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Out of Body Robotic Stroking

01/08/2013

Neuroscientists reveal a multisensory technique that convinces the patient they're inhabiting another person's body....

Grizzly Bear Berry Bonanza

31/07/2013

'The percentage of fruit in grizzly bear scat in recent years has almost doubled'...

Food Tastes Better with Rituals

26/07/2013

Experiments to investigate how ritualistic behaviors might influence our perception and consumption of various foods...

Love Drug’s a Dud

23/07/2013

Oxytocin appears to be the reason stressful social situations reverberate long past the event...

So Much For Antioxidants

22/07/2013

So, it's a choice between exercise and vegetables then? Bring the pies....

Rebuilding Ears with Mutant Mouse Research

21/07/2013

New research, based on the study of mutant mice, leads to breakthrough in human hearing rehabilitation...

Break a habit – Live Longer

20/07/2013

People who eat during times of stress typically seek the foods they eat out of habit – regardless of how healthy or unhealthy that food is....

Stop the Voices! Internal Monologues and Health

19/07/2013

internal speech makes use of a system that is primarily involved in processing external speech...

Dogs learn human behaviour

18/07/2013

dogs are able to reproduce familiar actions and novel actions after different delays ̶ familiar actions after intervals as long as ten minutes; novel tasks after a delay of one minute...

A picture of Albert Hofmann's biographers

Mystic Chemist: The LSD Biography of Albert Hofmann

16/07/2013

' a chemist who does not get mystic looking at the wonders of creation that he's researching is not a real chemist' - Albert Hofmann...

Evolution of fins towards land

15/07/2013

Why did animals with limbs win the race to invade land over those with fins? More than just evolution? ...

Proving life on a thermal level

04/07/2013

Korean team shows how to measure the thermal signatures of single cells and assess their biological activity...

Scabs inspire healthy

20/06/2013

Human scabs have become the model for development of an advanced wound dressing material that shows promise for speeding the healing process...

Pedometers Motivates Heavy Feet

06/06/2013

"Pedometers can help motivate people to get up and out more" - say lab bound scientists...

What Money Can’t Buy – The Moral Limits of Markets [Review]

05/06/2013

Like all manifestations of human agency, the market is just a tool, a means of negotiating and managing resources. If the markets can corrupt or wreck havoc, it is because we let them. ...

Mrs T’s Southern Stuffed Ham

16/04/2013

I will be thinking of Maggie when I next have a big ol’ lick...

Autistic Facial Recognition

01/04/2013

Facial Recognition : Some people diagnosed with autism cannot easily recognize faces -- a deficit linked to the impairments in social interactions considered to be the hallmark of the disorder....

Ocean chemistry too ‘boring’ to support life

31/03/2013

UC Riverside-led research team provides the first comprehensive view of early ocean chemistry and its relationship to early organisms....

Reintroducing the Quantum Drum

28/03/2013

mechanical micro-drum used as quantum memory...

Our Phallus-Shaped Ancestors

27/03/2013

Strange phallus-shaped creature provides crucial missing link - discovery pushes fossil record back 200 million years...

Fat worms confirm biofuel experiment

24/03/2013

Fat worms confirm that researchers from Michigan State University have successfully engineered a (biofuel) plant with oily leaves...

Sugar Coated Stem Cells

23/03/2013

Scientists have used sugar-coated scaffolding to move a step closer to the routine use of stem cells in the clinic and unlock their huge potential to cure diseases from Alzheimer's to diabetes....

Light particles illuminate the vacuum

22/03/2013

In a vacuum, there is energy and noise, the existence of which follows the uncertainty principle in quantum mechanics....

Superbugs and Antibiotic Resistance : Kryptonite Discovered

21/03/2013

New Research suggests that superbugs and antibiotic resistance may have a critical weakness, after all....

Discovery : Two New Mushroom Species

20/03/2013

Spanish researchers have headed the discovery of two new mushroom species belonging to the Hydnum genus, a type of fungus commonly used in cooking....

A Good Kind of Pain

19/03/2013

Pain Management | Scientists discover that pain may be experienced as pleasant if something worse has been avoided...

Working on the premise that too much of a good thing can be a killer, the scientists have advanced previous researchers' methods of manipulating an enzyme that is key to how influenza replicates and...

Why sourdough bread resists mold

16/03/2013

Sourdough bread resists mold, unlike conventionally leavened bread....

Fiery Hot Magma

15/03/2013

Massive lava flows may have given rise to two distinct rock types on Mercury's surface. But is it Fiery Hot Magma? ...

City layout key to predicting riots

12/03/2013

Developed by researchers at UCL, the model highlights the importance of considering the layout of cities in order for police to suppress disorder as quickly as possible once a riot is in progress....

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