Grape Juice: Healthier Than Wine?

Grape Juice: Healthier Than Wine?

Many studies have suggested that moderate red wine consumption is beneficial to cardiovascular health. But what if you’d like to skip the alcohol? Take heart: laboratory research, just presented at…
Wired Article on Dark Data

Wired Article on Dark Data

Tom Goetz wrote a thoughtful article "It's Time to Free the Dark Data of Failed Scientific Experiments" in Wired this week. So what happens to all the research that doesn't yield a dramatic outcome…
Saber-Toothed Tiger More Like A Pussycat

Saber-Toothed Tiger More Like A Pussycat

In public imagination, the sabre-toothed cat Smilodon ranks alongside Tyrannosaurus rex as the ultimate killing machine. Powerfully built, with upper canines like knives, Smilodon was a fearsome…
Using Phish To Fight Phish

Using Phish To Fight Phish

Early findings by Carnegie Mellon University researchers suggest that people who are suckered by a spoof email into visiting a counterfeit Web site are also people who are ready to learn their lesson…
Do Universities Care About More Than Image?

Do Universities Care About More Than Image?

"What makes the modern university different from any other corporation?" That's the question asked in the NY Times this week. In light of increasingly unaffordable tuition rates and the profitable…
How we all can make a difference on occasion.

How we all can make a difference on occasion.

How we all can make a difference on occasion. But one Saturday morning in May, Eduardo Arias did something that would reverberate across six continents. He read the label on a 59-cent tube of…
fNIRS Technology Can 'Read Your Mind'

fNIRS Technology Can 'Read Your Mind'

Tufts University researchers are developing techniques that could allow computers to respond to users’ thoughts of frustration — too much work — or boredom—too little work. Applying non-invasive and…