Soya: a legume that is not as good as we thought
For starters, soy has high content of folate, vitamin K, calcium, magnesium, iron and fiber. It also has lots of other minerals, vitamin B12, omega 3 fatty acids and various antioxidants. Many...
Living green walls
It is an evolution of the garden wall, where an innovative structure, similar to a large honeycomb, hexagonal cells has inside plants. But it is not just an aesthetic issue and ecological...
Why twins look so much alike.. but they are not exactly the same?
I do not know if it has happened, but whenever I know twins (and it may be identical, modeled as two drops of water) tell me that, in fact, do not look much. And worst of all is that true. They are...
Fish have more complex personalities than suspected
Little fish called Trinidad guppies have individual “personalities”, according to a study by the University of Exeter focused on elucidating their behavior in different situations. The...
Four species of African giraffe
Genetic analysis of the nine subspecies of giraffes, belonging to the only species known to date have revealed that there are four distinct groups actually. The finding has major implications for...
The bike that can’t be stolen is ready
If Ties and Taco Carlier brothers had founded their business eighty years ago, perhaps the world would have been a little better, but we would have missed one of the great works of Italian...
Rubber to energy, history is blurred in the Amazon
Euro Tourinho was eight, in 1930, when he accompanied his mother to Campo Grande, the big city and then centrooccidente Brazil for the birth of a younger brother. They were 30 days of travel in a...
Discover why obesity of the mother affects the baby
Researchers Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston (US) have shown that umbilical cells children of obese mothers or overweight show that altering the expression of key genes that regulate energy and...
