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Salmonella May Prevent Asthma

26/01/2014

Researchers from Germany have identified the mechanism by which Salmonella infections can reduce the incidence of asthma in mice....

A picture of camera bits and pieces by Vadim Sherbakov

3D Printing Fiddly Microstructures

25/01/2014

3D Printing grows up. Researchers demonstrate the printing of three microsystems featuring mechanical, microfluidic and electrical functionalities...

Drilling into Magma for Geothermal Energy

24/01/2014

Drilling into magma is a very rare occurrence anywhere in the world and this is only the second known instance, the first one, in 2007, being in Hawaii...

A Touch of Froth : Beer Dynamics.

23/01/2014

New research explains beer's rapid transformation from a liquid to a foamy state as the result of an impact....

A picture of Godzilla in London by Dan Booth

Measuring Schrodinger’s Quantum Cats

22/01/2014

University of Rochester researchers develop a method to measure quantum states whilst avoiding the uncertainty principle....

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Avoiding excess sunlight exposure is critical to prevent skin cancer, but not being exposed to it at all, out of fear or as a result of a certain lifestyle, could increase the risk of cardiovascular...

Scotland’s Abundant Tidal Energy

20/01/2014

The Pentland Firth is a prime candidate to house marine power projects because of its tidal currents, which are among the fastest in the British Isles....

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Do Narcissists Make Better Bosses?

19/01/2014

The risk-taking and persuasiveness of narcissists may make them strong leaders in the midst of chaos....

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Scientists Discover Nature’s Good Vibes

18/01/2014

Like the strings on a violin or the pipes of an organ, the proteins in the human body vibrate in different patterns, scientists have long suspected....

Mid-Life Memory Loss : It’s the Booze

17/01/2014

Middle-aged men who drink more than 36 grams of alcohol, or two and a half US drinks per day, may speed their memory loss by up to six years later on....

Is there a Sixth Sense?

16/01/2014

Do we have a sixth sense? A University of Melbourne study found that people could reliably sense when a change had occurred, even when they could not see exactly what had changed....

How to Game Kickstarter

15/01/2014

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”I/dropcapt ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you pitch it. Keyword triggerphrases guaranteed to prompt that Pavlovian give...

Do Kids Make You Happy or Sad?

14/01/2014

Happiness, unhappiness, and how often you've stood on a Lego brick in the small hours of the morning....

A picture of a school hallway by Michigan State University

No Breaks for Hip-Hop Students

13/01/2014

Time to fight the power. Black and Latino "hip-hop" students are disproportionately punished in urban schools. ...

An Alternative to Student Loans

12/01/2014

Students would commit to paying a fixed percentage of their income (6%) during their prime earning years ...

Why Do We Need Sleep?

11/01/2014

Sleep may be important because it weakens the connections among brain cells to save energy, avoid cellular stress, and maintain the ability of neurons to respond selectively to stimuli...

British Bulldog? UK Dogs and Aggression

09/01/2014

Nearly seven percent of owners responded that their dog barked, lunged, growled or actually bit when people came to the house, and five percent reported these behaviours on meeting people when out on...

Saudi Arabia’s First Dinosaurs

08/01/2014

Dinosaur fossils are exceptionally rare in the Arabian Peninsula, with only a handful of highly fragmented bones documented thus far....

Wind Power to Fight Wind Power

07/01/2014

Installing wind power plants at certain favorable locations in a power grid can make the grid more robust against extraneous disruptions...

A picture of books by freedigitalphotos.net/Danilo Rizzuti

You Are What you Read. Really.

05/01/2014

Reading a novel may cause changes in resting-state connectivity of the brain that persist...

Second Generation Biofuel Breakthrough

04/01/2014

The use of 'difficult-to-digest' sources, such as plant stems, wood chips, cardboard waste or insect / crustacean shells, offers a potential solution....

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London’s River of Filth

03/01/2014

Thousands of pieces of plastic have been discovered, submerged along the river bed of the upper Thames Estuary...

A picture of a car crash by Freedigitalphotos.net/Bill Longshaw

Dial, Drive, Die.

02/01/2014

Experienced adults were more than twice as likely to crash or have a near miss when dialing a cell phone as when they did not dial and drive...

Emotions mapped on the body. Credit: Aalto University and Turku PET Centre.

Can You Feel the Love Tonight?

01/01/2014

Emotions adjust not only our mental, but also our bodily states. This way they prepare us to react swiftly to the dangers, but also to opportunities ...

Post-Christmas Midriff Bulge? Blame Norm

31/12/2013

Eating behaviors can be transmitted socially...

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Who Will Save the Eels?

30/12/2013

Even though people have consumed it for millennia, the origin of the eel has long been shrouded in mystery. New studies explain all. ...

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Humans Beat Computers in Face-Recogniton

29/12/2013

Human beings are highly efficient at recognising familiar faces, even from very poor quality images. The trait now has forensics applications. News...

Airworthiness and Fatigue

28/12/2013

The power dissipation behavior of the lithium-ion battery is, in principle, the same as that for the fatigue of metals. Implications for air travel. News...