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The discovery of lager yeast's parentage has implications for brewers, and Diego Libkind, the primary researcher on a new study, is already tapping into some of these ideas. A new discovery has unlocked the secret story of lager beer’s South American origins, and is letting scientists piece together the genetic history of the domesticated microbe that keeps lager cool.

We all know anger is bad… right?

(Hint: You're already doing it just by reading this.) Here's a novel way to increase productivity: Try browsing the Internet.

By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Plants and animals are responding up to three times faster to climate change than previously estimated, as wildlife shifts to cooler altitudes and latitudes, researchers said on Thursday. Scientists have reported this decade on individual species that moved toward the poles or uphill as their traditional habitats shifted due to global warming, but this study analyzed data on over 2,000 species to get a more comprehensive picture

Instead of simply blocking HIV from replicating, a new drug in trial stages causes it to mutate. If it works, it could eventually fully eliminate HIV in people who have the disease, freeing them from a lifetime of drugs. HIV is big business

Sure, the soccer uniforms, piano lessons and college tuition add up--but there is nothing like being a parent.

An intimate look at a group of elite Beijing high-school students reveals how China's schooling system is one of the resurgent nation's greatest strengths--and biggest weaknesses. .caption {color:#666;font-size:11px;} .caption img {border-bottom:2px;} During recess, students at the Second High School Attached to Beijing Normal University--like their counterparts across the nation--gather in the courtyard to do calisthenics.

More than half start their businesses to have something tangible to pass to their children, versus a third of the general population.

By giving male mosquitoes a case of intense infertility (and counting on the females to not notice anything, um, missing from the experience), scientists hope they can prevent a second generation of bugs from spreading malaria.

By Natasha Gilbert of Nature magazine Tinkering with male mosquitoes so that they cannot produce sperm is a promising way to control the spread of the malaria-carrying insects in the wild. Researchers had been concerned that female Anopheles gambiaemosquitoes might not be fooled into mating with the spermless males, but lab tests show that they are just as attracted to sterile males as to normal ones1

By Melissa Gaskill of Nature magazine The 1,000 kilometers of impenetrable barrier constructed along the Mexico-United States border, with the aim of stemming illegal human immigration, is also hampering the movements of animals, including several endangered species, a recent study finds. The species most at risk are those with smaller populations and specialized habitats, says Jesse Lasky, a graduate student at the University of Texas, Austin, and an author on the study, published in Diversity and Distributions

Can our expectations for the future change how we remember the past? According to a new study published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology , they can--we remember unpleasant experiences more negatively if we expect to endure them again. Researchers at New York University and Carnegie Mellon University conducted seven experiments to determine how people’s expectations shape their memories

Cities get faster and more productive as they get bigger and last forever. Companies get slower and more boring, and then they go out of business. Can companies change that model?

Those calorie counts on fast food menus that make you feel bad about your extra-large fries actually work.

A crusader from Attrition.org has found that an alarmingly high number of books written by computer security experts are nearly 100% copied from other sources. What does that say about the industry? Borrowing code is standard operating procedure for those who work with software.