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Immigrant Sahara Dust Outbreak

21/09/2013

Concentrations of inhalable particles more than doubled during a major Saharan dust intrusion in Houston, Texas...

Wide-Faced Lies

20/09/2013

Men with wider faces are more aggressive, less trustworthy and more prone to engaging in deception...

A picture of flamenco dancers by Sean Keenan

Got Rhythm? You Probly Talk Gud Too

19/09/2013

It may be that musical training, with an emphasis on rhythmic skills, exercises the auditory-system, leading to strong sound-to-meaning associations that are so essential in learning to read...

Fingertip music picture by Freeditigalphotos.net/Ambro

Let your fingers do the talking

17/09/2013

When the communicator's finger slightly rubs an everyday object, the physical interaction creates an ad hoc speaker that makes it possible to hear the recorded sounds....

A picture of UFOMammut by Carl Byron Batson

UFOMammut Magickal Mastery Tour

16/09/2013

The 'Magickal Mastery Tour' is a journey through fifteen years of Ufomammut music, performing songs from Godlike Snake to ORO....

A picture of an angry woman in rubber by Carl Byron Batson

Your Pain, My Pleasure. Understanding Sadism

15/09/2013

Exploring the 'dark triad' of human personality: psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism, psychologists examine sadism and its effects....

Butterfly Wings Inspire New Technologies

14/09/2013

By using design ideas from nature we are able to work towards the development of applications in a range of different technologies....

Helen Knowles : GV ART [Exhibition Details]

13/09/2013

Knowles selects footage that portrays the women’s euphoria and attempts to capture the intense emotion of childbirth ...

House Been Repossessed? Blame Robots

12/09/2013

Our findings show that, in this new world of ultrafast robot algorithms, the behavior of the market undergoes a fundamental and abrupt transition to another world where conventional market theories...

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Ker-Schnick! Carbon Nanotube Saw Developed

11/09/2013

Science comes one step closer to sci-fi with the development of the carbon-nanotube saw....

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Two-way Killer. Guns Cause Lung Malfunction

10/09/2013

Ironic. Fumes from military arms are causing a decline in lung function shortly after firing practice. ...

What’s in your pee?

08/09/2013

Urine analysis using colour, taste and smell (called uroscopy) was one of the primary methods early physicians used to diagnose disease. Even today, millions of chemically based urine tests are...

Do Pauses in Texting Mean Lies?

07/09/2013

We are starting to identify signs given off by individuals that aren't easily tracked by humans...

Yes, You DO Have More Gravity

06/09/2013

This is a world-first effort to portray the gravity field for all countries of our planet with unseen detail...

Bizarre Nebulae Alignment

05/09/2013

The alignment we're seeing for these bipolar nebulae indicates something bizarre about star systems within the central bulge...

Tour de France Riders Live Longer

04/09/2013

'data on the long-term outcomes and causes of death in elite endurance cyclists is of particular interest'. That, and performance enhancers.......

Weight Loss for the Lazy

03/09/2013

For preventing weight gain, the intensity of the activity matters more than duration...

New Element Discovery Confirmed

02/09/2013

Lund University researchers discover new, super-heavy element. As yet un-named, expect to see it prefixing the word 'Metal' in record reviews sometime soon....

Mice on Cocaine

01/09/2013

For mice, "learning about the drug" can mean seeking it out to the exclusion of meeting other needs...

Video Games (Don’t) Cause Violence Shocker

31/08/2013

General forms of youth violence were linked with aggressiveness and stress rather than with video game violence...

Words and Pictures. Which is Which?

30/08/2013

Hearing the word for the object that was being suppressed boosted that object into their vision...

Choons Cause Crashes

27/08/2013

Male novice drivers in particular make more frequent and serious mistakes listening to their preferred music than their less aggressive, female counterparts...

Aerated Poo Equals Enviro-Win

26/08/2013

Beetles living in cow pats may reduce emissions of the key greenhouse gas - methane...

Nanoparticles in Food: The New GM

25/08/2013

Nanoparticles enter the food chain. And to think we were all still worried about mere genetic modification....

Earworm Misery : Incurable Auditory Hallucination

23/08/2013

Most patients realize they are hallucinating, and find the music intrusive and occasionally unpleasant. There is no cure....

Landfill Nation : Reluctance to Recycle

22/08/2013

Insight into the psychological processes influencing recycling behavior....

Fracking Bad News

21/08/2013

109 tremors were recorded in Youngstown, Ohio and new research in Geophysical Research-Solid Earth reveals how this may be the result of shale fracking...