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Fracking Earthquakes are Only the Start – Wait Till You See What it Does to Your Water Supply

17/02/2016

Stanford University expert on the health impacts of fossil fuels studies groundwater quality at oil and gas fields...

The Timeline of Being a Woman

17/02/2016

Political activist Lisa Muggeridge chronicles the ways culture, politics and society combine to control women's lives....

Are You Being Servo’d? Cybathlon: The Olympics of Assistive Technologies

16/02/2016

A global Olympic-style competition to advance assistive & robotic technologies...

Smile, Or You’re on Report. How Your Wellness Can Pay For Your Manager’s Ski Trip

15/02/2016

How to increase employee wellness and motivation by tying 10% of managerial salary increases to health initiatives...

If You’d Like Less Brain Volume, Press the Red Button Now.

14/02/2016

Neurologists suggest that poor physical fitness in middle age may be linked to a smaller brain size later on....

Got some spinifex on ya, cock? Bio-Engineering Superthin Condoms

13/02/2016

Fibers from the Australian native spinifex grass are being used to improve latex that could be used to make condoms as thin as a human hair without any loss in strength...

Edging It, Or Not. The One Small Step that Stops Teens Taking Risks

31/01/2016

Teenagers are notorious risktakers, but new research suggests there is a way to calm them down. Report...

Exercise Alone Won’t Help You Slim! But what DOES work?

30/01/2016

Why you won't lose weight by exercising constantly, and what you can do about it...

Thwack! Feel the Flow with Pressure-Sensitive Rubber Gloves

27/01/2016

More than mere Marigolds, Tokyo University researchers develop pressure-sensitive rubber gloves for medical workers....

Wanna Swap some Cells? Get Some Acoustic Tweezers in Your Handbag

26/01/2016

Acoustic tweezers provide much needed pluck for 3-D bioprinting. But what do they do? Report...

Eat Your Way to Better Sleep

19/01/2016

Diet-based recommendations might be used to improve sleep in those with poor sleep quality...

Whipworm, Roundworm, Parasites. What did the Romans ever do for us?

17/01/2016

Roman toilets gave no clear health benefit, and Romanization actually spread parasites ...

Sweat it Out. Cracking Lower Back Pain

13/01/2016

Exercise associated with prevention of low back pain ...

Glowing With Health – Fluorescent Agent Helps Cancer Surgery

10/01/2016

Injectable Agent Illuminates Cancer During Surgery...

Did You Really Want to do That? Free Will Gets Computer Analysed

05/01/2016

Berlin researchers test mechanisms involved in decision-making...

Weed or Wine – What’s Your Poison?

01/01/2016

No easy answers in UW study of legal marijuana's impact on alcohol use ...

A Bounteous New Year to All (but save it ’til you’re hungry)

31/12/2015

Let hunger be your guide. Eating when we are not hungry is bad for our health...

Klever Kitty! Scientists Isolate the Antidepressant Component of Ketamine

27/12/2015

Team IDs brain circuit involved in party drug's antidepressant effect ...

The Effortless Life-Extending Breakthrough You Have to Try

20/12/2015

Face cream ingredient found to mimic life-extending effects of a calorie restriction diet ...

Who’s the Innovator When it Comes To Scratch? Pimp Your Toothbrush.

15/12/2015

How satisfied we are with our toothbrush depends a lot on the sound of the bristles scrubbing against the enamel....

Episodic or Semantic: What’s Your Memory Type?

14/12/2015

New research shows that the tendency to remember episodic details versus facts is reflected in intrinsic brain patterns...

A more chaotic brain state: New Data on How LSD Works

13/12/2015

LSD changes consciousness by reorganizing human brain networks ...

Tuck In! Do Plus-Sized Models Promote Obesity?

12/12/2015

Plus-sized models in advertising linked to rising obesity rates: Study ...

Will Work For Pies: Providing Food Makes Better Workers

09/12/2015

Breaking bread with colleagues boosts productivity. The benefits of providing food at work...

Does Texter’s Thumb Count? Worldwide Injuries Plummet in the Internet Era

08/12/2015

Global toll of injuries down by almost a third since 1990 ...

Heads Up! Ways to Recognise Phonebies and Digital Deadwalkers

05/12/2015

Distracted Walking: a Serious Issue for You, not Me...

Laugh at the Mosquitos: Eradicate Itching, Forever!

03/12/2015

Researchers evaluate transcranial direct current stimulation to eradicate itching...

Brain Strain: What You Don’t Want to Know (But Need To) About Cannabis

01/12/2015

Study shows white matter damage caused by 'skunk-like' cannabis ...

Not Painless. Stuart Semple’s ‘My Sonic Youth’ Addresses Male Suicide

28/11/2015

If you're male and under 45, suicide is your most likely cause of death. Stuart Semple's recent project My Sonic Youth addresses the issue....

Finding Your Happy Place (with MRI): the Neural Structures of Happiness

25/11/2015

Kyoto University researchers narrow in on the neural structures behind happiness...

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