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General Science
Best of the Ig Nobel prizes 2009
Friday, October 2nd, 2009 - 16:45:56 - Anuradha Menon
Why don't pregnant women topple over? Do cows notice kindness? Does cracking your knuckles bring on arthritis? And is there more than one use for a...

General Science
Acclerating Evolution
Monday, July 27th, 2009 - 19:38:11 - Ehud Rattner
If humans want to persuade microbes to produce vast quantities of fuels or pharmaceuticals, we may need to give evolution a helping hand. A new...

Medicine
Plastic Bottles Leach Chemicals Into Humans
Saturday, May 23rd, 2009 - 14:30:37 - Anuradha Menon
A new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers found that participants who drank for a week from polycarbonate bottles, the...

Biology
Some Reproductive Spores Are Aerodynamic
Monday, January 5th, 2009 - 12:13:02 - Ehud Rattner
The reproductive spores of many species of fungi have evolved remarkably drag-minimizing shapes, according to new research by mycologists and applied...

General Technology
Laser ‘Knife’
Laser ‘Knife’
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 - Roni Barr
An international research team, led by Federico Capasso at Harvard University and his graduate student Nanfang Yu, recently...

General Science
Quitting Smokers Act Like Flocks of Birds
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 - 18:11:00 - Ehud Rattner
Teenagers are often pressured into lighting up their first cigarette by their friends, but a new study finds that total strangers persuade smokers to...

Medicine
Life Expectancy Worsening or Stagnating
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 - 14:22:49 - Ehud Rattner
A new, long-term study of mortality trends in U.S. counties over the same four decades reports a troubling finding: These gains are not reaching many...

Space
Laser to Help Find New 'Earths'
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 - 21:14:55 - Ehud Rattner
Harvard scientists have unveiled a new laser-measuring device that they say will provide a critical advance in the resolution of current...

Biology
How Do We Judge the Thoughts of Others?
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 - 22:42:16 - Ehud Rattner
How do we know what another person is thinking? New research made at Harvard University in Cambridge suggests we use the same brain region that we do...

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