Science Magazine

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• Short Subjects

  

  Brief news on drugs and addiction. The editorial staff at Addiction Inbox (see photo), occasionally finds itself overwhelmed with news and opinion worth... Read more

  The 12 November 2012 by   Dirkh
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• Loom

  tells the story of a successful catch. A moth being caught in a spiders web. Struggling for an escape, the moths panic movements only result in less chance of... Read more

  The 12 November 2012 by   Gerard
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• The Banana Slug - Nature's Giant Recycler

  

  image credit Perhaps it is the mucus, perhaps the snake-like appearance or the habit of many species of slug to regard your garden and the carefully cultivated... Read more

  The 11 November 2012 by   Gerard
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• Crocodile Faces Are More Sensitive Than Human Fingertips

  

  image credit Of all the adjectives you could use to describe a crocodile's face, 'sensitive' might not be an obvious one. But their huge jaws, pointed teeth... Read more

  The 09 November 2012 by   Gerard
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• The Universe Is Almost Done Making Stars

  

  In its youth, the universe was a roiling soup of star ingredients, with new stars forming rapidly. But now it’s much quieter, and things are not expected to... Read more

  The 08 November 2012 by   Ningauble
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• How Asteroids Can Save Mankind

  

  Asteroid mining may seem like science fiction, but with resources running short on Earth, mining the sky could be humanity's only hope. Near-Earth asteroids... Read more

  The 08 November 2012 by   Gerard
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• Behold Mighty Sauron, the Dinosaur

  

  We all know the mighty Sauron, that big eye in the Lord of the Rings series that everyone in Middle Earth were scared to even talk about. Now we have another... Read more

  The 07 November 2012 by   Nrjperera
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• Physiological Benefits of Leadership - Importance of a Sense of Control

  An edited paste-up from Sapolsky's brief review pointing to work of Sherman et al. showing that leaders feeling a sense of control have lower stress levels. Read more

  The 06 November 2012 by   Deric Bownds
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• Oxytocin Facilitates Protective Responses to Aversive Social Stimuli in Men..

  More in the thread from last Friday's post, in this case on how our brain biases responses to positive and negative social stimuli. Read more

  The 05 November 2012 by   Deric Bownds
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• When 3D Printing and Architecture Meet Human Bones

  

  What can be common between human bones, houses and 3D technology? Softkill is a London design studio that has combined all the three to create something unique... Read more

  The 05 November 2012 by   Ningauble
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