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Emotional pain isn’t just in your head
16/04/2014 - 17:27
Fight or flight The brain’s response mechanisms to fear and tension have been widely researched due to the possible link between the... →
Stradivarius? You'd be better off with a modern violin
10/04/2014 - 16:24
They were asked to choose a violin to replace their own for a hypothetical concert tour. The violinists were blindfolded and invited to... →
Top 10 Israeli advances in autism
04/04/2014 - 15:43
2. Neurobiologists at the Weizmann Institute of Science, along with colleagues in the United States, identified a method of accurately... →
The happiest and unhappiest jobs
28/03/2014 - 15:51
Why does database administrator rank as the No. 1 happiest job, and what exactly does the work entail? Here’s the Bureau of Labor... →
Why Silicon Valley’s Success Is So Hard to Replicate
24/03/2014 - 13:25
Countries around the world are doing their best to copy the valley’s magic. Take China, where companies in a variety of industries have... →
Study finds bullies and victims suffer equally
20/03/2014 - 13:45
According to Shahar, these findings have relevance for both the basic scientific understanding of adolescent violence and the development... →
Africa's air pollution underestimated in climate change models
14/03/2014 - 19:31
In order to fill this gap, the researchers drew up anthropogenic emission maps for 2005 for every country in Africa. To do this, they used... →
Blurred lines? Sexual boundaries are not really all that blurred
09/03/2014 - 18:56
"As noted recently by President Obama, sexual assault continues to be a pervasive problem in our society," added Jeanette Norris, a senior... →
Israeli researchers use nanotechnology to target drug-resistant ovarian tumors
04/03/2014 - 15:12
“Tumors become resistant very quickly. Following the first, second, and third courses of chemotherapy, the tumors start pumping drugs out... →
History of fear in America
24/02/2014 - 16:45
So you go back to the early years, the terrible enemy was the Indians, who were going to destroy us. The colonists were, of course,... →
Online trolls are psychopaths and sadists, psychologists claim
18/02/2014 - 16:37
It went on to claim that trolls are “agents of chaos” that exploit “hot-button issues” to inflame and exploit users’ emotions, "If an... →
Thatcher's policies condemned for causing 'unjust premature death'
14/02/2014 - 13:32
The researchers use figures from bodies such as the Office for National Statistics and the World Health Organisation, which show high... →

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