From the strange to the surprisingly specific, these cool names for things you use every day will expand your vocabulary and ...

Lofts Columella project, is a loft located on Columella Street in the northeast of Milan, as part of 25 lofts forming the residential complex by modifying a former industrial structure. To cover ...

Listen to haunting notes from an 18,000-year-old conch shell trumpet Archaeologists in 1931 assumed the shell was only a broken drinking cup.

From the Roman author Columella again come some suggestions for using human urine, this time for veterinary purposes: Sheep with bile issues were given human urine to drink, while those with lung ...

Columella is the most CHH-hypermethylated cell type in Arabidopsis To investigate patterns of DNA methylation in different plant cell types, we used protoplasting followed by fluorescence ...

Honey mustard may conjure up thoroughly modern images of drive-thru sandwiches and fast food sauce packets, but people have been making it since Roman times.

Figure 1: Root-tip regeneration and cell fate re-specification in wild type. Figure 2: Columella starch staining and root-tip regeneration in stem cell mutants. Figure 4: Regeneration competence ...

CATANIA, SICILY—A team of archaeologists has followed techniques outlined in ancient texts to plant a vineyard of local grapes that they hope will produce wines approximating what the Romans ...

Columella was no more a do gooder than the average HR manager today. The aim of promoting such welfare policies and employee consultation was to ensure a productive and, most importantly, servile ...