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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...

A picture of sawdust, wood shavings, wood, abstract

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. ...

The Archive : Obsession, Festivals and Time

10/09/2013

There are so many regulations. I think the way the UK is policed these days it would be very difficult to do free festivals...

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...

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...

Monstrous Energy – Soft Drinks and Fights

19/08/2013

'Children who drank 4 or more soft drinks per day were more than twice as likely to destroy things' ...

The Killer Bean. Coffee Mortality

18/08/2013

Too much coffee will kill you. Not enough and you'll feel like you're dead anyway....

So Buff. Hypermasculinity and Sports Mags

15/08/2013

'Male athletes are rarely, if ever, depicted in sexualized, submissive, objectifying or non-athletic positions in sports magazines.' Until now....

Mediterranean Diet also Prevents Strokes

14/08/2013

Already known for preventing heart disease, the Mediterranean diet is now shown to prevent strokes....

Fifty Shades of Domestic Abuse

13/08/2013

The main characters' relationship in the best-selling novel Fifty Shades of Grey, for example, helps perpetuate the problem of intimate partner violence against women...

Johnny No-Friends is Mr Niceguy

12/08/2013

Children who overestimate their popularity are less likely to be bullies than those who underestimate or hold more accurate assessments of their social standing...