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Music and mood: a hormone connection?
Why is a music professor taking blood samples and studying the hormone oxytocin?
Designers explore biomimicry to create sustainable products
By studying nature for clues to solving design and engineering problems, designers and engineers can create innovative solutions that will minimize the environmental impact of new products.
Ambassador of note
Clarinetist Robert Spring is quick to dispel the myth that musicians are born into t
Composing a future
Composer Tom Peterson is not very interested in music that balances consonance and dissonance.
A Shutter in Time
Most people assume that landscape photographs are about rocks or trees or space.
New beetle named for rock legend
An unusual new species of whirligig beetle from India has been named Ore
Dynamic instability
A series of microscopic time-lapse images show microtubules in the fungus Neur
Poetry reading by Alberto Rios
Listen to acclaimed poet Alberto Rios read four of his poems. Rios is a National Book Award finalist whose work blends the stories and traditions of two cultures and three countries.
Spindles on strings
Cell nuclei appear like spindles along the filaments of the cytoskeleton durin
The fungal body
This scanning electron microscope image shows the common mold Neurospora c