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Dry onion skin has a use

More than 500,000 tonnes of onion waste are thrown away in the European Union each year. However, scientists say this could have a use as food ingredients. The brown skin and external layers are rich in fibre ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jul 14, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The tulip entered Europe through al-Andalus five centuries before believed

A new study carried out at the University of Cordoba and the School of Arabic Studies provides information on the arrival of the flower to Europe. Contrary to what was thought up until now, the first bulbs ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0




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Increasing healthy food options makes economic sense

If there is an obvious truth one can learn from perusing the various dining options on Lehigh’s sprawling Asa Packer campus—from the University Center and Rathbone Hall to the sorority and fraternity houses on “the ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Corn gene helps fight Multiple Leaf Diseases

(PhysOrg.com) -- A specific gene in corn seems to confer resistance to three important leaf diseases, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and their university colleagues.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Will Facebook deliver an IPO surprise?

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg turns up at business conventions in a hoodie. "Cocky" is the word used to describe him most often, after "billionaire." He was Time's person of the year at 26.

Technology / Business

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Straight from the horse's mouth -- study reveals owners supplement choices

Horse owners are most likely to use their vet to guide the choice of nutritional supplements they feed their animal, but also rely heavily on recommendations from other riders, a unique study has revealed.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Saving the snow leopard with stem cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- The survival of the endangered snow leopard is looking promising thanks to Monash University scientists who have, for the first time, produced embryonic stem-like cells from the tissue of ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Google's 4Q lobbying bill triples to $3.76 million

Google's U.S. lobbying bill more than tripled to $3.76 million in the fourth quarter as the Internet search leader fought proposed changes to online piracy laws and sought to influence a wide range of other issues that could ...

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created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Lab-made tissue picks up the slack of Petri dishes in cancer research

New research demonstrates that previous models used to examine cancer may not be complex enough to accurately mimic the true cancer environment. Using oral cancer cells in a three-dimensional model of lab-made tissue that ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Ohio quakes could incite fracking policy shift

(AP) -- In Ohio, geographically and politically positioned to become a leading importer of wastewater from gas drilling, environmentalists and lawmakers opposed to the technique known as fracking are seizing on a series ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Revolutionary new camera reveals the dark side of the Universe

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new camera that will revolutionise the field of submillimetre astronomy has been unveiled on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) in Hawaii SCUBA-2 is far more sensitive and powerful ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (16) | comments 17

Small businesses turn to Square for credit transactions

Cabbie David Mendoza reached for his iPhone and plugged in a spiffy Square Reader to process a ride's fare.

Technology / Business

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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