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Alcohol boosts recall of earlier learning, study suggests
Having a glass of wine.
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Drinking alcohol improves memory for information learned before the drinking episode began, new research suggests.
In...
Study finds 90 percent of American men overfat
Rather than thinking of these disorders as separate, individual clinical problems, it might be best to consider the relationships between overfat, its various risks,...
Valuing your time more than money is linked to happiness
If people want to focus more on their time and less on money in their lives, they could take some actions to help shift...
Using money to buy time linked to increased happiness
People who spent money on time saving purchases reported greater life satisfaction.
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New research is challenging the age-old adage that money...
Ultrathin device harvests electricity from human motion
Vanderbilt undergraduate Thomas Metke demonstrates the ultrathin energy harvesting device which is taped across his elbow. As he flexes his arm the current the...
Explosions of Jupiter’s aurora linked to extraordinary planet-moon interaction
In this artist's rendering, flows of electrically charged ions and electrons accelerate along Jupiter's magnetic field lines (fountain-like blue curves), triggering auroras (blue rings)...
Jupiter’s complex transient auroras
Auroras at Jupiter.
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Combined observations from three spacecraft show that Jupiter's brightest auroral features recorded to date are powered by both the volcanic...
Chitchat, small talk could serve an evolutionary need to bond with others
Princeton University research suggests that idle conversation could be a social-bonding tool passed down from primates. The researchers found that ringtailed lemurs (above) use...
In both love and war, alligators signal size by bellowing
This is a male American alligator bellowing. Sub-audible vibrations produce the 'water dance' above the animal's back.
Credit: Stephan Reber
In alligators and other crocodilian species,...
A wolf’s howl in miniature: Researchers discover mice speak similarly to humans
Some mice and rats employ a whistle-like mechanism.
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Grasshopper mice (genus Onychomys), rodents known for their remarkably loud call, produce audible...
Neanderthal lineages excavated from modern human genomes
A diorama at the Neanderthal museum in Croatia.
Credit: Max Planck Institute
A substantial fraction of the Neanderthal genome persists in modern human populations. A new...
