Strategies to boost staff performance and morale by manipulating our desire for meaningful work often…
Month: January 2017
Scientists make plastic from pine trees
Most current plastics are made from oil, which is unsustainable. However, scientists have now developed…
Sweat bees on hot chillies: Native bees thrive in traditional farming, securing good yield
Farming doesn’t always have to be harmful to bees: Even though farmers on the Mexican…
Study applies game theory to genomic privacy
A new study presents an unorthodox approach to protect the privacy of genomic data, showing…
Scientists discover drug that increases ‘good’ fat mass and function
An FDA-approved drug has been identified that can create the elusive and beneficial brown fat….
Calorie restriction lets monkeys live long and prosper
Settling a persistent scientific controversy, a long-awaited report shows that restricting calories does indeed help…
Tiny fruit flies use cold hard logic to select mates
Fruit flies — the tiny insects that swarm our kitchens over the summer months —…
Why ‘platonic’ flies don’t copulate and what that could mean for humans
By studying the sexual behavior of a mutant strain of fruit fly called ‘platonic,’ researchers…
Opioids produce analgesia via immune cells
Opioids are the most powerful painkillers. Researchers have now found that the analgesic effects of…
Whether our speech is fast or slow, we say about the same
Fast talkers tend to convey less information with each word and syntactic structure than slower-paced…