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Tea-drinkers Live Longer

01/09/2014

Drinking tea reduces non-cardiovascular mortality by 24%...

A picture of an old man by Carl Byron Batson

‘Too Old’? Depends on where you are.

31/08/2014

People aged 70 and over who identify themselves as 'old' feel worse about their own health...

Weed-Smoking Lessens Wife-Beating

30/08/2014

634 couples found that the more often they smoked marijuana, the less likely they were to engage in domestic violence...

How Ex-Churchgoers Reconstruct Morality

29/08/2014

Most former churchgoers experienced deep crises of identity as they questioned their previous moral assumptions and behaviors....

Henley Business School Music Industry Grants

28/08/2014

A UK Grant available to support SME owners to study an MBA at Henley Business School...

Blame it on Sleep Drunkenness

27/08/2014

Sleep drunkenness disorder involves confusion or inappropriate behavior...

How Sleeping Makes the Piano Easier

26/08/2014

Insight into the role of sleep in learning motor skills requiring new movement sequences....

Workplace Misery is a Good Thing

25/08/2014

Positive and negative dynamics affect the working environment....

The Lightning Storms of the Moon

24/08/2014

Periodic storms of solar energetic particles may have significantly altered the properties of the soil in the moon's coldest craters....

Fretful Smartphone Loss Trauma IS REAL!

23/08/2014

The loss of one's smart phone not only represents an immediate disconnection from one's online contacts but is also a potential privacy and security risk...

A picture of World of Sex by Carl Byron Batson

For Women, Love Makes Sex Better

22/08/2014

Love and commitment can make sex physically more satisfying for many women...

A picture of zombies on the tube by Dan Booth

Ditch the Car for a Slimmer Figure

21/08/2014

Commuting to work by active (walking or cycling) and public modes of transport is linked to lower body weight and body fat...

Steady Pink Collar Job versus Blue Collar Bravado

19/08/2014

For men without a four-year college degree, frontline allied healthcare jobs may be the ticket to a stable middle-class lifestyle. Report...

Drug-Taking Kids Ignore Feds Shocker

18/08/2014

The RAVE Act has clearly been ineffective in curtailing drug use at club events...

Telescope Alert : Venus and Jupiter

17/08/2014

the closest planet pairing of 2014 -- and not just any planets, but the two brightest ones: Venus and Jupiter...

stardust by UC Berkeley and Andrew Westphal.

NASA Finds Interstellar Stardust

16/08/2014

If confirmed, these particles would be the first samples of contemporary interstellar dust....

Organised Penguins Find Food

15/08/2014

Penguins forage in groups, may synchronize their underwater movements, and potentially cooperate ...

Image by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, Creative Commons License

How Geckos Stick

14/08/2014

Exploring the subtleties of geckos' adhesion system mechanism...

Red Fang Free London Show

13/08/2014

RED FANG have announced a free show in London to round off their summer European tour dates....

Aussies Develop Tractor Beam

12/08/2014

ANU team develops simple wave generators, enabling them to move floating objects at will...

Caffeine Reduces TInnitus

10/08/2014

Incidence of reported tinnitus was 15 percent lower among those women who consumed 450 to 599 mg/day of caffeine....

Shut Down Ivory Markets to Save Wildlife

09/08/2014

The message is simple: to save elephants, all ivory markets must close and all ivory stockpiles must be destroyed...

Aggression, not Depression, Fuels Drunken Yobbery

08/08/2014

Aggressive behavior increases adolescent drinking, depression doesn't...

job application by freedigital and phasinphoto

Dignity of Work Remains, Even When Unpaid

07/08/2014

Analysis shows that welfare-to-work schemes indeed increase the life satisfaction, happiness and feelings of life worth of the jobless....

A picture of a video game joypad by Freedigitalphotos/Arvind Balaraman

Video Games Make Kids Bad (Again)

06/08/2014

Possible effects of violent video games go well beyond violence to apply to substance use, risky driving and risk-taking sexual behavior...

Phone-a-Medic Scheme Fails

05/08/2014

Study shows that in telephone triage the workload is only redistributed, whilst the costs are the same....

Atlantic Warming Fuels Pacific Megawinds

04/08/2014

The main cause of the Pacific climate trends of the past 20 years had its origin in the Atlantic Ocean...

Timothy Yeo / CQT, National University of Singapore

Misinformation Diffusing Online

03/08/2014

We are increasingly reliant on information we obtain from online sources. However, our implicit faith in the validity of that information can be counterproductive...