Will it Hurt? Uncertainty Is Worst of All, Says Study and other top stories.

• Will it Hurt? Uncertainty Is Worst of All, Says Study

  Not knowing if a decision will provoke pain is more stressful than correctly anticipating the outcome, even when that outcome hurts like hell, according to a study released Tuesday. Moreover, experiments with volunteers receiving electric shocks showed, the greater the stress the better subjects were at reading available clues to figure out the right response. “People whose stress tracks uncertainty more accurately are better at predicting when they’re going to get a shock,” Archy de Berker, a ..

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• Scientists nearly double sea level rise projections for 2100, because of Antarctica

  

  Landsat 8 natural-color mosaic of the ice cliff at the terminus of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica on Jan. 9. (Knut Christianson/USGS) This story has been updated. Sea levels could rise nearly twice as much as previously predicted by the end of this century if carbon dioxide emissions continue unabated, an outcome that could devastate coastal communities around the globe, according to new research published Wednesday.  The main reason? Antarctica. Scientists behind a new study published in..

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• 'Hobbit' found in Indonesia may have gone extinct earlier than thought

  

  It turns out a tiny hominin nicknamed the “Hobbit” may have disappeared from the Indonesian island of Flores much earlier than scientists originally thought. When it was first discovered in 2003 in the Liang Bua cave, an international team concluded that H. floresiensis was 18,000 years old and bone fragments were deposited there from 12,000 and 95,000 years ago. But after digging up new stratigraphic and chronological evidence from other parts of the massive, stalactites, filled cave, scientis..

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• Did "unicorns" roam the Earth 29000 years ago?

  Unicorns were real and once roamed the Earth -- well, at least ancient rhinoceroses that bear a passing resemblance and have been nicknamed after the mythical beast.New research from paleontologists from Kazakhstan and Russia published in the American Journal of Applied Sciences shows that the now-extinct species Elasmotherium sibiricum -- the "Siberian unicorn" -- possibly lived recently enough to have coexisted with early humans.The species was previously believed to have disappeared about 35..

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