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Who are mosquitoes more likely to bite ?
7-16-2013 |
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Some people seem to find themselves more prone to being bitten by mosquitoes than others.
78,000 people apply for trip to Mars
5-9-2013 | 48
Despite there being no way get home again, thousands have rushed to sign themselves up to Mars One.
DARPA building robots with 'real' brains
4-13-2013 | 51
A Pentagon-funded research team has created a device that allows robots to think for themselves.
Did we domesticate dogs or vice versa?
3-7-2013 | 34
Did early humans domesticate dogs or did the dogs adapt themselves to benefit from being around us ?
Dung beetles navigate via the Milky Way
1-25-2013 | 19
In a world first, dung beetles are thought to use our own Milky Way galaxy to orient themselves.
Volvo developing 'crash-proof' cars
12-6-2012 | 13
Car manufacturer Volvo is aiming to build cars that can drive by themselves and avoid collisions.
Fish use reflection to avoid predators
10-24-2012 | 3
Silvery fish such as sardines can use their silvery skin to camouflage themselves from predators.
Could spacecraft build themselves ?
9-17-2012 | 7
NASA is exploring the possibility of using 3D printing technology to help build spacecraft.
Have you suffered from 'hindsight bias' ?
9-9-2012 | 15
Those who 'knew the answer all along' may not be quite as clever as they are making themselves out to be.
Termites explode to defend colonies
7-28-2012 | 16
Termites in the rainforests of French Guiana literally blow themselves up to help defend their peers.
Are two heads really better than one ?
4-21-2012 | 9
New research suggests that people may be better off answering difficult questions by themselves.
Talking to yourself helps you focus
4-19-2012 | 29
Don't shy away from people who talk to themselves, they're just trying to focus on something important.
Poltergeist activity filmed in Australia
VIDEO 3-24-2012 | 35
Security footage shows a box of sweets being inexplicably flung from one of the shelves on to the floor.
Mystery of the standing brooms
VIDEO 3-14-2012 | 41
The internet has been inundated recently with tales of brooms that stand upright by themselves.
Dung beetles dance to navigate
1-21-2012 | 3
Dung beetles dance atop a ball of poo to orientate themselves after a fight or hitting an obstacle.
The 'Watching Paint Dry Championships'
1-11-2012 | 19
People from around the world have been competing by filming themselves watching paint dry.
New microchip rivals the human brain
8-20-2011 | 17
IBM have developed microchips capable of rewiring themselves and mimicking the human brain.
Early humans very similar to ourselves
2-16-2011 | 13
Archaeologist John Shea has made the case that the earliest humans were very similar to modern humans.
Buddhist monks mummified themselves
9-18-2010 | 72
In the early 1800s Buddhist monks practiced a long and turturous process of self mummification.
Lab monkeys make their escape
7-8-2010 | 16
Lab monkeys in Japan succeeded in catapulting themselves from trees in order to escape over an electric fence.
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