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For California vintners, it's not easy being green

"Green" labels do not pack the same wallop for California wines that they do for low-energy appliances, organically grown produce and other environmentally friendly products, but it's not because there's anything wrong with ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 04, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Cloud computing 'made in Germany' stirs debate at CeBIT

When it comes to cars or machines, "made in Germany" is seen worldwide as a sign of quality, but some firms are now extending it to "cloud computing", the buzzword at this year's CeBIT tech fair.

Technology / Business

created Mar 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Pulling back the curtain: MIT anthropologist peers into the mysterious world of professional magicians

Magicians can make cards appear and people disappear. But the greatest trick any magician pulls off may be acquiring the knowledge needed to perform such acts in the first place.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Sep 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study: Word sounds contain clues for language learners

(PhysOrg.com) -- Why do words sound the way they do? For over a century, it has been a central tenet of linguistic theory that there is a completely arbitrary relationship between how a word sounds and what it means.

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 13, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Harmful illusions bedevil ideas about free markets and imprisonment: professor

The United States prizes freedom above most other civic values, yet Bernard Harcourt believes the notion is widely misunderstood and inconsistently applied.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Feb 28, 2011 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (14) | comments 97

Study: Green tea can alter how we perceive flavor

While trying to figure out what makes certain beverages cloudy, Cornell researchers made the startling discovery that certain chemicals in green tea -- and perhaps red wine -- react with saliva in ways that can alter how ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 14, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A correctly set circadian clock, whatever the light intensity

How are circadian clocks able to synchronize themselves accurately to the day/night cycle without taking account of extreme light intensity fluctuations over the course of a single day or from one day to the ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Cosmic accelerators discovered in our galaxy by UCLA physicists, Japanese colleague

Physicists from UCLA and Japan have discovered evidence of "natural nuclear accelerators" at work in our Milky Way galaxy, based on an analysis of data from the world's largest cosmic ray detector.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Aug 17, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (24) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

How red wine may shield brain from stroke damage

Researchers at Johns Hopkins say they have discovered the way in which red wine consumption may protect the brain from damage following a stroke.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 21, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Their infinite wisdom

(PhysOrg.com) -- Hotel guests come and go. But in the first decade of the 1900s, a pair of frequent Russian visitors to the Hotel Parisiana, near the Sorbonne on Paris' Left Bank, stood out vividly. The children ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (16) | comments 4

3 Questions: Steven Nahn on the elusive Higgs boson

(PhysOrg.com) -- Troubles at the Large Hadron Collider have led some physicists to suggest the Higgs boson is sabotaging its own discovery. Nahn explains why he disagrees.

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (41) | comments 10


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