"A new linguistic study suggests university students who extensively text are less accepting of new words.... [The] study revealed that those who texted more were less responsive to new words as compared to students who read more traditional print media such as books, magazines, and newspapers."

Are you nomophobic?

"Goats can develop their own unique accents accent from their surroundings, a British study has suggested. Researchers found the animals develop their own speaking voice when they move away from their siblings and mingle with others. They found that a goats' 'accent' changed as they grew older and moved in different groups, disproving claims that their voices were entirely genetic."

The latest from the Generating Parental Anxiety genre of scientific study: Your attempts to lovingly spoon-feed your infant may make him an obese toddler.

"When you distract yourself from pain, you actually hurt less, a new study suggests." If you are in pain right now please go here to be distracted.

"It feels oh so good to scratch an itch, but exactly how much pleasure we get from scratching depends on exactly where on the body the itch is, a new study says." Bottom of the right shoulder blade or GTFO.

"It is a cliché almost as old as the motor car itself, and the subject of many a sexist joke. But the idea that women cannot park is simply untrue, according to research indicating that female drivers are more adept than men at manoeuvring into a space."