French artist Paul Gauguin is well known for his colorful paintings, but he also was…
Month: February 2015
Exploring the teenage brain, and its drive for immediate reward
Teenage exploration and risk taking could be explained by dramatic brain changes that allow planning…
Can cattle grazing management technique help capture and store carbon in soil?
Can beef production help restore ecosystems? Scientists are examining the adaptive multi-paddock (AMP) grazing management…
Social network analysis privacy tackled
Protecting people’s privacy in an age of online big data is difficult, but doing so…
Iconic graph at center of climate debate
The ‘Hockey Stick’ graph, a simple plot representing temperature over time, led to the center…
Going negative with carbon
A growing number of scientists warn that low-carbon technologies might not be enough to curb…
Formula for predicting innovation
Researchers are developing a mathematical technique to predict the emergence of scientific innovation, based on…
World’s first compact rotary 3-D printer-cum-scanner
The the world’s first compact 3-D printer that can also scan items into digitized models….
Structure-based design used as tool for engineering deimmunized biotherapeutics
In the first experimental use of algorithms that employ structure-based molecular modeling to optimize deimmunized…
Mapping the gut microbiome to better understand its role in obesity
Several recent science studies have claimed that the gut microbiome — the diverse array of…