Mom or dad may have driven you to cello rehearsal all those years, but you…
Month: June 2014
Organic agriculture boosts biodiversity on farmlands
Organic farming fosters biodiversity. At least that’s the theory. In practice, however, the number of…
Decoding characteristic food odors
How are we able to recognize foodstuffs like strawberries, coffee, barbecued meat or boiled potatoes…
Cheap and enviromentally friendly: Tofu ingredient could revolutionize solar panel manufacture
The chemical used to make tofu and bath salts could also replace a highly toxic…
Traffic light labels can give false sense of security
The labeling of product attributes using a traffic light system influences consumers in their purchasing…
Brain circuits involved in stress-induced fevers identified
When we feel mentally stressed, we often also feel physiological changes, including an increase in…
LEGO bricks turned into scientific tool to study plant growth
Engineers are using LEGO bricks to build controlled environments to study how variations in climate…
Changing roles of physicians with MBAs
Physician graduates from the MBA program in heath care management at Penn’s Wharton School report…
Physicists’ findings improve quality of flexible, conductive, transparent glass
A new technique will improve the quality of flexible, conductive, transparent glass. Companies such as…
Chimps like listening to music with a different beat
While preferring silence to music from the West, chimpanzees apparently like to listen to the…