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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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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....

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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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...

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....

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....

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...

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'....

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...

Immigrant Sahara Dust Outbreak

21/09/2013

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

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...

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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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....

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....

Ker-Schnick! Carbon Nanotube Saw Developed

11/09/2013

Science comes one step closer to sci-fi with the development of the carbon-nanotube saw....

What’s in your pee?

08/09/2013

Urine analysis using colour, taste and smell (called uroscopy) was one of the primary methods early physicians used to diagnose disease. Even today, millions of chemically based urine tests are...

Yes, You DO Have More Gravity

06/09/2013

This is a world-first effort to portray the gravity field for all countries of our planet with unseen detail...

Bizarre Nebulae Alignment

05/09/2013

The alignment we're seeing for these bipolar nebulae indicates something bizarre about star systems within the central bulge...

Tour de France Riders Live Longer

04/09/2013

'data on the long-term outcomes and causes of death in elite endurance cyclists is of particular interest'. That, and performance enhancers.......

Weight Loss for the Lazy

03/09/2013

For preventing weight gain, the intensity of the activity matters more than duration...

New Element Discovery Confirmed

02/09/2013

Lund University researchers discover new, super-heavy element. As yet un-named, expect to see it prefixing the word 'Metal' in record reviews sometime soon....