Caltech biologist David Anderson and his colleagues identify a brain chemical involved in promoting aggression in fliesRecently, biologist David Anderson set out to learn whether flies, like bees, can get angry–part of a broader effort to study how an…
Many of the health benefits of aerobic exercise are due to the most recent exercise session (rather than weeks, months and even years of exercise training), and the nature of these benefits can be greatly affected by the food we eat afterwards.
New solution to 163-year old puzzle?New research suggests that animals living at high latitudes grow better than their counterparts closer to the equator because higher-latitude vegetation is more nutritious.
Billions of people today owe their lives to a single discovery now a century old. In 1909 German chemist Fritz Haber of the University of Karlsruhe figured out a way to transform nitrogen gas–which is abundant in the atmosphere but nonreactive and …
New material finds ‘needle in a haystack,’ shows promise for clean-upNot every object is food to a Venus flytrap.
Ecologists outline necessary actions for mitigating and adapting to a changing climateGlobal warming may impair the ability of ecosystems to perform vital services — such as providing food, clean water and carbon sequestration — says the nation’s lar…
Be sure to crack open a cold one on Jan. 24, the day canned beer celebrates its 75th birthday.
Beer – Food – Recreation – Drink – birthday
Emus and ostriches became fat, flightless birds after dinosaurs died out and were no longer around to chase them, scientists believe. An abundance of food and lack of predators following the mass extinction 65 million years saw previously flighted…
A $10.5 million research project aimed at mapping the DNA sequence of sunflowers could one day yield a towering new variety for both food and fuel.
A $10.5 million research project aimed at mapping the DNA sequence of sunflowers could one day yield a towering new variety for both food and fuel.