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Admittedly, it can't wax poetic about the mouthfeel of a pinot or the flavors of mown grass and flint in a 2007 sauvignon. But an electronic "tongue" recently unveiled by scientists at Barcelona's Institute for Microelectronics is capable of identifying different wines and may be used as a...
The technology has been in the works for some time. Scientists at the Institute had already developed membranes that could distinguish mineral content in different waters. "It was Cecilia's idea to apply the technology to wine," says César Fernández, speaking for his colleague Jonquera-Jim...
Others see broader forces at work, forces that stem from Spain's relatively late transition to democracy. "Until recently, sports weren't important in Spain," explains sociologist David Moscoso, of the Institute for Advanced Social Studies. "They really only existed in private schools - they were for the elite." With democracy...
Researchers have been scrambling to respond to a crisis that has rocked France's ostreiculture industry since last month: the discovery that 40% to 100% of oysters aged 12 and 18 months being raised in France's Atlantic cultivation beds had died. The reason, officials at the French Institute for...
Born in Ohio and schooled at the University of Cincinnati, Ivins worked at Fort Detrick for 28 years. He lived in a small white house with his wife and two adopted children, directly across the street from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases, and Ivins walked to...