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Warmer means windier on world's biggest lake

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 15, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Rising water temperatures are kicking up more powerful winds on Lake Superior, with consequences for currents, biological cycles, pollution and more on the world's largest lake and its smaller brethren.


Bananas Gone Bad Glow Blue in UV-Light

Bananas Gone Bad Glow Blue in UV-Light

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nicholas Turro of Columbia University, Bernhard Krautler of the University of Innsbruck, Austria and their colleagues have found that, as chlorophyll ages and begins to disintegrate in banana ...


First step to converting solar energy using 'artificial leaf'

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 0

An international team of researchers has modified chlorophyll from an alga so that it resembles the extremely efficient light antennae of bacteria. The team was then able to determine the structure of these light antennae. ...


Scientists determine the structure of highly efficient light-harvesting molecules in green bacteria

Scientists determine the structure of highly efficient light-harvesting molecules in green bacteria

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of scientists has determined the structure of the chlorophyll molecules in green bacteria that are responsible for harvesting light energy. The team's results one day ...


New technique enables assessment of drought performance

Biology /

created Nov 12, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Measurement of chlorophyll fluorescence is an effective way of determining how well plants can cope with low-water conditions. The technique described in the open access journal Plant Methods, published by BioMed Central, allows ...


Blue bananas

Blue bananas: Ripening bananas glow an intense blue under black light

Chemistry /

created Oct 17, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (37) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ripe bananas are of course yellow. However, under black light, the yellow bananas are bright blue, as discovered by scientists at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) and Columbia University ...