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Texas Tech Using Remote Sensing Technology to Improve Peanut Crops

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers are using remote sensing to estimate biophysical characteristics including ground cover and yield.


Flight of fancy

Flight of fancy: MIT autonomous mini-helicopter solves one tough challenge

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (13) | comments 2

In its first 18 years, the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International’s annual aerial-robotics competition posed four successive challenges, which robotics researchers had to meet using entirely ...


The Monarchs' annual migration ritual has yet to be scientifically explained

Tree-eating bugs threaten Monarch butterfly in Mexico

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 21, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The mysterious Monarch butterfly, which migrates en masse annually between Canada and Mexico, is now facing a new peril: another insect thriving in Western Mexican forests.


Robots perform Shakespeare to learn how to save people

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Flying robot fairies are joining human actors in Texas A&M University?s production of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, which runs through Sunday (Nov. 15) in the Rudder Forum.


Robot Armada Might Scale New Worlds

Robot Armada Might Scale New Worlds

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (11) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- An armada of robots may one day fly above the mountain tops of Saturn's moon Titan, cross its vast dunes and sail in its liquid lakes.


There are about 50,000 to 60,000 orangutans left in the wild

Orangutans struggle to survive as palm oil booms

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cinta, a baby orangutan found lost and alone in a vast Borneo palm oil plantation, now clings to a tree at a sanctuary for the great apes, staring intently at dozens of tourists.


Despite claims, U.K. did not gas Iraqis in the 1920s, scholar says

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- It has passed as fact among historians, journalists and politicians, and has been recounted everywhere from tourist guidebooks to the floor of the U.S. Congress: British forces used chemical weapons on Iraqis ...


Spiraling Flight of Maple Tree Seeds Inspires New Surveillance Technology (w/ Video)

Spiraling Flight of Maple Tree Seeds Inspires New Surveillance Technology (w/ Video)

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Maple tree seeds (or samara fruit) and the spiraling pattern in which they glide to the ground have delighted children for ages and perplexed engineers for decades. Now aerospace engineering ...


Budgerigar - Melopsittacus undulatus

Edge detection crucial to eyesight

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a major advance in understanding how our eyesight works, Australian scientists have shown that birds' amazing flight and landing precision relies on their ability to detect edges.


Rensselaer researchers to develop and test next-generation radar systems

Rensselaer researchers to develop and test next-generation radar systems

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have received a grant for $792,000 from the U.S. Air Force to create a new laboratory for developing and testing next-generation radar systems that overcome ...


Using Lasers to Map Bird Habitat

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Lasers are providing scientists with new tools for mapping, protecting, and restoring bird habitat along rivers. In a paper published in the October issue of Ecological Applications, scientists from PRBO C ...


Canker disease in eucalyptus in the Basque Country

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The first experiences with exotic species in the Basque Country, and alternative to Pinus radiata, were undertaken in 1957, concretely in Laukiz, Lezama and Alonsotegui (Muro, 1975) where the eucalyptus, amongst other forest ...


Study finds one-time herbicide use decreased native plants, may have increased invasive plants

Study finds one-time herbicide use decreased native plants, may have increased invasive plants

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Matt Rinella, faculty in Animal and Range Science at Montana State University and an ecologist at the Fort Keogh Agricultural Experiment Station in Miles City, recently published the results ...


Making a clean getaway: Scientists demonstrate how bird baths make for more accurate flyers

Making a clean getaway: Scientists demonstrate how bird baths make for more accurate flyers

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Newcastle University scientists investigating why starlings bathe so often have discovered it alters their escape behaviour, with clean birds proving the most accurate flyers.


Caistor skeleton mystifies archaeologists

Caistor skeleton mystifies archaeologists

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (14) | comments 1

A skeleton, found at one of the most important, but least understood, Roman sites in Britain is puzzling experts from The University of Nottingham.