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Cow power could generate electricity for millions

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 24, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (35) | comments 6

Converting livestock manure into a domestic renewable fuel source could generate enough electricity to meet up to three per cent of North America's entire consumption needs and lead to a significant reduction in greenhouse ...





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Plastics in oceans decompose, release hazardous chemicals, surprising new study says

Plastics in oceans decompose, release hazardous chemicals, surprising new study says

Chemistry / Other

created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 1

In the first study to look at what happens over the years to the billions of pounds of plastic waste floating in the world's oceans, scientists are reporting that plastics -- reputed to be virtually indestructible ...


New insights into the 'smell of death' could help recover bodies in disasters and solve crimes

New insights into the 'smell of death' could help recover bodies in disasters and solve crimes

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

In an advance toward the first portable device for detecting human bodies buried in disasters and at crime scenes, scientists today report early results from a project to establish the chemical fingerprint ...


Arctic land and seas account for up to 25 percent of world's carbon sink

Arctic land and seas account for up to 25 percent of world's carbon sink

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (8) | comments 0

In a new study in the journal Ecological Monographs, ecologists estimate that Arctic lands and oceans are responsible for up to 25 percent of the global net sink of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Under curren ...


Researchers discover 'radiation-eating' fungi

Biology /

created May 23, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (55) | comments 0

Scientists have long assumed that fungi exist mainly to decompose matter into chemicals that other organisms can then use. But researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found evidence ...


Carbon-offsetting and conservation can both be winners in rainforest

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Logged rainforests can support as much plant, animal and insect life as virgin forest within 15 years if properly managed, research at the University of Leeds has found.


New study shows that cocoa flavanols can be preserved during cooking and baking

Other Sciences / Other

created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

In a study published this month in the Journal of Food Science, scientists from The Hershey Company and Brunswick Laboratories (Norton, MA) showed that over 85% of the cocoa flavanols were preserved in recipes for chocol ...


7 new luminescent mushroom species discovered

Seven new luminescent mushroom species discovered

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Seven new glow-in-the-dark mushroom species have been discovered, increasing the number of known luminescent fungi species from 64 to 71. Reported today in the journal Mycologia, the new finds include two ne ...


Studying cancer in pet dogs to find new treatments for human patients

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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

A team of scientists at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Bethesda, USA, says that studying pet dogs with cancer could yield valuable information on how to diagnose and treat human cancers. In this week's PLoS Medicine, the te ...


Molten Proteins: Surface-modified liquid protein with liquid-crystalline properties

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Proteins are solids. When heated they do not melt; instead, they decompose or sublime directly to the gas phase at low pressures. They cannot be converted into a liquid form unless they are dissolved in a ...


New tactics in Guam rhino beetle invasion

New tactics in Guam rhino beetle invasion

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Canines and a bio-control organism come to the rescue of Guam's coconut trees in efforts to control an invasive species plaguing the island.



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