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First evidence that weed killers improve nutritional value of a key food crop

First evidence that weed killers improve nutritional value of a key food crop

Chemistry / Other

created Jul 08, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Scientists are reporting for the first time that the use of weed killers in farmers' fields boosts the nutritional value of an important food a crop. Application of two common herbicides to several varieties ...


Scientists create new enzymes for biofuel production

Scientists create new enzymes for biofuel production

Biology / Biotechnology

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 3

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and world-leading gene-synthesis company DNA2.0 have taken an important step toward the development of a cost-efficient process to extract sugars ...





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Beer Here

Biology / Other

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Drinking beer is a simple act, but making beer is not. It starts out with genetics and tens of thousands of barley varieties and ends with a clear ambrosia that belies the time, effort and technology that ...


Sustainable Corn Production Supports Advanced Biofuel Feedstocks

Sustainable Corn Production Supports Advanced Biofuel Feedstocks

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers worldwide are trying to economically convert cellulosic biomass such as corn stover into "cellulosic ethanol." But Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have found that ...


Thanksgiving Combines Myths, Traditions and Truths, CU Professor Says

Thanksgiving Combines Myths, Traditions and Truths, CU Professor Says

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Over the centuries Thanksgiving in America has meant many things to many people. What we consider the traditional Thanksgiving holiday today has been around only a few decades, according ...


Polyphenols and polyunsaturated fatty acids boost the birth of new neurons

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Universitat Autňnoma de Barcelona (UAB, Spain) researchers have confirmed that a diet rich in polyphenols and polyunsaturated fatty acids, patented as an LMN diet, helps boost the production of the brain's stem cells ...


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Popcorn at the movies still an unhealthy treat

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- A study carried out in 1994 by advocacy group CSPI (Center for Science in the Public Interest) found that popcorn being sold by cinema chains in the US was high in saturated fat and calories, ...


New Method to Measure Snow, Soil Moisture With GPS May Benefit Meteorologists, Farmers

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A research team led by the University of Colorado at Boulder has found a clever way to use traditional GPS satellite signals to measure snow depth as well as soil and vegetation moisture, a technique expected ...


Dutch researchers make breakthrough in bioethanol production from agricultural waste

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

With the introduction of a single bacterial gene into yeast, researchers from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands achieved three improvements in bioethanol production from agricultural waste material: 'More ...


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Microbes to Take Over Ethanol Production?

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Not too long ago, it seemed that ethanol production was the wave of the future. The use of trash, wood chips or different types of plants -- usually grass or corn -- to make ethanol was considered ...


Microwave Meter Measures Moisture and Density of In-Shell Peanuts

Microwave Meter Measures Moisture and Density of In-Shell Peanuts

Biology / Other

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A microwave meter that instantaneously measures both moisture and density of in-shell peanuts has been developed by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists, making it easier and faster ...


Some 6,000 families were affected by the drought in the Chaco region of Paraguay, particularly indigenous populations

El Nino intensifies Latin America drought

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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

From a devastating food crisis in Guatemala to water cuts in Venezuela, El Nino has compounded drought damage across Latin America this year.



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