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A picture of an empty London street by Carl Byron Batson

A Stab in the Dark : Mugger Patterns

09/11/2013

The first study to look at the hourly pattern of street robbery in London found a 160% rise in the rate of muggings during the hours of darkness in the capital...

Monkey Mindgames : The Brain-Machine Interface

08/11/2013

In a study led by Duke researchers, monkeys have learned to control the movement of both arms on an avatar using just their brain activity....

A picture of a happy couple by Carl Byron Batson

When Arguing : Wives Matter More

06/11/2013

When it comes to keeping the peace, it's more important for wives – than for husbands – to calm down after a heated argument...

A picture of some onions growing by Sunny Keenan

Dustbowl II : Our Dying Soil

05/11/2013

Cultivating soil continuously for too long destroys the bacteria which convert the organic matter into nutrients...

Why Computers Can’t Tell Jokes

04/11/2013

Unlike digital computers, which are designed to follow rules, the computations performed by the neural networks that make up our brain are inherently context dependent...

A picture of a man and a lightbulb by Michagan State University

Measuring Creativity

03/11/2013

A team of researchers led by a Michigan State University neuroscientist has created a quick but reliable test that can measure a person's creativity from single spoken words....

Hello Girls! Women Gawp at Cleavage Too

02/11/2013

Though the men in the study exhibited such visual behavior consistently, the researchers found that women's eye patterns actually were similar to men's. ...

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BaccaRAT? Scientists Create Casino For Rodents

31/10/2013

For the study, rats gambled for sugar pellets using a slot machine-style device that featured three flashing lights and two levers they could push with their paws. ...

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

What’s That Smell? Gaming and Ignored Body Signals

30/10/2013

What's that smell? Immersive video games can numb you to realizing important body signals in real life....

A picture of Hurrican Sandy Damage by Google and NOAA

Stormageddon. Can the UK Learn from Sandy?

28/10/2013

There are some parcels of land that Mother Nature owns, and when she comes to visit, she visits...

How Smartphones Can Ruin Your Career

27/10/2013

87 percent of people said answering a call was rarely or never acceptable in business meetings....

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Clean Hands Cause Unfounded Optimism

26/10/2013

Test subjects who washed their hands after a task were more optimistic than those who did not wash their hands, but it hampered their future performance in the same task domain...

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Israeli Scientist Finds Un-Gay Insects

24/10/2013

Tel Aviv University researchers insist that their same-sex mating insects are NOT gay. No sir. No gay bugs here in Israel....

Bloodstock 2014 – Updated Lineup

22/10/2013

Bloodstock Open Air announce the addition of Megadeth to the 2014 lineup...

A picture of an old man by Carl Byron Batson

Dad Rock : How Music Taste Changes

17/10/2013

As we settle down and middle age begins to creep in, the last musical age, as identified by the researchers, is dominated by 'sophisticated' – such as jazz and classical – and 'unpretentious' –...

A picture of an old woman's hands by Carl Byron Batson

Why Does Your Heart Slow Down?

16/10/2013

One of the reasons for the age-dependent reduction in maximum heart rate is that aging depresses the spontaneous electrical activity of the heart's natural pacemaker...

A picture of a comet over Earth by Terry Bakker

Desert Diamonds Point to Crashed Comet

14/10/2013

Comets contain the very secrets to unlocking the formation of our solar system and this discovery gives us an unprecedented opportunity to study comet material first hand...

Do You Have Cyberchondria? Google it.

13/10/2013

When you look at a medical book, you might not see all the possibilities at once, but online you're presented with so many...

A picture of tangled ropes, nets, beach debris. By Sean Keenan

Einstein Was Better Connected than You

08/10/2013

A tangled web. Einstein had more extensive connections between certain parts of his cerebral hemispheres than most....

A picture of a table set for two by Sean Keenan

Instagram Puts You Off Your Food

05/10/2013

If you're on Instagram all day looking at all of the salads your friends post, you're probably not going to enjoy your next salad...

A picture of weathered wood by Sean Keenan

Avoid Bad Luck with Science

03/10/2013

Our findings suggest that not all actions to undo a jinx are equally effective...

Mythbusting: Large Immigrant Families and Poverty

30/09/2013

The number of children in immigrant families is not the primary reason more children are living in poverty, a Rutgers study has found....

Animals Feel the Rhythm of the Ocean

29/09/2013

Animals living in marine environments keep to their schedules with the aid of multiple independent—and, in at least some cases, interacting—internal clocks....

A picture of multicoloured lightsby Sean Keenan

Monocentric Lens for Pin-Sharp Surveillance

28/09/2013

'Next year, we'll build an 85-megapixel imager with a 120-degree field of view, more than a dozen sensors, and an F/2 lens – all in a volume 'roughly the size of a walnut'...

A picture of guitars by Carl Byron Batson

Wait for the Drop. Anticipation and Music

27/09/2013

The auditory cortex performs a role beyond just processing sound. Rather, this area of the brain appears to be activated during other activities that require learning and thought, such as confirming...

Remember Agincourt : French Horn Causes Deafness

26/09/2013

Between 11 percent and 22 percent of the participants showed some form of hearing loss. No data yet on the English Horn....

A Final Use for Crap CDs

25/09/2013

While other researchers have experimented with using zinc oxide to degrade organic pollutants, Tsai's team is the first to grow the photocatalyst on an optical disk....

A picture of a Manga girl with sword by Dan Booth

Violent Drunks : Not What, but Where

24/09/2013

The context in which drinking occurs also appears to play a role in violence against partners...

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Men Cheat Because they’re Horny

23/09/2013

Unsurprisingly, men cheat on partners because they act on their sexual impulses. Less predictably, research suggests these urges are stronger than womens'....