The perfect cup of coffee boils down to four factors
By Don Brushett
Welcome to the second instalment in our series Chemistry of Coffee, where we unravel the delicious secrets of one of the most...
Metabolomics: wine and cheese, curing disease … no doping please
By Darren Saunders, Garvan Institute and Rae-Anne Hardie, Garvan Institute
Rapid developments in tools to study complex interactions are transforming biology and biomedical research.
A series...
Crime pays – could it offer students more than an MBA?
By Mike Marinetto, Cardiff University
Once upon a time, in the warm neoliberal afterglow of the 1990s – the early post-Thatcher age – the MBA...
New ammunition in the battle to save North American bats from white-nose syndrome
By Chris Cornelison, Georgia State University
It’s been roughly eight years since white-nose syndrome (WNS) was first documented decimating bat populations in upstate New York....
Awake, online and sleep-deprived – the rise of the teenage ‘vamper’
By Elizabeth Englander, Bridgewater State University
About three years ago, a teenage girl was talking with me and other students about using her cell phone...
Neglected immunisation could almost double child measles in Ebola-hit countries
By Andrew J Tatem, University of Southampton
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has been one of the biggest public health disasters of modern times....
50 years ago, the Rolling Stones’ first US hit evinced the band’s eclectic style
By John Covach, University of Rochester
In the first weeks of 1964, the Beatles’ “I Want To Hold Your Hand” raced up the US charts,...
The effect Mr Spock had on me
By Temple Grandin, Colorado State University
Editor’s Note: Temple Grandin, Professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University and an advocate for people with autism,...
