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New Evidence of Supermassive Black Hole Shredding a Star
Astronomers have gathered the most direct evidence yet of a supermassive black hole shredding a star that wandered too close.
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Thursday, March 15, 2012
Your Mind Will Wander as You Read This Article
A new study investigating the mental processes underlying a wandering mind reports a role for working memory, a sort of a mental workspace that allows you to juggle multiple thoughts simultaneously.
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
80% of U.S. Farmland Will Have to Be Devoted to Growing Corn to Meet Current Biofuel Target
Almost 80 percent of current farmland in the U.S. would have to be devoted to raising corn for ethanol production in order to meet current biofuel production targets with existing technology, a new study has found. An alternative, according to a study in ACS’ journal Environmental Science & Technology, would be to convert 60 percent of existing rangeland to biofuels.
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Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Lovelorn Liars Leave Linguistic Leads
Online daters intent on fudging their personal information have a big advantage: most people are terrible at identifying a liar. But new research is turning the tables on deceivers using their own words.
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Mom’s Love Good for Child’s Brain
School-age children whose mothers nurtured them early in life have brains with a larger hippocampus, a key structure important to learning, memory and response to stress. The new research, by child psychiatrists and neuroscientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, is the first to show that changes in this critical region of children’s brain anatomy are linked to a mother’s nurturing.
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Posted by Craig Jones on 01/31 at 11:24 AM
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Friday, January 20, 2012
Snakes Improve Search-and-Rescue Robots
Georgia Tech researchers have studied the movements of snakes to create more efficient search-and-rescue robots.
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Scientists Discover the First Physical Evidence of Tobacco in a Mayan Container
Their discovery represents new evidence on the ancient use of tobacco in the Mayan culture and a new method to understand the ancient roots of tobacco use in the Americas.
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Friday, December 16, 2011
GDP Up, Happiness Down
Happiness has dropped over the last two years, University of Vermont research shows.
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Wednesday, November 02, 2011
Sounds of the Renaissance Reproduced through Acoustical Archeology
A research team used a combination of historical evidence and scientific modeling to recreate the acoustic environment of Renaissance period Venice churches.
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Wednesday, November 02, 2011
Increased Use of Bikes for Commuting Offers Economic, Health Benefits
Cutting out short auto trips and replacing them with mass transit and active transport would yield major health benefits, according to a study just published in the scientific journal Environmental Health Perspectives. The biggest health benefit was due to replacing half of the short trips with bicycle trips during the warmest six months of the year, saving about $3.8 billion per year from avoided mortality and reduced health care costs for conditions like obesity and heart disease.
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Posted by Craig Jones on 11/02 at 09:36 AM
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