Tag: research

We Can Think That For You Wholesale: Do Think Tanks Work?

26/07/2016

Do think-tanks matter? A UBC professor says 'think again' ...

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Are You Depressive, Positive, or Both? Cognitive Bias Explains the Link

21/07/2016

Same genes could make us prone to both happiness and depression ...

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Shake Dem Pixels: Sexualization in Video Games Down

20/07/2016

Sexualizaton of female video game characters has diminished since the 1990s ...

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meds

High Times, Blue Rinses. Drug Abuse and the Elderly

19/07/2016

Many elderly people are receiving and using prescription medications inappropriately ...

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nanotubes

Easier, Faster, Cheaper Carbon Nanotubes. At LAST!

17/07/2016

A straightforward route for engineering the properties of single-wall carbon nanotubes...

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Walloped Millennials: Sports Injuries Increasing in Adolescents

14/07/2016

Concussions on the rise for adolescents...

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UAVs: Where We’re Going, We Don’t NEED Humans

07/07/2016

Teaching drones about the birds and the bees ...

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Squeeze it Out: Now You Can Finally Get That Last Drop of Shampoo

27/06/2016

Coating developed to make soap pour cleanly out of plastic bottles, reduce waste and frustration...

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Slums

The Idle Poor and the ‘Link’ Between Violence and Hot Climates

25/06/2016

Climate 'impacts life strategies, time orientation, self-control', claim Ohio researchers...

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sorghum

Aussie Ute-Juice: Making Biofuel From Roadside Weed Stems

04/06/2016

Australian scientists discover abundant source for environmentally friendly biofuel...

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explosives

What Does a Two Kilo TNT Explosion REALLY Look Like? (US Army Photos)

02/06/2016

US Army camera captures explosives in fine detail ...

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Global Warming

Unwarmed. How The Last Frontier of Global Warming Stays Frosty

31/05/2016

Exploring the cold, sluggish band of deep ocean that resists the global meltdown...

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golfball and club

Acoustic Researchers Rid Golf Courses of Clanging Bores (well, some of them)

27/05/2016

Acousticians track down the reason a type of driver creates a loud clang when it strikes the ball...

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A New Hope For Bleached Coral Reefs?

26/05/2016

UN report finds parts of coral reef ecosystems may survive in barely known deeper environments...

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Is it Done Yet? Archaeologists Find 5000 Year-Old Recipe for Beer

24/05/2016

Revealing a 5000-year-old beer recipe in China...

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Mellow Yellow, Pretty in Pink. The Science of Flower Colour

14/05/2016

With customary Dutch horticultural knowhow, University of Groningen researcher explains the anatomy of flower color ...

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The Eyebleach Effect: Is Intentional Forgetting Possible?

07/05/2016

Study shows how memories can be intentionally forgotten ...

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chocolate

Melty Yum. The Chemistry of a Low Fat Chocolate that Might Actually Taste Good

03/05/2016

Clever boffins work on ways to make low fat chocolate taste less like Babybel rind...

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polar bears

Are You Gettin’ It? The Effects of Frequent Sex (with your partner) on Relationships

27/04/2016

Does frequent sex lead to better relationships? Depends on how you ask ...

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Forget Lipstick on the Collar, Viral Tracking Reveals Exactly Where You’ve Been

05/04/2016

Your viruses could reveal your travel history, and more ...

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What’s the Point of Men? The Twofold Cost of Sex

01/04/2016

The existence of males is of enormous cost to a species, so why does nature tolerate them?...

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Human ancestors habitat 620

No Mod Cons, But a Spectacular View. Where our Human Ancestors Lived

12/03/2016

Scientists piece together an early human habitat for the first time...

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Here Be Treasure! Newly-Discovered Anglo Saxon Island

07/03/2016

Ornate writing tools discovered in a ploughed field lead archaeologists to entire island community...

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Is This Thing On? Scientists Propose New Method for Finding Extraterrestrial Life

05/03/2016

Researchers suggest a way of searching for weak signals from beyond Earth...

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toilet

What Can I Take to Help Me Lose Weight? Oh, That!

04/03/2016

Drinking more water associated with numerous dietary benefits, study finds ...

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Cannabis seedling

Chill, Dude! Or Maybe Not. Cannabis Users Have Difficulty Processing Emotions

03/03/2016

Colorado State University study points to cannabis' muddling effect on emotion processing ...

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If You’d Like Less Brain Volume, Press the Red Button Now.

14/02/2016

Neurologists suggest that poor physical fitness in middle age may be linked to a smaller brain size later on....

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windmill, climate engineering

Could This Be the Invention that Fixes Everything? CO2 as Sustainable Fuel

08/02/2016

Carbon dioxide captured from air converted directly to methanol fuel for the first time ...

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Sure we can, but SHOULD we? Digital Head and the Ethics of Intelligence

05/02/2016

Examining the unpredictable and disruptive possibilities contained within new technologies...

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NASA, W. Hrybyk

Want Lightspeed Internet? You need NASA’s integrated-photonics modem

03/02/2016

NASA engineers tapped to build first integrated-photonics modem ...

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