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Up Your Online Dating Game With Evidence-Based Strategies
Choosing a username starting with an early alphabet letter is just one scientifically vetted way to increase the odds of turning an online encounter into a first date. Christopher Intagliata reports. - PsySociety Mind & Brain
How To Make The Most Of Your Valentine’s Day!
Whether you’re single or partnered up this Valentine’s Day, psychology has all sorts of tips for you on how to find your next great love or improve your existing relationship with the one you’ve got. - Scientific American Volume 312, Issue 2 More Science
The Hives of Others: Bees Wage War across Species
Australian stingless bees stage strikingly rare interspecies battles - Cocktail Party Physics More Science
Physics Week in Review (Valentine’s Edition): February 14, 2015
Today is Valentine’s Day. In love? Or just the opposite? Express how you feel with physics-inspired Valentines—and anti-Valentines for those who perhaps aren’t huge fans of the holiday. - 60-Second Tech Technology
Keurig Coffee Drinkers Hack Back
Users of the K-cup coffee company’s products have counterattacked against its efforts to restrict the brands that their new machines can brew. Larry Greenemeier reports.
- TechMediaNetwork Space
NASA Probe Captures Images of Pluto and Its Moon Charon [Video]
The New Horizons spacecraft is set to make the first flyby of Pluto this July - Scientific American Volume 312, Issue 2 Mind & Brain
New Promise of Relief for Major Depression
Deep-brain stimulation has shown potential to help the up to 20 percent of patients with major depression who don’t get relief from medication, psychotherapy or other means - TechMediaNetwork More Science
Dogs Can Tell Happy or Angry Human Faces
The dogs in a study chose whether a face was happy or angry by tapping an image with their noses - Scientific American Volume 312, Issue 2 Energy & Sustainability
Book Review: Melting Away
- TechMediaNetwork Evolution
2 Jurassic Mini-Mammals Discovered in China
The fossils, more than 160 million years old, preserve a tree-climber and a tunnel-digger that lived alongside the dinosaurs - News Health
Value of Vaccines Eludes Pandering Politicians
We've seen the needle and the damage avoided - 60-Second Science More Science
Triskaidekaphobia Plays Role in Paraskevidekatriaphobia
Some random historical facts about the number 13 may be behind some people's irrational aversion to Friday the 13th. Karen Hopkin reports.
- In-Depth Reports Mind & Brain
Love in the Time of Science
From evolutionary psychology to microbiology, this Valentine's Day discover what scientists are learning about the rules of attraction - Life, Unbounded Technology
Is AI Dangerous? That Depends…
Somewhere in the long list of topics that are relevant to astrobiology is the question of ‘intelligence’. Is human-like, technological intelligence likely to be common across the universe? - Anecdotes from the Archive Technology
Air Defenses Against Zeppelins, 1915
Reported in Scientific American, This Week in World War I: February 13, 1915 German Zeppelins (airships with rigid frames) bombed Liège, Belgium, on August 6, 1914, only a few days after the Great War broke out. - News Technology
Dating Services Tinker with the Algorithms of Love
How online dating sites and apps hone their software based on user behavior—and misbehavior—to find your true romance - News More Science
How 2 Pro-Nazi Nobelists Attacked Einstein’s "Jewish Science" [Excerpt]
In a chapter excerpted from his new book, science writer Philip Ball describes “Aryan physics” and other ludicrous ideas that accompanied the rise of Adolf Hitler - Features More Science
A Stormy Arctic Is the New Normal [Excerpt]
The Arctic is changing fast - Climatewire Energy & Sustainability
Battery Storage Needed to Expand Renewable Energy
The U.S. Department of Energy is exploring energy storage strategies to accelerate the use of wind and solar power - Special Editions Volume 23, Issue 5s More Science
Where are All the Female Geniuses?
Women tend to choose work-life balance rather than the pursuit of eminence—although the choice is not entirely freely made
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