Researchers collaborate with same-gendered colleagues more often than expected across the life sciences

Additivity dominance: Additives are more potent and more often lexicalized across languages than are “subtractives”

Judgments of naturalness of foods tend to be more influenced by the process history of a food, rather than its actual constituents. Two types of processing of a “natural” food are to add something or to remove something. We report in this study, based on a large random sample of individuals from six countries (France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, UK and USA) that additives are considered defini...

TV nurses often hurt more than heal.

The impact of smoking on gender differences in life expectancy: more heterogeneous than often stated

BACKGROUND Throughout industrialized countries, tobacco consumption is seen as the predominant driver of both the trend and the extent of gender differences in life expectancy. However, several factors raise doubts to this generalization. We hypothesize that the impact of smoking on the gender gap is context-specific and differs between populations. METHODS We decompose the gender differences...

DNA-templated synthesis: more versatile than expected.

It has been known for almost twenty years that nucleic acids may promote chemical reactions. Catalytic nucleic acids can be found in nature or evolved through in vitro selection processes.[1] Structural and functional investigations suggest that catalytically active nucleic acids act in a similar manner to enzymes: they promote chemical reactions through the precise spatial alignment of the rea...

Building Ribosomes: Even More Expensive Than Expected?

Recent quantitative analyses of ribosomal protein trafficking in HeLa cells have revealed a prominent and unexpected role for the proteasome in regulating the availability of ribosomal proteins for subunit assembly.