How Happy Do You Have to Be to Live Longer?
Discovered: happiness as a longevity percentage, resurfacing worries about X-ray scanners, the non-heart risks of ADHD medication, and an unpleasant climate change weather forecast.
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Discovered: happiness as a longevity percentage, resurfacing worries about X-ray scanners, the non-heart risks of ADHD medication, and an unpleasant climate change weather forecast.
Discovered: which commuters have more health worries, the smell of aroma molecules in chocolate, a catch with modified mosquitoes, zapping away addictive spending tendencies, and trying to debunk the "Freshman 15."
Discovered: limits to black licorice consumption, learning from giant pythons, how to make generic food homey, and another benefit of moderate drinking.
Discovered: gleaning romance from pronouns, the plight of deathly stressed dragonflies, the reminding effect of God, and a stepping-stone to dream prediction.
Discovered: the Michael Jordan's of living longer, one good thing about yogurt, the composition of super broccoli, how common binge-eating is, and a bit of unwitting dodgeball.
Discovered: where germs gather on the way to work, another win for coffee apologists, lessons from drunk mice, and the funny thing about neutrinos.
Discovered: a faintly bright spot in healthcare, the hearing loop arrives in America, a new hunting-gathering theory, the few that read nutrition labels, and the robots doing fine at job hunting.
Discovered: Facebook friends and gray matter, what makes waves glow, cobbling together an invulnerability suit, and materialism strikes back.
Counting 10 trillion digits of Pi, encouraging progress for a malaria vaccine, another TV watching warning, and MIT researchers who are peering through concrete walls.
Also in our roundup: making "tractor beams" a reality and the latest thing to worry about with cell phones
And, in the round-up: punctuation tips for getting a study noticed
And, in the round-up: 'Reading in bed is dangerous'
Also: the latest vitamin to fret about, still no way to test for how long you'll live
And in today's round-up: why you believe the things you hear on TV
And, in today's round-up: the chivalrous field cricket
Also in today's round-up: don't text and drive, and monkey arm avatars
And, in today's round-up: a newer, sadder excuse for not playing sports
The chemistry prize goes to Israeli scientist Daniel Schectman for discovering quasichrystals
Also in today's research round-up: a few worries about climate change
A University of Dallas team uses carbon nanotubes to mimic invisibility
Also in today's research round-up: the odd sounds captured in a meteor shower
Scientist Ralph Steinman was awarded by a Nobel committee for medicine
Also: an arctic ice shelf mistake and learning from mistakes
And in today's research round-up: the upside of embarressment
Plus: a stealthy way to get rid of mosquitoes
And, in today's research round-up: a brain shrinkage update
And, in today's research round-up: which seafood helps prevent strokes
Also in today's round-up: nostalgia for researcher types
Also in today's research round-up: Star Trek and Scrubs make appearances
Plus, in today's research round-up: soul-searching about a longevity gene
Plus: a math problem pop-quiz, courtesy of Harvard research
Plus, in today's research round up: a very small silver lining to unemployment
And: apples aren't supposed to be controversial
And: drug-testing an entire student body, round 2
Plus: SpongeBob researchers clarify their findings
Plus: another explanation of science's errors
Plus: people trust the Food and Drug Administration too much
Plus: what a Super-Earth looks like
Plus: 'Supercomputer predicts revolution' isn't as foreboding as it sounds
Also in today's research round-up: doctors get paid a lot
A millions of years old transitional fossil was just discovered
And: does it seem like there's a bit less cigarette smoke out there?
And: the link between war and weather
And: treadmill-running shrimp revisited
And: your heart likes being married
And: another benefit of moderate drinking
Plus: explaining the brain-eating amoeba scare
Plus: hints that the moon may be 200 million years younger
Plus: the great possibility that is coffee-infused sunscreeen
In a habitat diversity study, researchers used camera traps to capture wildlife response
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