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Eating In Front Of A Mirror Makes Food Taste Better
Eating in front of a mirror—or even with a picture of yourself eating—makes food more appealing, a new study suggests.
Transforming Rusty Steel Into Batteries
Scientists have successfully converted rusty stainless steel mesh into stable, low-cost electrodes for potassium-ion batteries.
A Potential Biomarker For Aggressive Brain Cancer
Researchers have found that the levels of a protein called BCL6 can be used to identify patients with glioblastoma multiforme, a particularly aggressive type of brain cancer.
Ten Lab Characters You’ll Either Love Or Hate, But Never Escape
Wherever you go, human nature—and the type of people you meet in the lab—tends to stay the same.
Male Farmers In Malaysia More Prone To ‘Monkey Malaria’
A new study suggests that adult male farmers in Malaysia are four times more likely to contract ‘monkey malaria’ than other members of their community.
Duck-Billed Dinosaur Is Japan’s Largest Complete Fossil
The 8-meter-long Mukawa dragon is the largest complete dinosaur fossil to be unearthed in Japan to date.
Teaching Old Tools New Tricks
An ‘old’ cancer detection technology is now being explored as a dengue detection tool in humans.
How Graphene Enables Us To See Viruses
Researchers in Japan have used atomically thin graphene film to enhance the quality of electron microscopy images.
Going Anti-Dengue With Antibodies
Therapeutic antibodies offer promising new options for treating infectious diseases, including dengue, writes immunologist Dr Katja Fink.
