Category: News

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is! – Anne Frank

Samantha Cristoforetti by NASA 620

Stretching Your Spacelegs for a Landing on Mars: NASA’s Workout

03/10/2015

Assault courses on Mars? NASA studies physical performance after spaceflight...

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Dan Booth

The Damage Television Does to Your Kids: Proven!

02/10/2015

Falling TVs causing increasing number of severe neck and head injuries in children ...

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Grovel and Go. Why Volkswagen Hope You’ll Forgive and Forget

01/10/2015

Study: Companies like Volkswagen often apologize, silence stakeholders, forget the scandal ...

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So Long, Smog! Small Scale Nuclear Fusion Advance

29/09/2015

Small-scale nuclear fusion may be a new energy source ...

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Avoiding That Long Dark Moment Waiting for ‘PIN OK’. Service Technology Improvements

27/09/2015

Dining technology use is no measure of value, Clemson researchers find ...

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Power Up! Green Storage for Green Energy

26/09/2015

A rechargeable battery to power a home from rooftop solar panels...

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foot by music4life

Can You Tell Your Toes Apart? Try this Toe Test

25/09/2015

Research from Oxford University suggests we may have a problem telling our toes apart...

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I didn’t forget your Birthday, I just have Delayed Remembering

24/09/2015

Kids can remember tomorrow what they forgot today ...

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beans by stickfish

Beans, Beans, They’re Good for the Heart (and belly)

22/09/2015

Beef vs. bean meals: Both provide similar feeling of fullness ...

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Rooting for You: Beetroot Shots for Brains and Brawn

21/09/2015

Drinking high nitrate beetroot juice improves both sprint performance and decision-making during prolonged intermittent exercise such as rugby and football...

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Phleghm-ily Affair. How Smokers breed Smokers

20/09/2015

If mum or dad is a smoker, their teenager is more likely to be a smoker too. Report...

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Up Yours? Blame Saint Peter for the Two Fingered Salute

19/09/2015

Ulnar nerve damage caused original benediction sign ...

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How to Attract the Opposite Sex, a Scientific Approach

18/09/2015

Chapman University publishes research on attractiveness and mating ...

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Should We Have Government Controls on Salted Junk Food?

17/09/2015

Call for government to curb the production and sale of cheap salty junk food ...

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dice by Alexas_Fotos

Dither, and the Cat Dies. Quantum Probability and Irrational Decisions

16/09/2015

You're not irrational, you're just quantum probabilistic ...

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More Free Energy! Sun-Tracking Small Solar Cells

13/09/2015

Inspired by art, lightweight solar cells track the sun ...

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cloud atlas

Loitered Lens: Cloud Atlas

13/09/2015

Huge guitar, soulful vocals, a strong rhythm section and great use of atmospherics...

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pig by Sweetaholic

The Rise of Smell-Based Marketing and Why Scents Sell

12/09/2015

People remember 35% of what they smell, compared with only 5% of what they see, 2% of what they hear and 1% of what they touch....

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Twisted Theory. Unravelling the Mechanics of Knots

10/09/2015

New model predicts the force required to tie simple knots....

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nanodiamond

They’re Floaty Light! Levitating Glowing Nanodiamonds

09/09/2015

Researchers use laser to levitate glowing nanodiamonds in vacuum ...

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Polar Bears by AMNHR. Rockwell feature

On Thin Ice. What Will Polar Bears Eat After Global Warming?

08/09/2015

Polar bears marooned on land might, where the conditions are right, stave off starvation by turning to alternate food sources....

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Sunshine on a Rainy Day : Splitting Water Molecules for Clean Energy

07/09/2015

Rice University researchers demo solar water-splitting technology ...

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coffee by eliasfalla

Energy for You, Energy for Your Car : Storing Fuel in Coffee Grounds

06/09/2015

Scientists have developed a simple process to treat waste coffee grounds to allow them to store methane...

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Even Sitting Still, Police are Prone to Injury

05/09/2015

Police at risk of traffic injuries in stopped cars, as well as when speeding, study finds ...

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defibrillator by yourschantz

Are You Next? Fizzy Drinks and Cardiac Arrest : The Link

04/09/2015

Carbonated drinks linked with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest of cardiac origin ...

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Integral satellite by ESA-D. Ducros

Staging a Skyfall : How to Bring Down a Satellite

02/09/2015

Controlled Skyfall - How to get rid of a satellite after its retirement ...

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More Cash, Less Ash. Raising pay can reduce smoking rates

01/09/2015

Raising pay can reduce smoking rates ...

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motherboard by Blickpixel

Want more Female IT Professionals? Make Computer Rooms Less Geeky

31/08/2015

University of Washington set about working out how to make IT classrooms less daunting...

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More Women at Work, More Murders. Gender Equality and Homicide Increase

30/08/2015

The greater a country's gender equality in employment, the higher its homicide rate ...

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We Can Predict that For You Wholesale? Murder Forecasting hits real life.

28/08/2015

New knowledge about murderers who commit what is called spontaneous domestic homicide...

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