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Want to Learn a New Skill? Take Some Short Breaks
In a study of healthy volunteers, National Institutes of Health researchers found that our brains may solidify the memories of new skills we just practiced a few seconds earlier by taking a short rest.
Predicting Heat Waves? Look Half a World Away
When heavy rain falls over the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia and the eastern Pacific Ocean, it is a good indicator that temperatures in central California will reach 100 F in four to 16 days, according to a collaborative research team from the University of California, Davis, and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Climate Center in Busan, South Korea.
Ice Ages Triggered When Tropical Islands and Continents Collide
University of California scientists think they know why Earth’s generally warm and balmy climate over the past billion years has occasionally been interrupted by cold snaps that enshroud the poles with ice and occasionally turn the planet into a snowball.
"Molecular Scissors" for Plastic Waste
Plastics are excellent materials: extremely versatile and almost eternally durable.
Fishy Diagnostics for Food Allergy Testing
James Cook University scientists have found material commonly used for fish allergy testing is unreliable - potentially putting lives at risk.