Science

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Veterinarian Explains How Old is Your Pet in Dog Years or Cat Years

Wondering if Max would be graduating from high school or preparing for retirement based on how many “dog years” he’s lived, comparing life ...

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When Laser Eye Surgery Fails, the Cightmare Can Be Enormous

Laser surgery is performed successfully in 95 per cent of cases but the operation can turn into a nightmare requiring complex treatments because it ...

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Sniffing Your Partner’s Worn Clothing May Help Improve Your Health

Many study participants reported they had smelled an absent partner’s clothing because it made them feel relaxed or secure. Photo: Charisse ...

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Antarctica Records Warmest Day on Record – Temperature Soars to 18.3C

Warming along the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula has produced an 87 percent retreat in the region's glaciers and ice sheets. Photo: Michelle ...

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You Wake up With a New Year’s Anxiety Hangover – This Is What’s Happening in Your Brain

Alcohol interferes with the consolidation and retrieval of memories, leading to confusion and uncertainty the next day. Photo: Akshar Dave / ...

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What Do We Find Attractive in Each Other, and Why?

Much of our sense of what is attractive comes into focus when viewed through the lens of successful reproduction. Photo: Dimitri Kuliuk / Pexels ...

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Crisco’s Revolutionary Advertising Techniques Made Americans Believers in Industrial Food

Helen Zoe Veit, Michigan State University Perhaps you’ll unearth a can of Crisco for the holiday baking season. If so, you’ll be one ...

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This Ancient Memory Technique Is Older Than Our Western Civilisation, and Far More Effective

In Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective novel A Study in Scarlet (1887) we learn that Sherlock Holmes used the most effective memory system ...