Stunningly swinish! That’s me
Published: 09 November, 2009, 11:51
It’s not yet clear whether pigs can be as vain as we humans can, but they certainly know how to use a mirror, a new study has revealed.
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Meditation can lower the risk of heart attack in subjects with existing disease, comparable to that of powerful new drugs. In a 5-year study, meditating cardiac patients were almost 50% less likely to be affected.
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Numerous encounters of light balls during thunderstorms may actually be magnetic fields playing with human senses.
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Israeli inventors say they have developed a program that can screen depression sufferers by surfing blogs.
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Psychopaths are believed to have pathological problems with emotions. Feeling no fear or compassion, they kill in cold blood, but a new study suggests their asocial behavior may be due to attention problems.
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Public disapproval of war is influenced more by local reports of local casualties, with modern news formats shortening the impact timeframe of casualty reports, according to a new study.
The melodies of the cries newborn babies produce differ depending on their native language, a new study says. Apparently humans start to practice language skills right in the first days of their lives.
Eleven volunteers from Russia, Europe and China have been selected to prepare for a simulation flight to Mars. Six of them will be chosen and isolated for 520 days to test how the human mind can cope with such stress.
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A genetic adaptation to increasing the consumption of raw meat by ancient humans may have given us protection from age diseases. Puzzlingly, a variant of the same gene can be rather more harmful than beneficial.
Sounds we use to express fear and sadness will be recognized as such by any culture, while giving a cheer or a sigh of relief requires some social training, a study suggests.
Published: 09 November, 2009, 11:51
It’s not yet clear whether pigs can be as vain as we humans can, but they certainly know how to use a mirror, a new study has revealed.