More than just a beer—the potential applications of by-products from beer manufacturing in polymer technology

More than just vanilla.

More than just big ears

To the non-specialist, large ears in elephants used to mean African, small ears, Indian. But to taxonomists African elephants have long posed a more complex puzzle. During the nineteenth century, it was fashionable for wealthy trophy hunters to assign their own names to species they had shot destined for the museums of Europe. At least 18 elephant subspecies were claimed following this fashion....

EHPnet: More Than Just Unleaded

[Traveling is more than just getting from A to B].

Traveling is not just a means for moving about; traveling is a pleasure. There are few people who do not like to travel. Traveling can mean visiting your family just a few miles away, and traveling can mean going around the world. But deep down, it is all the same: traveling. One of the oldest known examples is that of Herodotus, who traveled around the known world of the time, observing and re...

Lipolysis: more than just a lipase

Successful adaptation to starvation in mammals depends heavily on the regulated mobilization of fatty acids from triacylglycerols stored in adipose tissue. Although it has long been recognized that cyclic AMP represents the critical second messenger and hormone-sensitive lipase (HSL)* the rate-determining enzyme for lipolysis, simple activation of the enzyme has failed to account for the robust...