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Fear smells like sugar to fish

Scientists have figured out what ‘scary stuff’ is really made of.

Satellite cameras could be used for facial recognition

Photos from surveillance cameras, YouTube and Facebook could be used for forensic investigatons.

Amasia, the new supercontinent

All of Earth’s current continents will form Amasia, a single landmass, in 50 to 200 million years time.

Sweet, sweet medicine

Sweet news for those looking for an alternative to customary medicinal antibiotics. Honey, an ancient remedy for the treatment of infected wounds, has recently been rediscovered by the medical community.

A few steps closer to Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak

  Now you see it… science can make things invisible.

From South America with love

6,700 years ago popcorn irrupted as a popular snack.

From words to sentences

Our brain uses two distinct neural pathways to divide the tasks of comprehending and producing language.

A Darwinian approach towards emotions?

Emotions are not as biologically “basic” as we might think.

Discovery of “God particle”

Scientists believe that they may have caught their first glimpse of the Higgs Boson, or “God particle”, a subatomic unit that is a vital factor in science’s understanding of the universe.

Hormone injections improve the memory

Treatment with IGF-II could significantly improve memory.

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