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High tunnels yield healthier, prettier produce and longer growing seasons
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Dec 02, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Fred Forsburg's tomatoes are perfect -- tough to do in a certified organic operation where no pesticides, herbicides or fungicides are used. The Livonia farmer's secret: growing tomatoes in ...
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Tunnel vision: Border Patrol agents to spot tunnels with advanced ground-penetrating radar
Jun 29, 2009 |
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Criminals of all kinds are digging tunnels along the U.S. border at a fast and furious pace. Of every tunnel ever discovered by U.S. border patrol agents, 60 percent have been found in the last three years. ...
Tunnels concentrate air pollution by up to 1,000 times
Aug 27, 2009 |
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A toxic cocktail of ultrafine particles is lurking inside road tunnels in concentration levels so high they have the potential to harm drivers and passengers, a new study has found.
Time-Tunneling for Climate Change Clues
Nov 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- If you look closely at individual plant species' responses in the past, you may find that the largest effects of high carbon dioxide (CO2) levels occurred decades ago, according to Agricultural ...
European XFEL Project Shines a New Light for Research
Oct 11, 2007 |
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A colossal project called XFEL located in Germany will allow the collective sciences gain understanding of solar cells, fuel cells and watch how atoms and molecules combine.
Drilling tiny tunnels gets easier in a big way
Sep 02, 2005 |
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The counterintuitive rules of physics at the nanometer scale create several thorny problems for scientists when they try to fashion three-dimensional channels in fluid-handling devices. Now, University of ...
Gardening may fight childhood obesity
Aug 28, 2007 |
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A Kansas professor says gardening may be the way to fight the growing problem of childhood obesity.
Triangles Go Underwater and Supersonic
Jun 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The seemingly effortless way dolphins and porpoises slice through the water and the unique capabilities of the supersonic Concorde airplane have more in common than one might think.
Building a stronger roof over your head: '3 little pigs' project begins first tests
Aug 25, 2008 |
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With hurricane season upon us, many wonder if the roof over their heads will hold firm in the face of high winds. This week, inaugural tests at The University of Western Ontario's 'Three Little Pigs' project at The Insurance ...
Intelligent System Offers Safer Tunnel Traffic For Europe
Aug 16, 2005 |
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A novel intelligent transport system to increase traffic safety provides a range of smart solutions to help reduce the risk of accidents in tunnels.
Going underground for a climate solution
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Hoping to help fix the Earth's atmosphere, Catherine Peters recently found herself 4,100 feet underground.
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