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In the first study, Paul Shaw at Washington University in St. Louis monitored the relationship between brain activity and sleep patterns in a group of fruit flies and isolated three key genes responsible for dictating how much sleep flies got in certain situations and when. Under normal conditions, flies doze...
Such alertness may not seem like a bad thing, except that in a second paper in the same issue of Science, Giulio Tononi at the University of Wisconsin found that sleep appears to function as a critical shutoff valve for the fruit-fly brain. After a period of sleep, the...
...decreasing parking rates for compact cars in its garage. Starting April 22, The Charles Hotel will debut the nanoMAX small car detection system, which will gauge the size of vehicles and automatically encode the information onto the dispensed parking tickets. To reward drivers who choose environmentally-friendly vehicles, compact cars will receive a discounted rate. Normal and oversized cars will not see an increase in parking fees. “We’re constantly looking for ways to make contributions to the community and the environment,” said Alex Attia, the hotel’s general manager...
Alo, a high-end women’s clothing boutique, is closing its doors permanently after nearly nine years in Harvard Square. Owner Marie Santa Maria, who along with her husband Hernando also owns and operates the boutique Via Vai across the street, said that rising rent and a mismatch...
The House produced a long-awaited bill to regulate 85% of U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions, anteing up for what promises to be long, high-stakes negotiations with the Senate and business groups alarmed at the $1 trillion price tag that some estimate such an effort could entail. The effects of...