
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If You Like it (Intact) Better Put a Ring on It: Frailty and Older Men
Frailty and older men: Study identifies factors that speed/slow progression (read more)
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Kidney Stoned? Does Cannabis Affect Kidney Function?
Study examines whether marijuana affects kidney function (read more)
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Universal Suffrage (Except for Thickies): Higher Education and Voting
Greater access to higher education could have reversed EU referendum result (read more)
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Nitwit! Egghead! Twerp! Searching for the Funniest Words
Booty, booby, nitwit and hooter among the words which make us laugh most (read more)
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How Intuitive Are You? (Whatever You Answered, You’re Probably Wrong)
People find it difficult to judge how good their intuitions are (read more)
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How Does Money Affect Thought?
Systematic research investigates effects of money on thinking, behavior (read more)
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When the Whine… Stops. How to Manipulate Mosquitoes
Researchers use light to manipulate mosquitoes (read more)
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Oi, Hairy! New Findings on the Neanderthal-Homo Sapiens Transition
Study sheds light on Neanderthal-Homo sapiens transition (read more)
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By the Breath of Horus! Genome Data from Egyptian Mummies
Study finds that ancient Egyptians were most closely related to ancient populations from the Near East (read more)
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Hunter-Gatherers to Farmers. The Question isn’t *When*, It’s WHY?
Why did hunter-gatherers first begin farming? (read more)
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What’s Your Drunk Personality?
Your personality may change when you drink, but less than you think (read more)
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Smile if You Want to Look Older (But Less Fun)
Smile and the world thinks you’re older: Study (read more)
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Frog Slime: The Cure for the Common Cold… Almost
Frog slime kills flu virus (read more)
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Shell Beans, Not Schools: In Search of the WIld Fava Bean
Seeds from a site in Northern Israel are the ancestors of today’s fava beans (read more)