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Coaches Can Help Prevent Sports Injuries

Teaching coaches about the prevention of sports injuries and contact restrictions pays off, say researchers who tracked injury rates among youth football players...

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Too Much Telly Gets Your Toddler… Bullied?!

The toddler 's TV watching habits were reported by their parents and their victimization in grade 6 was self-reported by the children themselves....

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Why Do You Notice Human Screams, But Not Jetplanes?

Screaming really works," Poeppel says. "It is one of the earliest sounds that everyone makes...

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Cleaners that Kill

Imagine if, in an effort to clean the air more efficiently, you were involuntarily introducing chemicals more dangerous than the ones you were trying to scrub. ...

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All About the Self Esteem? Obese Teens in Denial

an increasing number of overweight adolescents do not consider themselves as obese teens....

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Highway Slime : Worms Hitchhike on (and in) Slugs

Worms invaded the guts of slugs, survived and proliferated within the intestines, and were subsequently excreted alive with the slug feces....

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Seeking (and finding) the Soft-Bodied Jumping Robot

By seamlessly blending soft and rigid body parts -- a structural innovation used by animals and insects -- a team of Harvard scientists has created a new kind of durable, soft-bodied jumping robot...

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Do Men Feel Threatened By Female Bosses?

In three experiments, Netchaeva and her co-authors discovered that men feel more threatened when they answer to female bosses....

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Can Windfarms Hurt You… With Bass Sounds?

an international team of experts dealt with the fundamentals of hearing in the lower limit range of the audible frequency range (i.e. infrasound), but also in the upper limit range (i.e. ultrasound)....

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Magnetosphere Waves Look Perfectly Surfable

Magnetosphere waves : two recently published papers highlight these shapely waves at the boundaries of near-Earth space....

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Goat Meat, The Meat on the Street, We Love to Eat

Goat meat is becoming more popular in America, and in large part it's been due to the desire of immigrants to retain the tastes and preferences of their country of origin...

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Smartphone App Says ‘Go Home, You’re Drunk’

The Alcohol Tracker smartphone app enables users to log the number of beers/shots/glasses of wine they have knocked back on a given day which it then tots up for them in units...

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Working those Muscles in Artificial Gravity

For the first time, we're showing there's a symbiosis when one combines the best aspects of exercise, and the best aspects of artificial gravity. ...

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Next-Generation Hydrogel Sprayskin : Stretchy Scabs!

A new protein-based hydrogel sprayskin that, when exposed to light, mimics many of the properties of elastic tissue....

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Nobel Laureates Call for Climate Protection

Without climate protection, our ever-increasing demand for food, water, and energy will eventually overwhelm the Earth's ability to satisfy humanity's needs....

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Smokers: What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Smug

Being around other smokers may be a major reason why cancer survivors are smoking and should be something that is addressed...

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Could Your Phone Detect Your Pregnancy?

Small add-on devices could turn a smartphone's built-in optical components into biosensing technology to monitor diabetes, test for pregnancy, monitor hazardous gases among other applications...

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How Does Your Brain Know it’s Summer?

The brain encodes seasonal changes in daylight duration through GABA activity along with changes in the amount of chloride located inside certain neurons....

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Do YOU cover up your cat’s Kill Count?

Cat owners do not accept that cats are a threat to wildlife, and oppose management strategies...

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The Neural Pathway to Deep Sleep : Discovered

Scientists identify a calcium channel essential for deep sleep ...

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It’s Gonna Be a Long Day : NASA Add Extra Time

"Earth's rotation is gradually slowing down a bit, so leap seconds are a way to account for that,"...

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Make Friends and Influence Children – With Veggies

When Valerie's day included serving green beans she was more likely to be described as "thoughtful", "attentive" and "capable."...

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Could Virtual Reality Treat Alcoholism?

Researchers said they are optimistic about the potential for virtual reality as a therapy for alcohol use disorders....

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Iron : Supernova Stardust or Bacteria Burps?

Ancient microbes were respiring iron just like we respire oxygen. It's a hard thing to wrap your head around...

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A Horror-rockin Hallowee’n. Alice Cooper UK Dates

The Alice Cooper show returns to the UK for two special nights at Plymouth Pavilions (Oct 29) and Swindon Oasis (Oct 30) with blood, guts, gore and some of the greatest rock and roll music in...

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Want to extend your life expectancy? Wear earplugs

In London more than 1.6 million people are exposed to daytime road traffic noise levels above 55dB, which the World Health Organization defines as a level of community noise that causes health...

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Babyfaced Killer or Killerfaced Baby. Can You Tell?

Facial cues conveying trustworthiness are malleable while facial cues conveying competence and ability are significantly less so...

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Anxiety of Indolence : Is Your Armchair Killing You?

An increase in sedentary behavior was associated with an increased risk of anxiety...

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Sneezin’ Ticket? Virus Transmission and Commuting

In increasingly mobile modern societies, long-distance transmission can rapidly spread pathogens....

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Forget Life on Mars, Is There Volcanism on Venus?

The observation of hotspots by Venus Express, combined with the geologic mapping from Venera and Magellan, make a strong case for a volcanically active Venus...

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