Researchers find methyl jasmonate treatment enhances resistance to major insect pests in both model plants and crop species, while revealing distinct molecular pathways behind the shared protective ...

“Social priming” has been the punching-bag of psychology for the past few years. The term “social priming” refers to the idea that subtle cues can exert large, unconscious influences on human ...

Social priming is the field of research about how thinking about or interacting with something (like warm coffee, or old age) can affect later, vaguely related behaviour. (Rolf Zwaan has a useful ...

January 23, 2023 - Jury selection or voir dire is the critical first step in preventing shock verdicts and the inevitable terrible headlines. Voir dire, a French term meaning "to speak the truth," is ...

Seed priming is a pre-sowing technique that exposes seeds to controlled hydration and, in some cases, chemical or hormonal agents, thereby initiating metabolic processes without radicle protrusion.

As humans, it is in our nature to want to do better, find that edge and succeed. This couldn’t be truer than in sport, where winning and losing are often separated by tenths of a second, a successful ...