Feel-good glass for windows

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Most people prefer to live in homes that are airy and flooded with light. Nobody likes to spend much time in a dark and dingy room. That's no surprise, since daylight gives us energy and has a major impact on our sense of wellbeing. It is a real mood lifter.

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New strategy discovered to prevent hearing loss

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If you're concerned about losing your hearing because of noise exposure (earbud deafness syndrome), a new discovery published online in the FASEB Journal offers some hope.

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Murdering a man for blasphemy

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There is a horrific story about a mob of thousands of people in Pakistan being incited by religious leaders to pull a mentally ill man from a police station, beat him to death, and set his

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Sponge offers clues to nervous system evolution

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UC Santa Barbara scientists turned to the simple sponge to find clues about the evolution of the complex nervous system and found that, but for a mechanism that coordinates the expression of genes that lead to the formation of neural synapses, sponges and the rest of the animal world may not be s

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Patients trust doctors but consult the Internet

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Patients look up their illnesses online to become better informed and prepared to play an active role in their care ? not because they mistrust their doctors, a new University of California, Davis, study suggests.

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The Higgs Boson, Part I

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If you?re still scratching your head, trying to figure out all the Higgs Boson news, the great folks from MinutePhysics have put together a new video to explain it all. However, since this is all a little complicated, it?s going to take more than one minute. Parts 2 and 3 are on their way!

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The Sun speaks up

It’s been a while since we’ve had a big flare from the Sun. Active region 1515 was looking like it might do the trick — over the past week this group of sunspots has been hissing and spitting, but the flares have been relative small.[...]

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Bipedal Robot Takes Most Human-Like Steps Yet

From DVICE: We've seen many examples of freaky bipedal (and otherwise) walking bots, but one University of Arizona lab's pair of freaky disembodied legs mimics human muscle and tendon systems to create the most life-like gait yet. Read the whole article

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