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Avoid Fructose!

09/01/2013

Fructose Ingestion and Cerebral, Metabolic, and Satiety Responses. Associations between fructose consumption and weight gain. Booze and fried bananas also implicated. ...

Space travel is harmful to the brain

08/01/2013

As if space travel was not already filled with enough dangers, a new study out today in the journal PLOS ONE shows that cosmic radiation could accelerate the onset of Alzheimer's disease....

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Relax. You Can Change

02/01/2013

young people, middle-aged people and older people all believe that they have changed a lot in the past -- but that they will change relatively little in the future....

Higher, Drunker, Faster: Female Students Binge-Drinking

01/01/2013

The amount drunk per unit of time is higher among women. In other words, even though male students drink more often, females do so more intensively in shorter periods of time...

Putting electronic cigarettes to the test

31/12/2012

Electronic cigarettes are experiencing somewhat of a boom at the moment. An estimated two million people in Germany have already turned to the vapor cigarette, which many view as a healthy...

The Water Cooler of life

30/12/2012

The health benefits of 'water clubs' in care homes for the elderly, where residents gather together regularly to drink water, live longer....

How cold will a winter be in 2 years?

29/12/2012

How well are the most important climate models able to predict the weather conditions for the coming year or even the next decade?...

HIV protection gel!

27/12/2012

Vaginal microbicide gel may offer a promising strategy for prevention and protection against HIV transmission....

Consuming putrid food can be lethal as it allows bacterial pathogens to enter the digestive system. To detect signs of decay and thus allowing us and other animals to avoid such food poisoning is one...

Nobody’s perfect [Don’t Worry]

25/12/2012

Researchers at Cambridge and Cardiff have found that, on average, a normal healthy person carries approximately 400 potentially damaging DNA variants and two variants known to be associated directly...

Plant growth in zero-gravity

24/12/2012

It is well known that plant growth patterns are influenced by a variety of stimuli, gravity being one amongst many. What happens to plant growth when you remove gravity?...

‘Experts’: lower fat diets reduce weight and BMI

23/12/2012

Yeah yeah yeah: Reducing overall fat in the typical diet can lead to small reductions in body weight in adults that could be highly significant on a population-wide scale. ...

Synthetic fuel could eliminate US need for crude oil

22/12/2012

The United States could eliminate the need for crude oil by using a combination of coal, natural gas and non-food crops to make synthetic fuel, a team of Princeton researchers has found....

The many maps of the brain

21/12/2012

Your brain has at least four different senses of location – and perhaps as many as 10....

Magnetic fish point to Santa

20/12/2012

Christmas carp at Czech markets suggest fish geomagnetic sensing capabilities...

Extraverted gorillas enjoy longer lives

19/12/2012

Gorillas with an extravert personality live longer than their more introverted peers, a study suggests....

Pokemon & face-recognition processes

18/12/2012

As human beings, we have a highly sensitive and efficient cognitive and neural mechanism for recognizing faces. Pokemon provides useful tools for facial recognition. ...

Trapped in a Raid: Psychology and World of Warcraft

17/12/2012

The sense of immersion in role-play and computer games is sometimes viewed as dangerous, as players' strong perceptions of fictional worlds are assumed to make them lose contact with reality. ...

Advice for bag-in-box wine drinkers: Keep it cool

16/12/2012

Advice for bag-in-box wine drinkers: Keep it cool. Published in ACS' Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, it emphasizes the importance of storing these popular, economical vintages at cool...

Alzheimer’s: Potential Breakthrough

15/12/2012

Despite researchers' best efforts, no drug exists that can stop the onslaught of Alzheimer's disease. Review offers renewed optimism in fight against fatal neurodegenerative disease...

Smoking may worsen hangover after heavy drinking

14/12/2012

WARNING: People who like to smoke when they drink may be at greater risk of suffering a hangover the next morning. ...

New Galaxy Found! and it glows green…

13/12/2012

Many galaxies have a giant black hole at their centre that causes the gas around it to glow. However, in the case of green bean galaxies, the entire galaxy is glowing, not just the centre....

Tea As Irresponsible as whiskey?

11/12/2012

Put the kettle on? When tea drinkers were viewed as irresponsible as whiskey drinkers....

Origin of intelligence and mental illness linked to ancient genetic accident

04/12/2012

Scientists have discovered for the first time how humans – and other mammals – have evolved to have intelligence...

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Homicide Spreads like Germs

02/12/2012

"By using the principles of infectious disease control, we may be able to predict the spread of homicide and reduce the incidence of this crime,...

Don’t Sweat, Shake

01/12/2012

Mild vibrations may provide some of the same benefits to obese people as exercise ...

Invisibility: Somebody Else’s Problem

28/11/2012

A new UCLA psychology study shows that people often do not recall things they have seen — or at least walked by — hundreds of times....

Grapefruit Kills

27/11/2012

'Adverse effects include sudden death, acute kidney failure, respiratory failure, gastrointestinal bleeding, bone marrow suppression' Headsup on grapefruit/prescription drug combinations....

Dancing Swedish Girls are Happier

25/11/2012

Young girls can dance their way to better mental health. Symptoms like depression, stress, fatigue, and headaches are alleviated with regular dancing....

Smart Sellotape

24/11/2012

Scotch tape, a versatile household staple and a mainstay of holiday gift-wrapping, may have a new scientific application as a shape-changing "smart material."...

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