News tagged with leafy green vegetables


Measuring nitrate concentrations in leafy green vegetables

Biology / Ecology

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

Leafy green vegetables such as lettuce, Asian greens, and spinach can accumulate high concentrations of nitrate-nitrogen (NO3-N), which are potentially harmful if consumed by humans. To measure NO3-N concentration in plant ...


Folic acid even more baby-protective than thought

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Baby-protecting folic acid is getting renewed attention: Not only does it fight spina bifida and some related abnormalities, new research shows it also may prevent premature birth and heart defects.





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Splitting fluorescent protein helps image clusters in live cells

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 26, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Half a protein is better than none, and in this case, it's way better than a whole one. A Rice University lab has discovered that dividing a particular fluorescent protein and using it as a tag is handy for analyzing the ...


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Chicken waste turned to watts

Technology / Energy

created Dec 26, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (13) | comments 3

A Nevada energy developer says it has developed an environmentally clean way of using animal waste from chicken farms across the state to light up homes and offices. Green Energy Solutions wants to convert ...


An easy way to see the world's thinnest material

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 1

It's been used to dye the Chicago River green on St. Patrick's Day. It's been used to find latent blood stains at crime scenes. And now researchers at Northwestern University have used it to examine the thinnest material ...


Student-Made 'Sustain-a-Bear' Puts Green Spin on Timeless Toy

Student-Made 'Sustain-a-Bear' Puts Green Spin on Timeless Toy

Technology / Other

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

Most teddy bears, regretfully, face a lonesome retirement once their owners grow up or move on.


Study sheds light on microscopic flower petal ridges

Study sheds light on microscopic flower petal ridges

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Microscopic ridges contouring the surface of flower petals might play a role in flashing that come-hither look pollinating insects can't resist. Michigan State University scientists and colleagues ...


Elevated-risk women refuse MRI breast cancer screening

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In a new study published in the January issue of Radiology, 42 percent of women eligible for breast cancer screening with MRI declined to undergo the procedure.


Many take dim view of new-fangled Christmas lights (AP)

Many take dim view of new-fangled Christmas lights

Technology / Energy

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (7) | comments 10

(AP) -- To Steven Walls, it's beginning to look nothing like Christmas, anywhere he goes.


Frederic Scheer, head of the plastics manufacturer Cereplast

Potatoes, algae replace oil in US company's plastics

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (18) | comments 6

Frederic Scheer is biding his time, convinced that by 2013 the price of oil will be so high that his bio-plastics, made from vegetables and plants, will be highly marketable.


Google has a digital foothold in France

Google gets digital foothold in France

Technology / Internet

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

Despite fierce resistance to Google's plans to digitise the world's books, observers say it is well placed to start scanning Europe's cultural treasures -- beginning in France, where the US giant got a digital ...


Hollywood adds money, talent to made-for-Web shows (AP)

Hollywood adds money, talent to made-for-Web shows

Technology / Internet

created Dec 20, 2009 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Web sites that buy original video clips often pay so little that "The Bannen Way," a flashy crime thriller debuting online, looked destined to be made poorly if it could be made at all.



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