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Tiny plant, big deal

February 27, 2013

The chickpea, also known as the garbanzo bean, is the world’s second-most widely grown legume crop after the soybean, making it a major component...

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Tech Tips

February 27, 2013

In this technology-driven world, there are many sites dedicated to providing different types of information to help people in their daily lives. Lifehacker offers...

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Heart to heart

February 27, 2013

With Valentine’s Day just recently passed and spring upon us, you may be feeling closer than ever to your romantic partner. Most couples take...

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Curing the incurable

February 27, 2013

In a recent multidisciplinary article published at the end of January in Nature Communications, lead author Peter Kaiser, professor of biochemistry at UC...

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Column: Why You’re Wrong

February 27, 2013

A little while ago, I wrote about how amazing plants are, and how they have been here longer than us, and will be here...

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Warming up to climate change

February 20, 2013

In some ways, understanding the effects of global warming comes down to measuring how microbes respond to warming soils. Through their incessant work in...

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Tech Tips: Safety in your pocket

February 20, 2013

Let’s all be honest with ourselves. Drinking is a reality of college and a lot of times, college students do not always make the...

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Column: The House Always Wins

February 20, 2013

Even if you don't believe in evolution, you can't deny that there are some truly amazing organisms that populate our planet. And if you...

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Not just a disease of the mind

February 20, 2013

Ole Andreassen, a professor at the UC San Diego School of Medicine, published an article on Feb. 7 in The American Journal of Human...

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Column: A matter of time

February 20, 2013

As an undergraduate scientist, amateur cyclist and chronic procrastinator, I concentrate a lot of my thoughts on the subject of time. I’m curious about...

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Column: Life, Sex and Everything

February 13, 2013

It’s that time of year again. The end of the second week of the year’s shortest month is rolling around and people are thinking...

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Diabetes treatment

February 13, 2013

In a recently published study, researchers from the UCSD School of Medicine and scientists from the San Diego-based biotech company Viacyte, Inc. investigated methods...

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Column: Debunking ‘Bro-Science’

February 13, 2013

So it’s been over a month since you promised yourself you would get those six-pack abs and a pair of python-sized biceps. You’ve probably...

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Medicine in a whole new light

February 13, 2013

There are many conventional and unconventional ways to treat ailments. Some people prefer the organic method, downing apple cider vinegar or sipping herbal tea...

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Tech Tips

February 13, 2013

Is your lover the fairest you’ve ever met? Were they born to finish your duet? If the answer is yes, you are in luck:...

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