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Something You Didn’t Know About the Lipstick Index

24/07/2016

Cosmetic therapy: The link between makeup and a down economy ...

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Then Wash Your Hands: The Pathogens of Prehistoric Poo

23/07/2016

Ancient feces provides earliest evidence of infectious disease being carried on Silk Road ...

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Do You Want Shinier Computer Graphics? You Got ‘Em

22/07/2016

UCSD technicians unveil new techniques for creating shiny computer graphics for film, games and TV. Report...

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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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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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How We Hear (and it’s Not All in the Ear)

18/07/2016

Study shows auditory cortex of hearing and deaf people are nearly identical...

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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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Jus’ Like Mamma Used To Make – Garlic Flavours Breast Milk

16/07/2016

Garlic aroma found in breast milk ...

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Walloped Millennials: Sports Injuries Increasing in Adolescents

14/07/2016

Concussions on the rise for adolescents...

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You Can’t Handle the Truth? The New Censorship

11/07/2016

New techniques used to stop journalists covering the news ...

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Boredom Breeds Swivel-Eyed Loons? Existential Ennui and Extremism

10/07/2016

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”B/dropcaporedom, it seems, is a contributing cause to political extremism. Evidently, the smartphone age has had its usual inflationary...

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Could Goats be Your Next Pet? Intelligent, Loyal (and Delicious)

08/07/2016

Empathy and Need - Could goats become man's best friend? ...

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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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Can Japanese Knotweed Land You In Jail? Exeter University Advises Extreme Wariness

05/07/2016

Be wary of knotweed advice on the web, researchers warn. ...

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Sugar, Spice and Shrapnel. How Female Terrorists Control Extreme Networks

04/07/2016

Study reveals that although women remain under the radar in terrorist organizations, they hold the networks together...

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The Predictably Easy Method of Transporting Illegal Drugs

03/07/2016

Black, Hispanic drivers stopped most often, white drivers most likely to have contraband ...

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UK Wildlife Confused By Climate (but unfazed by Brexit)

02/07/2016

UK wildlife calendar reshuffled by climate change ...

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Revenge: Best Served Cold, or Not At All?

01/07/2016

Revenge is (bitter)sweet, study confirms ...

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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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Sun, Sea and… Pebbles? Saving Your Summer With A Coarser Response to Beach Erosion

26/06/2016

Beach replenishment helps protect against storm erosion during El Niño ...

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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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You Know What Sunburn Does to Your Skin, But Did You Know What it Does to Your Wine?

23/06/2016

Protecting grapes from pests by boosting their natural immunity ...

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Diversity and Adaptability: How Mammals Survived When Dinosaurs Died

21/06/2016

Mammals almost wiped out with the dinosaurs ...

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You’ve Heard of Catfishing, but Are You Protected Against Rare Blind Catfish?

20/06/2016

Rare, blind catfish never before found in US discovered in national park cave in Texas ...

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Dirty Desk, Stinky Mind: The Skinny on How Workplace Affects Brain

19/06/2016

Your workplace could affect brain function ...

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The 700 Year Old Farming Method that may Mitigate Climate Chaos

18/06/2016

Once again, science catches up with what traditional cultures knew all along...

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efficient hydrogen

Put the Kettle On, We’re off for a Drive. Efficient Hydrogen Production

17/06/2016

Efficient hydrogen production made easy ...

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tatooine like planet

Newly Discovered Circumbinary Exoplanet Resembles Tatooine

15/06/2016

Largest crowdsource astronomy network helps confirm discovery of 'Tatooine' planet ...

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teens

For Teenage Boys: The Proven Way to Double Your Female Friends

14/06/2016

Teenage boys who show empathy attract 1.8 more girlfriends than boys who don't....

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