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Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover … Judge by Its Smell
November 18, 2009 – 1:01 am | No Comment
Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover … Judge by Its Smell

A recently published article in the journal Analytical Chemistry discusses the distinct “aroma” produced by old books and aims to better describe – at the molecular level – that musty smell you encounter in the …

Maybe you should rethink that all-nighter?
September 24, 2009 – 6:47 pm | No Comment

A new study published in Science hints at a connection between sleep (or lack thereof) and the development of Alzheimer’s disease.  In both mice and humans, amyloid-beta peptide levels rose during waking hours, but then fell …