Plastic – Too Good to Throw Away – NYTimes.com
"“Eliminating plastic is one of the greenest actions you can do to lower your eco-footprint,” one noted while participating in a recent online challenge to...
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Structural biology: Breaking the protein rules : Nature News
This review brings together the research that counters the fallacy that proteins need to have a defined structure (as seen in crystal structures) to have a func...
Friendly bacteria fight the flu : Nature News
“Neomycin-sensitive bacteria naturally present in the mice’s bodies provided a trigger that led to the production of T cells and antibodies that cou...
Do gut bacteria worsen malnourishment? : Nature News
“Ultimately, Smith would like to identify a bacterium or set of bacteria that protects children from kwashiorkor, and add it to the emergency rations hand...
Could Amateur Taxonomists Catalog Earth’s Fauna? – ScienceInsider
"Taxonomy has a reputation as one of science's least glamorous fields, and experts have been sounding an alarm over declining funding and a global dea...
PepsiCo unveils 100% plant-based bottle – Crain’s New York Business
"PepsiCo says it is the world's first bottle of a common type of plastic called PET made entirely of plant-based materials." Until I learn more, ...
Brain Scanner as Accessory – ScienceNOW
"Researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York have developed a Rat Conscious Animal PET (RatCAP) imager, which allows a rat to wear a scanner ...
Old Style Marketing vs Social Evidence
Traditional marketing ain’t dead yet. Old skool, that’s how we roll I was in a meeting last month and one marketing manager’s idea of promoting a sponsor was to...
SXSWi field report, part 1 | Dentsu London
"But as SXSWi ramped down, and the cool kids filtered in for Music, the decision was simple: I'm going back next year. It's the meeting place for...
How Humans Got Spineless Penises and Big Brains – ScienceNOW
Very cool summary of a recent finding regarding regions of the genome that a missing in humans and Neanderthals but conserved in most mammals. "Sometimes l...