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Food-mood Connection: The Sad Are Twice As Likely To Eat Comfort Food

Also, read Scientific Blogging columnist Seth Robert's interview with Brian Wansink here.

People feeling sad tend to eat more of less-healthy comfort foods than when they feel happy, finds a new study co-authored by a Cornell food marketing expert. However, when nutritional information is available, those same sad people curb their hedonistic consumption. But happier people don't.

Evidence For Human-caused Global Warming Is Now 'Unequivocal'

The first major global assessment of climate change science in six years has concluded that changes in the atmosphere, the oceans and glaciers and ice caps show unequivocally that the world is warming.

What's The Buzz? Harnessing Static To Improve Wireless Signals

Can network interference be used to expand and enhance communication for wireless devices such as cell phones, computers and personal digital assistants?

Want To Survive? Be Cute To Humans

As humans exert ever-greater influence on the Earth, their preferences will play a substantial role in determining which other species survive. New research shows that, in some cases, those preferences could be governed by factors as subtle as small color highlights a creature displays.

Congressional Appropriators Cut NASA Funding

The House Appropriations Committee has passed its version of the 2007 federal government budget. In it, funding for NASA was cut by $550 million (approximately 3.2%) from the amount proposed by the Bush Administration last February.

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