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Investigators with the Baycrest Rotman Research Institute say that depressive people benefit significantly from something as simple as a walk in the park. This habit can improve their memory performances, regardless of whether they take their walks in the countryside or an urban landscape.
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15 May 2012
10:48 GMT |
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Released earlier this month, National Geographic Today has been giving users some headaches, especially on older devices. The developers have issued an update today, fixing some of those bugs, while introducing a few tweaks as well. National Geographic Today 1.1 fixes memory issues that caused problems on older tabl... |
20 April 2012
18:41 GMT |
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Every country has its own flavor, and Germany is not excluded. For those who haven’t had the chance to get a taste of some of its beauties, three free themes for Windows 7 computers are available to change that.
Through these themes, you will explore Germany's natural beauty viewed through the eyes of p... |
20 February 2012
16:11 GMT |
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Talented architects often exploit their endless creativity to come up with ingenious solutions making the eight hours spent at the office on a daily basis seem even more enjoyable.
Of course, nature is considered a major source of inspiration in this case, judging by the fact that a greener, friendlier interior des... |
19 January 2012
06:48 GMT |
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Nowadays, the renewable sector benefits from amazing findings developed by experts using the most advanced technology. Some of the breakthroughs are actually unbelievably simple and inspired by nature.
One of the recent discoveries is that the romance of sunflowers with the sun could be analyzed and exploited to im... |
12 January 2012
03:50 GMT |
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Price of Wales thinks he has found an appropriate answer to the increasing food demand. In his opinion, in order to fill the gaps of the food chain, local farmers should play a more significant part in this equation. Growing food locally could imply a wide series of benefits, both for local communities and the heal... |
30 November 2011
06:24 GMT |
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In a bid to make more sense of how attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) emerges, experts have recently conducted a new study on twins. They found that both nature (genes) and nurture (the environment) are involved in this, and that their interplay is remarkably complex. For years, the scientific community ... |
26 April 2011
07:29 GMT |
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Understanding ecosystems and landscapes is a critical part of ecology, the science of the relationships forming in our environments. Experts with the Purdue University are currently studying ways of using sounds for making more sense of the ecological characteristics of landscapes.Researchers are also seeking to reco... |
2 March 2011
09:26 GMT |
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The fact that nature has a marked influence on our bodies and the way we feel is undeniable. This is obvious during warm and sunny days, when people feel like going out or socializing. When it's cold and rainy, or on the contrary too hot, we stay indoors, and generally feel a bit down. But, overall, spending tim... |
4 June 2010
08:59 GMT |
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According to a new set of scientific studies, it would appear that spending time in nature, be it in the park, in a backyard, or in a forest, actually promotes mental health. People who expose themselves to nature even more, such as those who travel a lot, who go hiking, or who spend a lot of time climbing mountains,... |
3 May 2010
04:03 GMT |
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Since the Ancient Greeks, and possibly even before, there has been an ongoing debate as to which effects are the most obvious in a human being. Some argue that nurture, the way each person is brought up, and the society they grow in, is the most determining aspect, whereas others believe that all the basic traits som... |
17 February 2010
06:58 GMT |
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Modeling nature and the interactions that take place within ecosystems is one of the most complex and demanding tasks that scientists working in this field of research have. Performing complex studies in nature to look at ecosystems is not always possible, because the methods would be either unethical (removing an an... |
11 August 2009
14:41 GMT |
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In their analysis of human remains dating back more than 40 millennia ago, researchers have determined that at least one of our ancestors ate fish regularly. The find helps set another piece in the puzzle of human development, and offers a better understanding of the diets that people had long before the first modern... |
8 July 2009
04:30 GMT |
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Increasing technological advances now allows humans to look at wildlife in its natural habitat directly on TV or on computer screens. Web cams and documentaries filmed with hidden cameras bring lions, hippopotamuses, whales and seals closer than ever before, but experts say that this trend may actually be one that wo... |
2 April 2009
02:25 GMT |
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Over the next year or so, countless volunteers and scientists across the US will take their research outdoors, as part of a massive campaign of assessing the real influence that global warming and climate change have on the way seasonal plants grow and multiply. These measurements will have an increased significance ... |
5 March 2009
06:00 GMT |
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The International Council for Science (ICSU) has recently thought of an international program that would facilitate a more adequate approach to preventing natural disasters, diminishing their negative effects and repairing the damage they cause. The project will join scientific fields of all types in a common humanit... |
22 October 2008
10:08 GMT |
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Man's desire to fly is known to have existed ever since the earliest recorded history. To fulfill his dream, man turned to nature and tried to copy the winged creatures, most of the times such attempts ending in disasters. We only have to look at today's flying machines to understand to that we have never r... |
7 July 2008
06:47 GMT |
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By simply casting a look towards our surroundings we can say that the amazing "inventions" of nature compete with the most advanced high technologies. The convergence between the living and the artificial world gave birth to an increasingly fecund science called bionics. This term was used for the first time by major... |
22 April 2008
09:44 GMT |
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In nature, any species is sought after by other predator or prey species, which detect it through their senses (sight, hearing, smell). Victims can defend through venoms, unpleasant smells, run, or by deceiving the sensory input of their predators. One method is camouflage and mimicry. It is a balance between prey an... |
22 March 2008
08:44 GMT |
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Nothing surprises me anymore. Hackers will just send out viruses wherever they can, reagardless of who they may attack. As the latest cases show, these guys are stooping very low. Such is the case of The Nature Conservancy - after a recent attack on sensitive info belonging to about 14.000 people had leaked. Naturall... |
3 October 2007
08:46 GMT |
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Polymers are repeating structural units, or monomers, connected by covalent chemical bonds, present in many natural and artificial materials, from plastics to DNA. Scientists were able to use these polymers to spontaneously create objects that mimic nature's complex shapes.This is the first time anyone succeeds... |
23 July 2007
08:01 GMT |
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For the past century, mankind reached an unprecedented degree of development that would made our ancestors consider us wizards. Technological breakthroughs are in the news everyday, new materials are created that almost defy logic, if not the laws of physics.However, nature keeps surprising us when we least expect i... |
3 July 2007
04:51 GMT |
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Spring in the temperate areas is the time when a cycle interrupted by the winter is restarted. Many people are worried by the fact that the extremely warm winters - due to the current man made global warming - could make trees bloom in January or February. But this is not going to happen, as plants and most animals r... |
17 April 2007
11:00 GMT |
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Screensavers as an idea are more and more apart from what they were created for. And I stand for this taking into account two different reasons although both of them concern safety. The first one is about the safety of your monitors and especially the CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) ones. When a CRT screen displays the same i... |
27 March 2007
12:57 GMT |
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