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Can our expectations for the future change how we remember the past? According to a new study published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology , they can--we remember unpleasant experiences more negatively if we expect to endure them again. Researchers at New York University and Carnegie Mellon University conducted seven experiments to determine how people’s expectations shape their memories

Most of us take it for granted that math works--that scientists can devise formulas to describe subatomic events or that engineers can calculate paths for space

If you shut yourself in a room and devise some abstract mathematics for the sake of sheer intellectual fascination, you might not expect your scribblings to have any relevance to the real world. [More]

“We are starstuff”, it’s a well-used phrase in popular astronomy (yes, we are. [More]

TOKYO, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Pockets of lethal levels ofradiation have been detected at Japan's crippled Fukushima [More]

I hope you had a great time over the weekend and are ready for the work week. [More]

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Those of you who have been reading my blog for a very long time, probably remember the high frequency of posting I used to have here.

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What if your car knew what you were going to do before you did it? What if, say, the car slowed down by itself in an emergency in response to your reaction, even before you had a chance to hit the brakes

There has been quite a lot of discussion (again, groan, I know) about pseudonymity and anonymity online, due to Google Plus decision to delete accounts that seem (to them, within their cultural frames) to be pseudonymous. [More]

By Tan Ee Lyn HONG KONG (Reuters) - Three Himalaya glaciers have been shrinking over the last 40 years due to global warming and two of them, located in humid regions and on lower altitudes in central and east Nepal, may disappear in time to come, researchers in Japan said on Tuesday. [More]

By David Cyranoski of Nature magazine The largest-ever study of the genetics of depression is set to go ahead in China, after a major survey found that the condition largely has the same triggers and symptoms there as in the West -- albeit with a few startling exceptions. Previous studies on twins in Sweden have shown that genetics explains about 40% of a woman's risk of depression, and about 30% of a man's. [More]

Efforts to grow neurons from schizophrenia patients, surprising facts about the latest E.