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We Don’t ‘Like’: Social Media and Depression

26/12/2016

Multi-social millennials are more likely to be depressed than their peers...

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Sunlight: Yes it burns, but it also boosts your immune system

25/12/2016

Sunlight offers a surprise benefit - it energizes infection fighting T cells ...

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Tracking Global Warming With Mother of Pearl : The Ocean’s Tree-Rings

24/12/2016

Ocean temperatures faithfully recorded in mother-of-pearl ...

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Tastes Like Cabbage: The Deep Origins of Cooked Veggies

23/12/2016

Earliest evidence discovered of plants cooked in ancient pottery ...

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Even Scientifically Proven News Can Be Fake News

22/12/2016

Scientific 'facts' could be false ...

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The Mental Health Trick You’ll Really Like: Saunas Against Dementia

21/12/2016

Frequent sauna bathing protects men against dementia ...

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Street Art Goes Rural: Swiss Erosion Grafitti

19/12/2016

Determining erosion rates via painting...

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Classroom Internet Use Leads to Lower Grades

18/12/2016

Internet use in class tied to lower test scores ...

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Bustin’ Bad Cholesterol With Red Cabbage

17/12/2016

Red cabbage microgreens lower 'bad' cholesterol in animal study ...

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Soft-Touch Robotics, Coming to a Rub Shop Near You

16/12/2016

New robot has a human touch ...

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In Search of Trojan Asteroids : The Solar System’s Silent Watchers

15/12/2016

Trojan asteroids are travel companions to planets as they orbit the Sun. It's time to find them....

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Modified Sawdust Mops Up Oil Spills

14/12/2016

Sawdust reinvented into super sponge for oil spills ...

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Forget the Protestant Work Ethic. Catholics Are More Committed

13/12/2016

Baylor University research suggests Catholics are most committed to their work...

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Hi Donaldski, It’s Me, Vladski! Printing Secret Messages on an Inkjet

12/12/2016

Researchers create hidden images with commercial inkjet printers ...

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No Work-Life Laws for Sex Workers: The Modern Coalface of Discriminaton

11/12/2016

Work-life laws privilege brothel and community interests, not the workers...

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3D Print Your Own Music Career (Don’t Blame Us if it’s Short-Lived)

10/12/2016

3-D printed wind instruments in any shape or form...

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Eat Yourself Thin (by chowing revolting sweet potato waste)

09/12/2016

The secret slimming effect of sweet potato waste...

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Sorting the Wheat from the Chaff: Exposing Ancient Cereal Cultivation

08/12/2016

Prehistoric plant remains highlight diverse origins of cereal domestication ...

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WHAT Does it Say About Me?! Should Fiction Depict Real People?

07/12/2016

When artistic freedom violates somebody's privacy ...

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Synchronous Oscillations: Are You Actually Awake?

06/12/2016

Portions of the brain fall asleep and wake back up all the time...

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What Does Anger Sound Like to Children?

05/12/2016

Researchers pair acoustical analysis with brain mapping to understand how children process emotion in speech...

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Return Trip? Magic Mushrooms and Cancer

04/12/2016

Psilocybin relieves anxiety and depression in patients with advanced cancer ...

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The Unexpected Healing Power of Platypus Venom

03/12/2016

Platypus venom could hold key to diabetes treatment ...

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Blue Whales, shipping

Don’t Tell the Japanese. New Ways of Tracking Blue Whales

02/12/2016

New forecast tool helps ships avoid blue whale hotspots ...

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Why ‘Put the bin out’ Sounds Like ‘Open a Beer’. Gender and Vocal Attractiveness

30/11/2016

New research suggests that men and women perceive consonants differently...

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Have an Ice Day: Lake Ecologists Consider the Winter Season

29/11/2016

Study finds life under the ice is vibrant, complex and surprisingly active...

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That Time You Went Away? Your Dogs Remember

28/11/2016

Your dogs are paying attention and they'll remember...

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Check Your Pants! This Ethiopian Ant Could Conquer the World

27/11/2016

New dominant ant species discovered in Ethiopia shows potential for global invasion ...

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Born Slippy? These Boots Were(n’t) Made For Walking on Ice (Ice Baby)

26/11/2016

Most winter boots are too slippery to walk safely on icy surfaces. The Shame!...

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Greening the Battlefields (but destroying the planet?) with Transgenic Grass

25/11/2016

New grasses neutralize toxic pollution from bombs, explosives, and munitions ...

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