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Listening : Modes and Strategies

20/01/2014

Listening is largely, though not exclusively, a conscious activity. ...

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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....

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...

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In Search of Time Travellers

06/01/2014

If there were time travelers among us, would they be on social media? How would you find them? Could you Google them?...

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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...

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 ...

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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...

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Antibiotic Attack!

27/12/2013

Without effective antibiotics, any surgery – even minor ones – will become extremely risky....

Virgin Birth : The Scientific View

25/12/2013

0.5% of women affirmed their status as virgins and did not use assisted reproductive technology, yet reported virgin births...

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Odd or Even? Your Brain Sucks

24/12/2013

If the brain is like a computer, why do brains make mistakes that computers don't?...

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Weight Loss is Easier for White Women

22/12/2013

African-American women don't lose as much weight as Caucasian women in response to the same behavioral interventions of calorie restriction....

A picture of a cocktail by Freedigitalphotos.net/Maggie Smith

Vodka-Fuelled Texts. We’ve All Done It.

20/12/2013

Successfully text messaging 'O Canada' using evaporated vodka. Why ever not?...

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Kentucky Fried 3D Printing

09/12/2013

In a future where any garage, shed or corner of a living room could be turned into a miniature factory, what will be the point of large scale manufacturing?...

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Thermionic Generators, Frictionless Energy

05/12/2013

Thermionic generators use the temperature difference between a hot and a cold metallic plate to create electricity....

Sexual Frustration = Early Death

01/12/2013

'Expecting sex without any sexual reward was detrimental to their health and cut their lives short.' At least they don't get into fights....

A pictue of hedgewars by Aalto University

Gaming makes you samey.

23/11/2013

'the more competitive the gaming gets, the more in sync are the emotional responses of the players'. Computer game research suggests gameplayers become more like each other....

Flunking Sleepy Teenagers

13/11/2013

Teenagers who go to bed late during the school year are more prone to academic and emotional difficulties in the long run. News item...

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Splashback : The Physics of Urination

10/11/2013

Randy Hurd of Brigham Young University hopes to eventually create an optimization function to find the ideal approach for urinal usage. ...

Monkey Mindgames : The Brain-Machine Interface

08/11/2013

In a study led by Duke researchers, monkeys have learned to control the movement of both arms on an avatar using just their brain activity....

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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...

Aesthetics and the Art of Audio Field Recording

05/11/2013

'What is the artistic element of so seemingly ‘passive’ an activity as pointing a mic and pushing the record button?' Steven Miller teaches us how to record, and how to listen....

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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