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Culture affects how people deceive others, study shows
People's language changes when they lie depending on their cultural background.
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Psychologists have discovered that people's language changes when they lie...
3-D-printed minifactories
Printing with bacterial ink. Bacteria-containing ink can even be printed on a complex three-dimensional surface such as this doll's head.
Credit: Laboratory for complex materials...
High-dimensional quantum encryption performed in real-world city conditions for first time
For the first time, researchers have demonstrated sending messages in a secure manner using high dimensional quantum cryptography in realistic city conditions.
Credit: SQO team,...
Copper catalyst yields high efficiency CO2-to-fuels conversion
Schematic of a new catalyst made of copper nanoparticles that converts carbon dioxide to multicarbon products (ethylene, ethanol, and propanol). At top left are...
New nanomaterial can extract hydrogen fuel from seawater
Artist's conceptualization of the hybrid nanomaterial photocatalyst that's able to generate solar energy and extract hydrogen gas from seawater.
Credit: University of Central Florida
It's possible...
Breakthrough process for directly converting methane to methanol
Aberration-corrected HAADF/STEM images of as-synthesized Rh-ZSM-5. Single rhodium cations are circled in white with proposed ball-stick model of the structure.
Credit: Lawrence F. Allard, co-author...
Holding infants — or not — can leave traces on their...
Woman with newborn baby.
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The amount of close and comforting contact between infants and their caregivers can affect children at the...
Eye contact with your baby helps synchronize your brainwaves
This is Lucy Kivlin and her baby Ginny.
Credit: University of Cambridge
When a parent and infant interact, various aspects of their behaviour can synchronise, including...
Under stress, newborn babies show greater brain response to pain
Neonatal doctors and nurses know that preterm babies sometimes "tune out" and become unresponsive when they are overwhelmed.
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When newborn babies...
Lava or not, exoplanet 55 Cancri e likely to have atmosphere
The super-Earth exoplanet 55 Cancri e, depicted with its star in this artist's concept, likely has an atmosphere thicker than Earth's but with ingredients...
Space dust may transport life between worlds, research suggests
Some of the coldest and darkest dust in space shines brightly in this infrared image from the Herschel Observatory.
Credit: ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech
Life on our planet might...
