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Shade trees can protect coffee crops

Traditional techniques offer promise for guarding against temperature and precipitation extremes

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Green coffee-growing practices buffer climate-change impacts

Chalk up another environmental benefit for shade-grown Latin American coffee: University of Michigan researchers say the technique will provide a buffer against the ravages of climate change in the coming decades.

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Growers do not reap benefits of rising food prices

New research on the commodity coffee market in Uganda finds that when prices percolate, coffee windfalls don’t fully reach the growers

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Coffee's aroma kick-starts genes in brain

Drink coffee to send a wake-up call to the brain? Or just smell its rich, warm aroma? An international group of scientists is reporting some of the first evidence that simply inhaling coffee aroma alters the activity of genes in the brain. In experiments with laboratory rats, they found that coffee aroma orchestrates the expression of more than a dozen genes and some changes in protein expressions, in ways that help reduce the stress of sleep deprivation.

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Dunkin Donuts Gives Away Free Iced Coffee

Dunkin' Donuts will offer free iced coffee on Thursday as part of its nationwide Free Iced Coffee Day Promotion. Interestingly the Free Iced Coffee promotion of Dunkin' Donuts coincides with the McDonalds Promotion of Free Chicken Sandwich, Biscuit For Breakfast, are the two fast food chains competing the same day or against each other at the same time?

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Starbucks Launches Pike Place Roast With Free Coffee Tasting

Starbucks reinvents brewed coffee category and hosts nation's largest coast-to-coast free Starbucks coffee tasting.

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Study finds that how container feels can affect taste

Does coffee in a flimsy cup taste worse than coffee in a more substantial cup? Firms such as McDonalds and Starbucks spend millions of dollars every year on disposable packaging, but a new study from the April issue of the Journal of Consumer Research suggests that trying to skimp in this area might not be worth it – and may negatively impact consumers’ perceptions of taste and quality.

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Starbucks Closing Early Tomorrow To Enhance Quality

Starbucks will be closing its doors for coffee drinkers early tomorrow morning for few hours as the workers will be getting a bit of learning at the behest of chief Howard Schultz.

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Doing the grounds, making coffee

University of Glasgow medical student Gill Campbell swapped her stethoscope for cappuccinos– and then showed the professionals who’s boss.

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At last machine with good taste — for espresso

Can a machine taste coffee" The question has plagued scientists studying the caffeinated beverage for decades. Fortunately, researchers in Switzerland can now answer with a resounding “yes.” The study on their coffee-tasting machine is scheduled for the March 1 issue of ACS’ Analytical Chemistry, a semi-monthly journal.

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Wiping out coffee-ring effect advances inkjet printing of electronic circuits

Researchers in California report a key advance in efforts to use inkjet printing technology in the manufacture of a new generation of low cost, high-performance electronic circuits for flexible video displays and other products.

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Insects on coffee plants follow widespread natural tendency

Ever since a forward-thinking trio of physicists identified the phenomenon known as self-organized criticality-a mechanism by which complexity arises in nature-scientists have been applying its concepts to everything from economics to avalanches.

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