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21/12/2015 - 14:35

Participants with high television viewing (more than three hours per day for more than two-thirds of the visits) during 25 years were more... →

16/12/2015 - 14:19

Psychiatrist Christiaan Vinkers and his colleagues searched papers on PubMed for 25 'positive' words and 25 'negative' words (which the... →

12/12/2015 - 13:51

It turned out that simply describing the event to themselves massively improved their chances of remembering it accurately a week or so... →

06/12/2015 - 16:30

Sarcasm involves constructing or exposing contradictions between intended meanings. The most common form of verbal irony, sarcasm is often... →

02/12/2015 - 15:54

When does old age begin? The poet Dante believed old age started at 45. A survey of the British public concluded that it starts at 59 – the... →

25/11/2015 - 18:04

Rand’s previous studies had examined a more fundamental question: are we naturally predisposed to being selfish, or selfless? One idea was... →

21/11/2015 - 14:10

Romanes waited until his dog was distracted by another hound, then darted away in a mad zigzag. When the dog returned, it realised Romanes... →

15/11/2015 - 18:55

Israel, in sixth place is the only Middle Eastern country placed in the top 10, while North and South American countries were not present... →

11/11/2015 - 14:15

"The results of the Israeli Democracy Index 2015 highlight the continued deterioration of the public stake in government institutions,... →

05/11/2015 - 15:29

Bumpology The story starts with a collection of dozens of tiny ceramic heads – all different shapes and sizes – kept at the Science Museum... →

01/11/2015 - 14:13

That’s because dark matter is not made out of the same material as ordinary matter—atoms or familiar elementary particles, whose... →

27/10/2015 - 11:42

One early idea was that men work themselves into an early grave. Whether working in a mine or ploughing the land, they put extra stress on... →

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