The “straight” prefix on a whiskey like bourbon or rye indicates that, legally, the whiskey inside those bottles has to have been aged in charred new oak containers for at least two years. In line ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Professor Vernon Burton argues for "The South" to be studied as a distinctive region of the United States Geographers organize areas of the earth ...

Metastatic cancer occurs when cancer spreads from its original site of origin to a distant location in the body. When cancer metastasizes to a different organ, it retains similar features and ...

A new report from the World Health Organization has revealed the most popular alcohol preferences in six major regions of the world. The WHO regions (as shown on the chart below from left to right) ...

We have shown that GWAS data explain a considerable proportion (approximately 30%) of the phenotypic variance between MS cases and controls. 9 The aim of this study was to investigate which chromatin ...

Hardly any other place worldwide boosts such a hyperdiverse flora as is to be found on the southwestern tip of Africa. The flora is moreover quite unique with almost 70 % of the native species being ...

PATTERNS in your brain could signal whether you are a parent or a pet owner. Different levels of brain activity correspond to types of love, with some areas "lighting up" more than others. Scientists ...