This Brazilian teen is all thumbs — really quick thumbs. Watch Marcel Fernandes Filho break his own Guinness World Record for the fastest time to type a text message on a mobile device. Guinness said that Filho, who used a Fleksy keyboard app on an iPhone 6 Plus, typed the following in 17 seconds without
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We may have more frenemies – people we both love and hate – than we realise, and they may be harming our health, researchers have warned. Experts say on average about half of our social network consists of people we have, as they put it, an ‘ambivalent relationship’ with. They say the stress of these
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“Good dog” just doesn’t cut it with pooches. Surprising new research shows that dogs prefer petting over verbal praise. “I spend half my day talking to my dog,” study co-author Dr. Clive Wynne, professor and director of the Canine Science Collaboratory at Arizona State University, told the Huffington reporter. “She always looks like it’s valuable
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People who have lucid dreams have superior problem-solving skills, scientists claim. Researchers say that people who can recognise that they are dreaming while being sound asleep, can solve problems in the waking world better than those who remain unaware of the dream until they wake up. This is because they have an extra level of
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If you’re the sort of person who worries about asteroids, a new map from NASA’s Near Earth Object Program is unlikely to offer much reassurance. It shows that during the 20-year period from 1994 to 2013, the Earth’s atmosphere was hit by small asteroids resulting in fireballs (bolides) on at least 556 separate occasions–or essentially
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Kissing just got a whole lot less romantic–at least for germaphobes. A new study shows that a single French kiss can transfer up to 80 million bacteria from one person to another. For the study, 21 couples visiting a zoo in Amsterdam were asked to lock lips for 10 seconds. Before the kiss, one member
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Changing the way we walk can change our mood and boost our happiness, a study found. It’s long been known that our mood affects our posture: sad people slump their shoulders while happy people bounce along the street. Now researchers have shown it works the other way too – making people imitate a happy or
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We often find ourselves crying — the universal sign for unhappiness — when we feel overwhelmed with intense positive emotions. According to a new study, we may display this sort of negative reaction to a joyful experience as a way of keeping ourselves from getting too overwhelmed with good feelings. The study, conducted at Yale
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“Keep smiling” may not be the best piece of advice or coping strategy for some people after all, suggests new research. The researchers found that smiling frequently may actually make people feel worse if they’re sort of faking it — grinning even though they feel down. When people force themselves to smile because they hope
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So maybe you were too embarrassed to ask, but we’re guessing you’ve been wondering why your flatulence is so much less offensive than that of other people. It turns out that science has several explanations, according to a new video (above) from the YouTube series ASAPScience. For starters, “the more familiar you are with something,
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