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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...

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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...

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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. ...

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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....

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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....

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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...

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...

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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....

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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....

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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'....

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...

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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...

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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....