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Best management practices for invasive crane flies in northeastern United States sod production

A new study recently published in the Journal of Integrated Pest Management (JIPM) explains the best management practices for consideration and adoption by sod producers in the northeastern U.S.

Biology / Ecology

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

IPM decreased pesticide use in University of Florida housing

A new study recently published in the Journal of Integrated Pest Management (JIPM) shows that from 2003 to 2008, the use of insecticide active ingredients was reduced by about 90% in University of Florida housing buildings after ...

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Engineers build first sub-10-nm carbon nanotube transistor

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers have built the first carbon nanotube (CNT) transistor with a channel length below 10 nm, a size that is considered a requirement for computing technology in the next decade. Not ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (31) | comments 30 | with audio podcast feature

US seeks injunction on Indian drug firm Ranbaxy

US officials sought a "groundbreaking" injunction against Indian drug giant Ranbaxy on Wednesday, saying the maker of the first generic version of cholesterol-lowering Lipitor has failed to meet US safety guidelines.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Gold nanorods could improve radiation therapy of head and neck cancer

Radiation therapy is an important part of head and neck cancer therapy, but most head and neck tumors have a built-in mechanism that makes them resistant to radiation. As a result, oncologists have to deliver huge doses of ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Concurrent treatment for type 2 diabetes and depression significantly improves both conditions

(Medical Xpress) -- Patients simultaneously treated for both Type 2 diabetes and depression improve medication compliance and significantly improve blood sugar and depression levels compared to patients receiving usual care, ...

Medicine & Health / Health

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

Traditional Chinese medicine makes fertility treatments more effective: study

Traditional Chinese medicine has long been used to ease pain, treat disease, boost fertility, and prevent miscarriage. Known in the Western medical community by its acronym TCM, these traditional remedies include herbal preparations ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists refute Greenpeace claim that genetically modified corn caused new insect pest

An article in the forthcoming issue of the Journal of Integrated Pest Management (JIPM) refutes claims by Greenpeace Germany that the western bean cutworm (WBC), Striacosta albicosta (Smith), is "a new plant pest" that wa ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (13) | comments 4

Leaping lizards, dinosaurs have a message for robots: Get a tail

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of California, Berkeley, biologists and engineers including undergraduate and graduate students studied how lizards manage to leap successfully even when they slip and stumble, ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

New device could bring optical information processing

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have created a new type of optical device small enough to fit millions on a computer chip that could lead to faster, more powerful information processing and supercomputers.

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Protecting computers at start-up: New NIST guidelines

A new draft computer security publication from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provides guidance for vendors and security professionals as they work to protect personal computers as they start up.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Arsenic in water near coal-fired US plants: monitor

An environmental monitor Tuesday identified 19 new sites across the United States where groundwater near coal-ash dumps from power plants was found to be contaminated with arsenic and other pollutants.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Researchers develop one of the world's smallest electronic circuits

A team of scientists, led by Guillaume Gervais from McGill's Physics Department and Mike Lilly from Sandia National Laboratories, has engineered one of the world's smallest electronic circuits. It is formed ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

New 3-D transistors promising future chips, lighter laptops

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Purdue and Harvard universities have created a new type of transistor made from a material that could replace silicon and have a 3-D structure instead of conventional flat computer chips.

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Aging human bodies and aging human oocytes run on different clocks

Reproductive and somatic aging use different molecular mechanisms that show little overlap between the types of genes required to keep oocytes healthy and the genes that generally extend life span, according to Coleen Murphy, ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0