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Beautiful Make-Up Free Emma Watson Looks Fresh Faced and Young
Emma Watson is caught on camera without a stitch of make-up and she looks absolutely beautiful… and about 15-years-old. Strawberries and Granola The 22-year-old actress was snapped carrying strawberries and granola back to her trailer in New York, where she’s shooting the new Noah’s Ark film with Russell Crowe. The healthy snack must […]
Brief History: The Periodic Table
Six atoms may seem minuscule–especially if they exist for only fractions of a second–but they can have huge implications. The recent announcement that Russian and American scientists finally managed to produce a tiny bit of element 117 by firing calcium atoms at berkelium fills in a missing spot on the periodic table
The Global Ambition of Rick Warren
Rick Warren has Rick Warren syndrome.
Origin of Life: 50-Year-Old Experiments Give New Clues
Jeffrey Bada was comparing notes with his colleague Antonio Lazcano a couple of years ago, when something brought him up short. The two chemists, one from the U.S
First woman wins Nobel Prize for economics
Americans Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson won the Nobel Prize for economics for work on how community institutions can prevent conflict, the Nobel Committee announced Monday. Ostrom becomes the first woman to win the prize in its 40-year history
Chemistry Nobel honors research on life-giving ribosome
Two Americans and an Israeli were awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for painstakingly mapping out the thousands of atoms that make up the ribosome — work that paves the way for new antibiotics. Inside all animals, plants and bacteria are DNA molecules that contain the blueprint for life
U.S. Shoots for the Moon, This Time to Stay
Say this for the U.S. space program: we may have spent the last 40 years mostly ignoring the moon, but when we go back, we go back with a bang
The laws of sexual attraction
Physical attraction may be as old as time, but new studies are beginning to uncover the science behind sex appeal. Unexpected factors — like biochemical odors, face shape and voice pitch — just might have more to do with your choice of mate than anyone ever expected. Karl Grammer and Elizabeth Oberzaucher are leading the research on the human scent’s influence on sexual attraction.