Cynthia Graber
The Boston Globe
Somerville, MA, United States
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The Future of Food: Podcast + story: The power of urban farming
The Future of Food from @GlobeIdeas: What we eat, where it comes from, and how we get it are being reimagined like never before. Our food can be tastier, more accessible, and healthier for us and the planet. → Read More
Oldest Known Indigo Dye Found in Peru
Fabric dyed with indigo just found in Peru is some 1,600 years older than indigo-dyed fabrics that have been found in the Middle East. → Read More
Ancient Mexican Metropolis Engaged in Hare-Raising Activity
Upending the belief that residents of ancient Central America did not practice animal husbandry, new evidence shows that people in Teotihuacán raised and bred rabbits and hares. → Read More
Silk Road Transported Goods--And Disease
A 2,000-year-old latrine in China provides the first hard evidence that people carried diseases long distances along the ancient trading route. → Read More
Biologists have recreated life inside a computer — NOVA Next
Using evolution as a guide, developmental biologists have built an organism using nothing but computer code. → Read More
Culinary explorer uses koji (yes, it’s a mold ) to make cookies
Mechanical engineer Rich Shih investigates food, then teaches others what he’s learned. → Read More
Oldest Chinese Beer Brewery Found
Remnants of a beer-making operation some 5,000 years old have been found in northern China. → Read More
This Plant Bleeds Nectar To Attract Help
When a species of nightshade is injured by hungry beetles, it produces sugary nectar at the wound site. The nectar attracts ants that then keep the beetles at bay. → Read More
Garbage Pickings Get Storks to Stop Migrating
Some white storks have stopped migrating from Europe to sub-Saharan Africa in the winter, because of the availability of food in landfills. → Read More
Quick Test Could Tell If Patient Needs Antibiotics
Antibiotics work against bacterial infections but are often prescribed to people with viral infections, which don't respond to the drugs. But a new gene test could show if a patient's infection is viral or bacterial. → Read More
Better Gut Microbiome Census Through Computing
Sophisticated computational techniques make it possible to analyze gene samples from all the bacteria in the gut at once to take a census of the species present. → Read More
Iceman Otzi Died With A Bellyache
Researchers were able to determine the genome of stomach bacteria that infected the famous Iceman at the time of his death, in the process giving us clues about ancient human migrations. → Read More
Individuals' Blood Glucose Levels After Meals May Be Predictable
Closely tracking 800 people's blood glucose levels in response to meals allowed researchers to develop a predictive algorithm for individuals. → Read More
Massive Survey Creates Amazon Tree Census
A tree survey in the Amazon by more than 150 researchers led to an estimate that up to 57 percent of Amazon trees could qualify for threatened species status by 2050 → Read More
Stone Age Pottery Reveals Signs of Beekeeping
Beeswax residues found on shards of Stone Age in the Mediterranean region indicate that humans were keeping honeybees as early as 9,000 years ago. → Read More
Fall Foliage Timing Comes into Clearer Focus
Researchers picked apart satellite imagery from two New England forest ecosystems to get a better handle on exactly what factors influence the timing of the color changes of the autumn leaves → Read More
Designer Probiotics for Cancer
New research on mice demonstrates a way to use designer bacteria as a non-invasive test for cancer. → Read More
Ancient Human Ancestors Heard Differently
Early human species may have had sharper hearing in certain frequencies than we enjoy, to facilitate short-range communication in an open environment. Cynthia Graber reports. → Read More
Domesticated Pigs Kept Oinking With Wild (and Crazy) Boars
Domesticated pigs had many dalliances with wild boars that added new genes to the pig population well after they settled had down on the farm. → Read More
Chinese Cave Graffiti Agrees With Site's Drought Evidence
Researchers linked dated graffiti about droughts in a cave in China to physical evidence in the cave of the water shortages, such as changes in ratios of stable isotopes in specific layers of stalagmites. → Read More