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This article is the sixth and probably last article in a minseries of six articles ( see the first , second , third , f ourth and fifth articles here) about civilization, fungus, and alcohol. Very little is known about the beginning of the story of humans and yeast.

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the United States, ultrafast trading in financial markets between 2006 and 2011 was the underlying factor for over 18,000 extreme price changes, according to a new study.

VANCOUVER Resistance to hydraulic fracturing in the U.S. has risen steadily in recent months.

A new study reveals that young entrepreneurs are driven by rule-breaking, thinking outside the box, and friendship. Today's young entrepreneurs are motivated to start companies because they hate authority and want to break all the rules, according to a recent study of 250 business owners between the ages of 18 and 22 years old.

I am very happy to introduce the newest addition to the Scientific American blog network Unofficial Prognosis , written by Ilana Yurkiewicz ( Twitter ). Ilana is a first-year student at Harvard Medical School who created Unofficial Prognosis to capture her reflections through her medical training. She graduated summa cum laude with a B.S

New research shows antibiotics don't make a difference when treating sinus infections. CBS News medical contributor Dr

A neuroscience technology breakthrough at the University of California, Berkeley, has major implications for the future of branding and marketing. It finally happened. Neuroscience technology can now reliably read our minds.

Scientists have created a new algorithm to detect virtual communities, designed to match the needs of real-life social, biological or information networks detection better than with current attempts. The results of this study by Lovro Šubelj and his colleague Marko Bajec from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia have just been published in European Physical Journal B.

You may not be doing all you can to increase your rankings.

Jurassic meow? Scientists at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, have come up with a novel idea for possibly saving endangered big cats: reproduce them in the lab.

HP, Best Buy, and JetBlue reveal how they use Twitter's enhanced profile pages to make every tweet sing. It’s still officially in velvet-rope mode, but Twitter’s enhanced profile pages are heavily in play for those brands among the first to sign up. So how are the early reviews?

Scientists have developed a new way to create electromagnetic Terahertz (THz) waves or T-rays - the technology behind full-body security scanners. The researchers behind the study, published recently in the journal Nature Photonics, say their new stronger and more efficient continuous wave T-rays could be used to make better medical scanning gadgets and may one day lead to innovations similar to the 'tricorder' scanner used in Star Trek.

A study says commenters with pseudonyms leave the most high-quality comments. Quick, guess who leaves higher quality comments: those with pseudonyms, anonymous commenters, or those with real names? It's those with the aliases, according to a study from commenting platform Disqus

Dr. John LaPook discusses the risks vs

Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was a true Renaissance man, distinguishing himself as an author, artist, poet, architect, and philosopher. Probably sometime in the 1430s, Alberti wrote “De commodis litterarum atque incommodes” (The Use and Abuse of Books), in which he extols the virtue of scholarship. In this work, Alberti also provided insightful commentary and life advice to scholars about marriage, choosing a profession, the state of education, and a number of other contemporary topics