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Please help British Council with an important survey

All participants will be entered into a prize draw and for the winner British Council will donate £250 to a charity of his/ her choice.
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Nouns and verbs are learnt in different parts of the brain

Learning nouns and verbs activate different regions of the brain. The scientists observed this using brain images taken using functional magnetic resonance, according to an article published in the journal Neuroimage.
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New material for better prosthesis

Prosthesis made up of carbon nanotubes and nanoparticles of zirconia, might last more than 150 years. At least, this is what researcher Nere Garmendia say in her PhD thesis. She wished to show that the ageing and cracking of present prosthesis could be avoided.
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Positive emotions protect against heart disease

People who are usually happy, enthusiastic and content are less likely to develop heart disease than those who tend not to be happy. This is the conclusion of a new major study published in the European Heart Journal.
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Outdoor air quality and progression of atherosclerosis in humans

American and European researchers have found that exposure to air pollution accelerates the thickening of artery walls that leads to cardiovascular disease. The study links outdoor air quality and progression of atherosclerosis in humans and is published in the journal PloS ONE.
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Brain waves and which faces we choose

British and American researchers say in a study that they have found specific brain activity pattern associated with our preference decision when two faces are closely matched.
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IQ, as a risk factor

While low results on written or oral tests of IQ have been associated with a raised risk of cardiovascular disease, no study has so far compared the relative strength of this association with other established risk factors such as obesity, smoking and high blood pressure. Now, a large study funded by Britain's Medical Research Council, which set out to gauge the relative importance of IQ alongside other risk factors, has found that lower intelligence scores were associated with higher rates of cardiovascular disease and total mortality at a greater level of magnitude than found with any other risk factor except smoking.
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Beer for Healthy Bones?

American scientists from confirm that beer is a very rich source of silicon that is a key ingredient for increasing bone mineral density. Details of this study are available in the February issue of the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture.
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Genes, exercise and personalized medicine

Researchers from 14 institutions in Canada, UK, Denmark, Sweden, and USA have just published a comprehensive look at a group of genes and found a way to predict who will benefit the most from exercise. Their latest work builds on the current belief among researchers that one of the best predictors of health and longevity is our body’s ability to take in and use oxygen during maximum exercise. The more blood our heart can pump and the more oxygen our muscles can use, the less our risk of early disease and death is. They say that’s why aerobic exercise is so important.
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Mind power: simple thoughts might operate computers

The computer mouse and keyboard will be as useful for operating a computer as much as currently diskettes are useful for storing data. That's because we will be able to control computers with simple thoughts. At least that is what suggests a research at Rowan University in the USA.
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Smart capsules that release their contents at desired temperature

French researchers at CNRS Paul Pascal Research Center in Bordeaux have designed smart capsules that are able to release their contents on demand, simply by raising the temperature. This novel system opens up the way to many applications in a large number of fields such as food, perfumes and agriculture, for instance to deliver pesticides above a specific temperature.
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Chocolate cure for emotional stress

Swiss and German scientists found that eating 40 grams of dark chocolate a day for two weeks reduced levels of stress hormones in the bodies of people feeling highly stressed. Results are published in Journal of Proteome Research.
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Plasma jets could replace dentist's drill

Painless plasma jets could replace the dentist's drill in maximum five years, as German researchers say in an article published in the February issue of the Journal of Medical Microbiology.
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80% of people who care for a relative suffer from anxiety and stress

The research conducted at the Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology from the University of Granada reveals that most of the people in charge of caring for a relative suffer from anxiety and stress. These results were published in the journal Geriatrik and Multidisciplinary Journal of Gerontology.
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Speeding up plant breeding of the world's most important medicinal crop

The most effective drugs for treating malaria are based on extracts from the medicinal herb called Artemisia annua. The new genetic map obtained by plant scientists at the University of York, UK, might be used to accelerate plant breeding of Artemisia and rapidly develop the species into a high-yielding crop. Research have been published in the journal Science.
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Telling your boss what you think of them is good for your health

Psychologists urge companies to allow employees to rate their managers' ability to manage. The research is presented by Emma Donaldson-Feilder, from Affinity Health at Work, at the British Psychological Society's Division of Occupational Psychology Annual Conference.
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New target discovered for treatment of cancer

Researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have discovered a new way of blocking the formation of blood vessels and halting the growth of tumours in mice. A substance that exploits this mechanism could be developed into a new treatment for cancer.
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Learning, memories and a protein

British scientists at Leicester University revealed the mechanism by which memories are formed. They found one of the key proteins involved in the process of memory and learning. The research has potential to impact drug design to treat Alzheimer’s disease.
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A new weapon against cancer

Cancer remains a deadly threat despite the best efforts of science. A collaboration between two groups of scientists has led to a new anti-cancer drug being fine-tuned to beat the war against cancer.
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World Mosquito Day and the legacy of Sir Ronald Ross

The transmission of malaria by mosquitoes, one of the most important scientific discoveries in the battle against the disease, was made 112 years ago by Sir Ronald Ross. The history of science note that this happened on August 20, 1897. For this discovery, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1902.
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