Your left hand knows what your right hand is doing
The saying goes that "your left hand doesn't know what your right hand is doing," but actually, your left hand is paying more attention...
American death rate from drugs, alcohol, and mental disorders nearly triples since 1980
An animated GIF visualizing mortality from mental and substance use disorders from 1980 to 2014 by county. Credit: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
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Supercomputer simulation reveals 2D glass can go infinitely soft
Left and right figures are schematic diagrams of glassy solid in two and three dimensions. Modality of the dynamics of glassy solid in different...
Workplace fun is fundamental for learning on the job
A manager's support for fun actually mattered more than his or her support for learning, according to the researchers.Image: Flickr/franchichi eusebio
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Optical tractor beam traps bacteria
Picture of the distribution of the genetic information in an Escherichia coli bacterial cell: Physicists at Bielefeld University are the first to photograph this...
How our brains are biologically tuned to be influenced by confident people
Scientists have uncovered that the added influence of confident people may be down to our biology.
By studying brain activity, academics discerned that human brains...
Searching for trojan asteroids, Earth’s unseen companions
In February 2017, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will undertake a search for Earth-Trojan asteroids while on its outbound journey to the asteroid Bennu. Earth-Trojans are...
Antarctic Ice Sheet study reveals 8,000-year record of climate change
Iceberg in the Weddell Sea. Credit: Mike Weber
An international team of researchers has found that the Antarctic Ice Sheet plays a major role in...
Perovskite solar cells hit new world efficiency record
Dr. Anita Ho-Baillie, a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics at UNSW, with the new perovskite cell. Credit: Rob Largent/UNSW
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How it takes just 6 seconds to hack a credit card
Credit: Newcastle University
New research reveals the ease with which criminals can hack an account without ANY of the card details
Dubbed the Distributed Guessing Attack,...
Printable electronics
MIT researchers have fabricated a stamp made from forests of carbon nanotubes that is able to print electronic inks onto rigid and flexible surfaces.Photo:...
