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Still feeling--or worse still, wearing--the effects of those Super Bowl suds? You may not know when to stop, but other species do. When plied with alcohol (flat beer and gelatin shots, actually), lab rats avoid unsightly bulges by cutting back on other calories. The rats also quit after the equivalent of two to three beers. --By David Bjerklie
Since his return to Harvard in 2001, Hyman has used a consensus-building leadership style honed in academia and the lab to quietly push through dramatic changes at Harvard after only three years...
...curvature in the leaf in one direction that causes it to flip like a tennis ball or a contact lens,” said Mahadevan, whose first Venus flytrap came in 2002 as a gift from Dumais, who was then a post-doctoral student in Mahadevan’s lab...
Everyday phenomena interest Mahadevan because, he said, “You don’t have to go to a fancy lab. You can look at how honey coils or folds when it hits your toast...how paper crumples or skin wrinkles...
...lack the analytical ability to think independently, to be bold." That creative thinking led the U.S. to its dominance in software, and India and China are looking for ways to re-create that spirit. It's a complicated puzzle, and one that probably will not be solved in a lab. --With reporting by Matthew Forney/Beijing