After a break of a few months from looking at RSS feeds I’ve just come back to it. These are a few items I found particularly interesting from the science feeds I follow:
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- Spending time in nature makes people feel more alive
- Being outside in nature makes people feel more alive, finds a series of studies. And that sense of increased vitality exists above and beyond the energizing effects of physical activity and social interaction that are often associated with our forays into the natural world.
- How trekking-poles help hikers maintain muscle function while reducing soreness
- A new study shows for the first time how trekking-poles help hikers maintain muscle function while significantly reducing soreness in the days following a hike.
- Neanderthals walked into frozen Britain 40,000 years earlier than first thought
- Archaeologists have found evidence that Neanderthals were living in Britain at the start of the last ice age, 40,000 years earlier than previously thought.
- Skull reveals short ancestor
- Researchers have discovered a new branch of the human family tree — a species that was light, short, and fond of chewy plants.
- Will we succeed? The science of self-motivation
- Can you help you? Recent research has shown that those who ask themselves whether they will perform a task generally do better than those who tell themselves that they will.
- Second language learners recall native language when reading
- Adults fluent in English whose first language is Chinese retrieve their native language when reading in English, according to new research. The study suggests that people who learn a second language in adolescence or later recall the sounds of words from their native language.
- Visual system interprets sign languages
- Spanish sign language is used by over 100,000 people with hearing impairments and is made up of hundreds of signs. Researchers selected over 20 of these signs to develop a new visual interpretation system which allows deaf people to carry out consultations in the language they commonly use.
- Samoan language in decline
- School is replacing the home and church as the main place to learn the Samoan language, according to a researcher in Pacific culture.
- Wordy contracts baffle clients
- In a new study, more than 90 per cent of people were stumped by the contracts for loans and credit cards, failing to understand key features.
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