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The Rise if the Robopets. Or not.

14/05/2015

When engineers work on robotic dogs, they work on social intelligence, they address what people need from their dogs: companionship, love, obedience, dependence...

Flowers traced to Paleolithic burial site

13/05/2015

The most plausible hypothesis is that complete flowers were placed on the tomb...

Image by Jakob Helbig University of Copenhagen.

Catching Rays to Save Sunlight

12/05/2015

Regardless of method, when you store energy there is a theoretical limit to the energy density.... And then there is reality. ...

You like? Social media, sharing and sales

10/05/2015

Marketing campaigns focused on social media and socioeconomic groupings are likely to give the greatest boost...

Banking on Algorithms : Predicting Financial Collapse

09/05/2015

The learning mechanism of neurones has inspired researchers at the University of Valladolid (Spain) to create algorithms that can predict whether a bank will go bust....

Wooing the M-Shopper. Retail goes Mobile

07/05/2015

Low spenders in particular shop more often and place larger orders after adopting mobile....

(Badly) Analysing The Evolution of Pop Music With SCIENCE

06/05/2015

It's exciting to be able to study the evolution of popular music scientifically. But now we want to go further, and find out not just how the music has changed, but why....

Bricks and Mortar has good news in store

05/05/2015

When brick-and-mortar stores were added, consumers made more frequent purchases overall....

Walk Quicker, Live Longer

04/05/2015

Even short walks add up to a lot when repeated many times over the course of a week....

Tackling Obeersity : Calorie Labels on Booze

03/05/2015

Most were completely unaware that alcohol contributed to the total calories that they consumed....

Trebuchet Talks

02/05/2015

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Transforming the Office with Liquid Crystal Smart Windows

02/05/2015

A novel liquid crystal technology allows displays to flip between transparent and opaque states ...

The Peas Are Nice, Dear. Ageing Insects

01/05/2015

As insects grow old their behaviour becomes increasingly predictable...

In Denial? Flour Beetles in a Harsh World

30/04/2015

Flour beetles exhibit a highly tactile form of courtship in which the male mounts the female and stimulates her...

Child Safety? There’s an App for That

29/04/2015

Health professionals can and should unite with industry to optimize children's already frequent use of mobile devices to help promote their health and well-being...

Megatron or Optimus Prime : Which Leader Are You?

28/04/2015

The Transformers' characters and the stories told in the cartoon are a modern example of traditional folklore as a means of educating individuals about leadership....

Piling it On : Television and Obese Children

27/04/2015

Kindergartners and first-graders who watched as little as one hour of television a day were more likely to be overweight or obese ...

Tinnitus and the Brain 3D Mapped

26/04/2015

Activity directly linked to tinnitus was very extensive, and spanned a large proportion of the brain...

Feeling Invisible… Deliberately. Weird Science Simulation

25/04/2015

The feeling of invisibility changes our physical stress response in challenging social situations...

Presenting the Ping Pong Ourobouros of Singapore

24/04/2015

The white, pearl-like spheres will become luminescent by night, and the sentences will join up to form lines flowing around the circular shape....

Serotonin and Depression : Busting the Myth

23/04/2015

The widely held belief that depression is due to low levels of serotonin in the brain - and that effective treatments raise these levels - is a myth, argues a leading psychiatrist...

10x the Speed! Boosting Wifi with Photodiodes

22/04/2015

The system can potentially send data at up to 100 megabits per second....

Only a Few? Smoking and Denial

21/04/2015

It seems that people are aware about the dangers of tobacco for health, but might consider that the risks are not for themselves, but only for other people....

Cancer-busting broccoli FTW!

20/04/2015

Broccoli sprout extract protects against oral cancer in mice and proved tolerable in a small group of healthy human volunteers...

The Sweat Smell of Success

19/04/2015

In a way, happiness sweat is somewhat like smiling - it is infectious....

Then bury your head in it…. Nuclear Waste Disposal

17/04/2015

Deep borehole disposal has been developed primarily in the UK but is likely to see its first field trials in the USA next year. ...

How to Promote Backyard Bird Diversity

15/04/2015

Neighborhoods most attractive to birds were those in which many yards had fruit or berry-bearing trees and shrubs...

Can You Catch Norovirus from Your Dog? Maybe.

14/04/2015

It is not clear just how much of a problem canine infection and transmission may represent for humans...

Kissy Kissy Icky Icky. Why kids don’t snog

12/04/2015

A hardwired signal in the brain accounts for young children’s temporary aversion to bestowing physical affection on the opposite sex. It takes at least a decade of marriage to make the...