Author: Trebuchet News

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Ink Levels Low? Fill it up with Rust! 3D Printing Advances

New rapid method expands the types of metals, alloys, and architectures that can be additively manufactured...

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Sweat it Out. Cracking Lower Back Pain

Exercise associated with prevention of low back pain ...

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But How Do You Get the Lid Off? Mesoglue Revolutionises Nano-Stickiness

A glue that binds metal to metal to glass to you-name-it, sets at room temperature, and requires little pressure to seal...

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Good goods: Why Small Males Might Be More Attractive

Small males have more sex appeal, new research shows ...

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Glowing With Health – Fluorescent Agent Helps Cancer Surgery

Injectable Agent Illuminates Cancer During Surgery...

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

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

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Smug-Shaming, or Why We Love to Hate Hippies

When you don't seek out ethical products, you denigrate those who do...

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Mind of Blue. The Neuroscience of the Minor Key

Study of jazz pianists finds 'happy' and 'sad' music evoke different neural patterns...

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Did You Really Want to do That? Free Will Gets Computer Analysed

Berlin researchers test mechanisms involved in decision-making...

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Guaranteed New Year Weight-Loss, Effortlessly

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

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GERROFFF MOI LAAAANDD! Prehistoric Farmers Weren’t As Important as We Thought

New research shows same growth rate for farming and non-farming prehistoric people ...

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Machine Intelligence Can Save the Planet. But do we trust it (not to kill us)?

Can human-machine superintelligence can solve the world's direst problems?...

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Weed or Wine – What’s Your Poison?

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

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A Bounteous New Year to All (but save it ’til you’re hungry)

Let hunger be your guide. Eating when we are not hungry is bad for our health...

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Can YOU Tell if You’re Facebook Dependent?

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

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Cloudy Clouds and Cloudier Clouds. Where’s the Powder At?

Scientists discover that salty sea spray affects clouds ...

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Harbingers of Failure. Are You The Eternal Betamax?

Harbingers of failure have the unusual property that they keep on buying products that are taken from the shelves...

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Klever Kitty! Scientists Isolate the Antidepressant Component of Ketamine

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

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Heretic! Religion and Politics, Causing Mayhem for 2000 Years

Scientists find: Religion and politics led to social tension and conflict, then and now ...

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Screw You, Confucius! Material Purchases Make You Happy

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

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Spuds in Space: How to (Really) Grow Potatoes on Mars

Crop harvested under Red Planet conditions will set course for Martian farming...

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Caring Canines. Do Dogs Do Christmas Too?

Dogs truly behave prosocially toward other dogs....

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How Extreme Space Weather Could Ruin Your Rail Journey

Ensuring readiness in case of space weather events ...

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Smart Selection: Evolution is Smarter Than We Thought

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

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The Effortless Life-Extending Breakthrough You Have to Try

Face cream ingredient found to mimic life-extending effects of a calorie restriction diet ...

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The Other One Percent. What Refugees Really Cost

The fiscal impact of refugees in Sweden ...

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Lo-Tech Innovation Proves Grate news for the Environment

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

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Tall Tales and Freak Waves – The Science of the Sneaker Set

Oceanic Freak waves hit without warning, new research shows ...

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How to Use Wee Wee For Wi-Fi Enabled Socks

Wearable energy generator uses urine to power wireless transmitter ...

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Who’s the Innovator When it Comes To Scratch? Pimp Your Toothbrush.

How satisfied we are with our toothbrush depends a lot on the sound of the bristles scrubbing against the enamel....

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