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Cattle respond to magnetic fields from power lines

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (10) | comments 9

(AP) -- High-voltage power lines mess with animal magnetism. Researchers, who reported last year that most cows and deer tend to orient themselves in a north-south alignment, have now found that power lines can disorient ...


Hardy New Corn Lines Released

Hardy New Corn Lines Released

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Six new inbred maize lines with resistance to aflatoxin contamination have now been registered in the United States by the Agricultural Research Service (ARS). ARS plant pathologist Robert ...


Final rules out for government stem cell research

Biology / Other

created Jul 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The government is creating a master list of which embryonic stem cells qualify for taxpayer-funded research, now that President Barack Obama has lifted restrictions on the field.


New stem cell lines approved for tax-paid research

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Scientists can start using taxpayer dollars to do research with 13 batches of embryonic stem cells and the government says dozens more cell lines should be available soon, opening a new era for the potentially life-saving ...


NASA to Explore 'Secret Layer' of the Sun

NASA to Explore 'Secret Layer' of the Sun

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 08, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (29) | comments 0

Next April, for a grand total of 8 minutes, NASA astronomers are going to glimpse a secret layer of the sun.


New Peas Unfazed by Viral Bully

New Peas Unfazed by Viral Bully

Biology / Other

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Four advanced dry pea breeding lines that tolerate the pea enation mosaic virus (PEMV) -- a “scourge” of Pacific West pea crops -- have been identified by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) ...


Autonomous Antarctic Observatories Gather Space Weather Data

Autonomous Antarctic Observatories Gather Space Weather Data

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 09, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international scientific consortium has developed a series of autonomous observatories in Antarctica that for the first time provide critical year-round "space weather" data from the Earth's ...


Ganymede makes big impression on Jupiter's auroral lightshows

Ganymede makes big impression on Jupiter's auroral lightshows (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Studies of features in Jupiter’s spectacular and rapidly changing aurorae have given new insights into the complex electromagnetic interactions between the giant planet and two of its innermost ...


NM farmers work to preserve native chile varieties

Biology / Ecology

created May 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Gene Lopez has just finished planting his chile field in the same way he's planted his heat-packed crop for three decades. But as the years pass, there seems to be more immediacy behind each seed he places in the ...


Taking the Stress Out of Magnetic Field Detection

Taking the Stress Out of Magnetic Field Detection

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 28, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have discovered that a carefully built magnetic sandwich that interleaves layers of a magnetic alloy with a few nanometers ...


XMM-Newton takes astronomers to a black hole's edge

XMM-Newton takes astronomers to a black hole's edge

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 27, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using new data from ESA's XMM-Newton spaceborne observatory, astronomers have probed closer than ever to a supermassive black hole lying deep at the core of a distant active galaxy.


Gene developed through conventional breeding to improve cowpea aphid resistance

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The cowpea or black-eyed pea, as it is more commonly known, is a New Year's tradition for good luck. But disease and particularly aphids, which can wreck a crop within a few a days, are especially bad luck for the cowpea, ...


How space eruptions happen

How space eruptions happen

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Apr 07, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mathematicians at the University of St Andrews have made a discovery which could lead to a better understanding of why huge eruptions occur in space.


New Pest-Resistant Habanero Joins Peck of ARS-Created Peppers

New Pest-Resistant Habanero Joins Peck of ARS-Created Peppers

Biology / Other

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new red-fruited habanero is the latest pepper with resistance to root-knot nematodes to be released by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists.


It's all in your head. No, really: How mental imagery training aids perceptual learning

It's all in your head. No, really: How mental imagery training aids perceptual learning

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Practice makes perfect. But imaginary practice? Elisa Tartaglia of the Laboratory of Psychophysics at Switzerland's Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) and team show that perceptual learning—learning ...