News tagged with green


Green tea shows promise as chemoprevention agent for oral cancer, study finds

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Green tea extract has shown promise as cancer prevention agent for oral cancer in patients with a pre-malignant condition known as oral leukoplakia, according to researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer ...


82 healthy sea turtles hatch at San Diego SeaWorld (AP)

82 healthy sea turtles hatch at San Diego SeaWorld

Biology / Ecology

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

(AP) -- The population of endangered green sea turtles at SeaWorld in San Diego grew by 82 in October when the eggs hatched on Shipwreck Beach without human help.


Barack Obama speaks after touring the DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center

Obama unveils historic power grid reform

Technology / Energy

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (14) | comments 1

President Barack Obama Tuesday announced the largest modernization of the US electricity grid in history, in a 3.4-billion-dollar bid to launch a new era of renewable energy consumption.


Toyota to release solar charger for electric vehicles

Toyota to release solar charger for electric vehicles

Technology / Energy

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (26) | comments 10

(PhysOrg.com) -- Toyota is developing a solar charging station for electric cars and plug-in hybrids, making a green technology even greener. It has also designed a battery charger for mounting inside an electric ...


Scientists first to see RNA network in live bacterial cells

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists who study RNA have faced a formidable roadblock: trying to examine RNA's movements in a living cell when they can't see the RNA. Now, a new technology has given scientists the first look ever at RNA in a live ...


Scientists Use Self-Assembly to Make Molecule-Sized Particles With Patches of Charge

Scientists Use Self-Assembly to Make Molecule-Sized Particles With Patches of Charge

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists, chemists and engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have demonstrated a novel method for the controlled formation of patchy particles, using charged, self-assembling molecules ...


ACS podcast: Grow a garden on your roof to battle climate change

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

"Green" roofs, those increasingly popular urban rooftops covered with plants, could help fight global warming, scientists in Michigan report in the latest episode in the American Chemical Society's (ACS) award-winning podcast ...


Report documents the risks of giant invasive snakes in the US

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 4

Five giant non-native snake species would pose high risks to the health of ecosystems in the United States should they become established here, according to a U.S. Geological Survey report released today.


Cash register receipts a new BPA concern

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 1

If you read environmental news on a regular basis then you know that consumers are in an uproar about the revelation that SIGG water bottles contain bisphenol-A (BPA), despite the company's previous BPA-free advertisements. ...


Leafy greens present growing threat of food-borne illness, researchers say

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A growing threat for food-borne illnesses comes attractively packaged, is stunningly convenient and is increasingly popular with shoppers looking for healthy meals: ready-to-eat leafy greens that make putting together a green ...


Buying green can be license for bad behavior, study finds

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Those lyin', cheatin' green consumers. Just being around green products can make us behave more altruistically, a new study to be published in a forthcoming issue of Psychological Science has found.


This combo photo shows two views as Japanese auto giant Toyota Motor unveils the "FT-86 Concept"

Toyota unveils 'green' sports car

Technology / Energy

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Toyota unveiled Tuesday a new lightweight, sporty concept car inspired by an iconic coupe from the 1980s, saying its vision of the future was both mean and green.


Transgenic songbirds provide new tool to understand the brain

Biology / Other

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Over the decades, scientists have learned a lot about the basic life processes shared by many animals — including people — by manipulating the DNA of the "lower" species, such as mice and worms. But to date, ...


Scientists track green turtle’s 900km migration

Scientists track green turtle’s 900km migration

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Exeter scientists are part of the first team to monitor a sea turtle's journey from the Turks and Caicos Islands. The adult female green turtle, named ‘Suzie’ by local fishermen, ...


Hydrogen-making algae's 'Achilles' heel' discovered

Hydrogen-making algae's 'Achilles' heel' discovered

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have discovered how oxygen stops green algae from producing hydrogen. The findings could help those working towards 'solar H2-farms' in which microorganisms produce hydrogen fuel ...