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Edging It, Or Not. The One Small Step that Stops Teens Taking Risks

31/01/2016

Teenagers are notorious risktakers, but new research suggests there is a way to calm them down. Report...

Exercise Alone Won’t Help You Slim! But what DOES work?

30/01/2016

Why you won't lose weight by exercising constantly, and what you can do about it...

Wanna Swap some Cells? Get Some Acoustic Tweezers in Your Handbag

26/01/2016

Acoustic tweezers provide much needed pluck for 3-D bioprinting. But what do they do? Report...

Risky Gambling or Shrewd Business? Does Your Brain Know the Difference?

09/01/2016

Risky gambling choices are influenced by a single brain connection ...

Guaranteed New Year Weight-Loss, Effortlessly

04/01/2016

Astronomers find new way to measure the pull of gravity at the surface of distant stars...

Weed or Wine – What’s Your Poison?

01/01/2016

No easy answers in UW study of legal marijuana's impact on alcohol use ...

Can YOU Tell if You’re Facebook Dependent?

30/12/2015

You might have a Facebook dependency. But that's not necessarily a bad thing...

Klever Kitty! Scientists Isolate the Antidepressant Component of Ketamine

27/12/2015

Team IDs brain circuit involved in party drug's antidepressant effect ...

Screw You, Confucius! Material Purchases Make You Happy

25/12/2015

A recent study from Social Psychological and Personality Science shows material purchases provide more frequent happiness...

Smart Selection: Evolution is Smarter Than We Thought

21/12/2015

Research shows that it is possible for evolution to exhibit some of the same intelligent behaviours as learning systems...

Lo-Tech Innovation Proves Grate news for the Environment

18/12/2015

Small metal grate makes big impact on environment and health ...

Episodic or Semantic: What’s Your Memory Type?

14/12/2015

New research shows that the tendency to remember episodic details versus facts is reflected in intrinsic brain patterns...

A more chaotic brain state: New Data on How LSD Works

13/12/2015

LSD changes consciousness by reorganizing human brain networks ...

SPARTAAAAAA!! What Viewing Violent Media does to Your Aggression Levels

07/12/2015

Exposure to violence makes you more likely to lie, cheat ...

Your Magneto-Jet Awaits, Sir. Powerful magnetic fields in Nature

02/12/2015

Simulation shows key to building powerful magnetic fields ...

Brain Strain: What You Don’t Want to Know (But Need To) About Cannabis

01/12/2015

Study shows white matter damage caused by 'skunk-like' cannabis ...

Finding Your Happy Place (with MRI): the Neural Structures of Happiness

25/11/2015

Kyoto University researchers narrow in on the neural structures behind happiness...

Reduce Racism with this Seven Minute Miracle

21/11/2015

Seven minutes of meditation can reduce racial prejudice, study finds ...

But does it WORK? The Power of Magical Thinking

12/11/2015

Even smart, educated, emotionally stable adults believe in superstitions that they recognize are unreasonable....

Male/Female Brain Differences? More Like Hackney to Hoxton than Mars to Venus

02/11/2015

Male/female brain differences? Big data says not so much ...

Crank Up the Volume for Anxiety and Depression. Aggressive Music and Mental Health

25/10/2015

Aggressive music related to anxiety in men...

Want to Skip the Supermarket Queue? Ditch the Beer

24/10/2015

New study conducted in German supermarket tests willingness of customers to cooperate and help other customers proceed faster...

Meet the Algorithm that Will Take Your Job: Machine Learning Advances

08/10/2015

A new way of doing machine learning that enables semantically related concepts to reinforce each other....

Power Up! Green Storage for Green Energy

26/09/2015

A rechargeable battery to power a home from rooftop solar panels...

Can You Tell Your Toes Apart? Try this Toe Test

25/09/2015

Research from Oxford University suggests we may have a problem telling our toes apart...

I didn’t forget your Birthday, I just have Delayed Remembering

24/09/2015

Kids can remember tomorrow what they forgot today ...

Up Yours? Blame Saint Peter for the Two Fingered Salute

19/09/2015

Ulnar nerve damage caused original benediction sign ...

Dither, and the Cat Dies. Quantum Probability and Irrational Decisions

16/09/2015

You're not irrational, you're just quantum probabilistic ...

Even Sitting Still, Police are Prone to Injury

05/09/2015

Police at risk of traffic injuries in stopped cars, as well as when speeding, study finds ...

Soul-Gazing: Charting The Daily Ebb and Flow of Spiritual Awareness

25/08/2015

'Sometimes the situation you are in affects your spiritual awareness. Other times your spiritual awareness affects the situation you're in.'...

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