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Kissy Kissy Icky Icky – The Microbiology of Snogging

17/11/2014

Researchers calculate that about 80 million bacteria are transferred during a 10 second kiss...

Garlic by Freedigitlphtoos.net and Mister GC

Cold Feet and Garlic Bread – The Hidden Link

16/11/2014

The mechanism in that creates the connection between cold and pain is the same receptor that reacts to the pungent substances in mustard and garlic....

Different Gender, Different Words. How Mothers Talk to Kids

14/11/2014

Parent-child conversations are gendered, with mothers talking more expressively to their daughters than their sons. Report...

Drumsticks by freedigitalphotos.net and hinnamsaisuy

Are You ‘Beat Deaf’?

13/11/2014

Beat-deafness, though very rare, is a problem not simply of how people feel a pulse or move their bodies, but instead, how people synchronize with sounds they hear....

Dublin by Freedigitalphotos.net and Artur84

Dub No Bike With My Head – Dublin Resists Bikes

12/11/2014

Participants thought traveling by bike was inconvenient, dangerous, and too hard to deal with in a wet climate...

tiger beetle by freedigitalphotos.net and sippakorn

All Speed, No Control. Daft Beetles

09/11/2014

To take the sprinting gold from the tiger beetle, a person would have to hit 480 miles per hour....

Blue Ice by freedigitalphotos.net and Cnaene

From the Frozen Aisle : One Entire Bison

08/11/2014

The Yukagir bison mummy, as it is named, has a complete brain, heart, blood vessels and digestive system...

http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00792/abstract

Leaders Need to Look Healthy, Not Intelligent

07/11/2014

It it always pays for aspiring leaders to look healthy...

Beer Without Biff : Putting the Flavour Back in Alcohol-Free

06/11/2014

Beer: making 'alcohol-free' varieties more palatable for the consumer...

Resveratrol Doubts

03/11/2014

Resveratrol supplementation may actually oppose the effects of exercise...

Newly-Observed Planet-Forming Binary System

02/11/2014

Observations on a planet-forming system which is only a few million years old and lies about 450 light-years from Earth...

Milk : Nature’s Stinking Fraud

01/11/2014

A high milk intake in women and men is not accompanied by a lower risk of fracture and instead may be associated with a higher rate of death...

giant tortoise by James P. Gibbs, SUNY-ESF

Big Mofo Tortoises Boss the Galapagos

31/10/2014

A population of endangered giant tortoises, which once dwindled to just over a dozen, has recovered on the Galapagos island of Español...

I Am Glacier, Hear Me Sing

30/10/2014

Individual icequakes at the glacier base can exhibit harmonic properties....

mosquito by freedigitalphotos.net and sweetcrisis

Text Messages to Combat Malaria

29/10/2014

Text message reminders to take malaria medication can help fight the disease by boosting the rates at which patients complete their medication regimen...

Population Growth and Sustainability. Compatible?

28/10/2014

Efforts towards sustainability would be directed more productively towards reducing our impact as much as possible through technological and social innovation...