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People are more suggestible under laughing gas

The pain-relieving effects of nitrous oxide - laughing gas - may be enhanced by suggestion or hypnosis, according to a new study by UCL (University College London). The study's findings - that people are more suggestible ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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High-temperature superconductivity starts at nanoscale

(Phys.org) -- High-temperature superconductivity doesn't happen all it once. It starts in isolated nanoscale patches that gradually expand until they take over.

Physics / Superconductivity

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OUP research reveals children's imaginative language use

Innovative use of language, a firm grasp of technology, and a thirst for unusual words are just some of the findings revealed about how children use language according to new Oxford University Press (OUP) ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 29, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Researchers demonstrate possible primitive mechanism of chemical info self-replication

(Phys.org) -- When scientists think about the replication of information in chemistry, they usually have in mind something akin to what happens in living organisms when DNA gets copied: a double-stranded molecule ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created May 25, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Psychologists examine how race affects juvenile sentencing

When it comes to holding children accountable for crimes they commit, race matters.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Bronze Age Facebook

(Phys.org) -- Large clusters of rock art spanning thousands of years but located at the same site may hold key to detecting massive cultural changes in prehistoric hunter-gatherers of the north.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created May 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Every black hole contains a new universe: A physicist presents a solution to present-day cosmic mysteries

Our universe may exist inside a black hole. This may sound strange, but it could actually be the best explanation of how the universe began, and what we observe today. It's a theory that has been explored ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (88) | comments 256 | with audio podcast

Group finds circadian clock common to almost all life forms

(Phys.org) -- A group of biology researchers, led by Akhilesh Reddy from Cambridge University have found an enzyme that they believe serves as a circadian clock that operates in virtually all forms of life. ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 8 | with audio podcast report

Big-mouthed babies drove the evolution of giant island snakes

Some populations of tiger snakes stranded for thousands of years on tiny islands surrounding Australia have evolved to be giants, growing to nearly twice the size of their mainland cousins. Now, new research ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Ancient sea reptile with gammy jaw suggests dinosaurs got arthritis too

Imagine having arthritis in your jaw bones... if they're over two meters long! A new study by scientists at the University of Bristol has found signs of a degenerative condition similar to human arthritis ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created May 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New Interstellar Boundary Explorer data show heliosphere's long-theorized bow shock does not exist

For the last few decades, space scientists have generally accepted that the bubble of gas and magnetic fields generated by the sun – known as the heliosphere – moves through space, creating three ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 10, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (17) | comments 3 | with audio podcast


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