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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...

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...

Singapore Rolls Out Driverless Cars

20/08/2013

Driverless cars take to the streets of Singapore...

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....

Mediterranean Diet also Prevents Strokes

14/08/2013

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

Avoiding Brain-Damaged Cheerleaders

11/08/2013

neurocognitive assessment could be a useful tool to evaluate when cheerleaders with concussion have returned to normalized baseline measures...

How to Achieve a Well-Balanced Gut

10/08/2013

Healthy bio-flow. Or how to have good poos. In the absence of kale-shakes, Trebuchet news reports....

Sexy Shrooms : Psychoactive Evolutions

09/08/2013

Shrooms need family too. New research into the DNA structure and evolution of psychoactive mushrooms....

Isolating the Pain of Sunburn

07/08/2013

Isolating the Pain of Sunburn. Now a scientific possibility. Question is, should we?...

Practise Makes Perfect

05/08/2013

Scientists find out exactly why practise makes perfect...

Shopaholics are Sad

04/08/2013

Shopaholics are displaying deeper issues of self-esteem and depression, according to San Francisco scientists...

Out of Body Robotic Stroking

01/08/2013

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

Art and Mind 2013

31/07/2013

The hub of the UK art-science community met for a historic photo call at 2pm, Saturday 6 July at GV Art, 49 Chiltern St, London W1U 6LY....

Natural Particle Accelerator Found

28/07/2013

Using data from a NASA satellite, scientists have discovered a massive particle accelerator in the heart of one of the harshest regions of near-Earth space...

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....

And Phil Kept Falling Pt. 2

22/07/2013

A new audience of potheads, tripsters and scene makers had no doubt that, when it came to psychedelic science fiction, Phil was the man...

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...

And Phil Kept Falling

17/07/2013

Berkeley in the early fifties was a hotbed of radical thought and a young Phil stumbled through it with an impish sense of humour alienating Marxists, Trotskyites and ‘free thinkers’ alike with...