October 9, 2012, 12:05 AM
It’s not just researchers who have noticed that people enjoy a nice glass of dark, red wine with their steaks. But they now know why. Common knowledge suggests that it is the cleansing sensation people appreciate in astringent foods such as a vinegary salad, a cup of tea...
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August 27, 2012, 12:05 AM
Throughout the animal kingdom, symmetry is considered beautiful. Female house finches like a male bird’s plumage to be the same shape and color on the right and left side of the body. White-tailed zygaenid moth females prefer males with symmetrical genital claspers, hind wings and...
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August 2, 2012, 12:05 AM
Lack of sleep won’t just saddle you with unsightly bags and dark circles under your eyes: It also can make you more susceptible to disease. New research from a team of California and Pennsylvania scientists has found a direct link between sleep and the effectiveness of...
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June 14, 2012, 12:05 AM
What is it about Jimi Hendrix that so many people find appealing? According to scientists at UCLA, it's all in the music – or rather, the dissonance in that music: the unexpected, jarring, almost distorted jamming of Hendrix’s guitar. That sound is very much like the alarm...
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April 1, 2011, 12:05 AM
Swedish researchers are hoping they have found a smell so disgusting that even bedbugs are repelled. It’s the smell of an alarmed adolescent bedbug. And if their study bears out, and if they can synthesize, bottle and deploy the smell sufficiently, they may have found a useful...
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