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People tend to locate the self in the…

[caption id="attachment_4288" align="alignright" width="350"] Image credit: Rice Univeresity[/caption] HOUSTON – Whether people locate their sense of self in the brain or the heart can have a major influence on people's decision-making, according to a new…

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Developing “greener” household products

The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) in Singapore is working with a Japanese multinational company to develop safer, anti-odour and anti-bacteria household products that eliminate the use of harmful biocides. [caption id="attachment_4285" align="alignright"…

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Four decades of tracking European spacecraf

[caption id="attachment_4263" align="alignright" width="305"] Villafranca tracking station 1977[/caption] Forty years ago this week, a satellite ground station in Spain became the first to be assigned to what would become ESA. Since then, the network –…

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When citizens disobey

New study suggests people use “constructive noncompliance” to enact change. [caption id="attachment_4258" align="alignnone" width="639"] A man walks past a political banner in Guanghua Li that reads, "Patriotism Innovation Inclusiveness Virtue," in Chinese and English.Photo: iStock[/caption]…