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Linear Gardens

New roadside beautification concept studied

Biology /

created Jul 17, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Travel America's highways or drive down any city street this summer and you'll probably see them. From small, manicured beds of flowers maintained by community volunteers to extensive landscaping projects ...





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Community gardens don't impact crime rate

Community gardens don't impact crime rate

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Urban residents across the United States have dug in to create green spaces in their neighborhoods, transforming vacant lots into colorful and crowd-pleasing community gardens. According to the American Community ...


Bumblebees make bee line for gardens

Biology /

created Jul 23, 2007 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Britain's gardens are vital habitats for nesting bumblebees, new research has found. The results come from the National Bumblebee Nest Survey, which are published online in the British Ecological Society's Journal of Applied ...


Detail from a Cassini radar image of sand dunes on Titan

Scientist finds alternate explanation for dune formation on Titan

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 25, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

A new and likely controversial paper has just been published online in Nature Geoscience by LSU Department of Geography and Anthropology Chair Patrick Hesp and United States Geological Survey scientist David ...


Bumblebee re-introduced to UK

Bumblebee re-introduced to UK

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 13, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

This month, a campaign was launched to re-introduce the short-haired bumblebee to the UK from New Zealand.


CERN boss wants to bid for linear collider

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

CERN’s director general Rolf-Dieter Heuer will push for the linear collider, the next big experiment in particle physics after the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), to be built at the Geneva lab. Heuer made his call to situate ...


AT&T files program complaint against Cablevision

Technology / Telecom

created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- AT&T Inc. has filed a complaint with federal regulators charging that Cablevision Systems Corp. is violating federal law by denying AT&T's video customers in Connecticut access to Cablevision's New York area sports ...


Silicon Detector Validated, Moves Forward

Silicon Detector Validated, Moves Forward

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two of the three detector design concepts for the proposed next linear collider have been validated by the International Detector Advisory Group, and their conclusions endorsed by the International ...


Ornamentals to Brighten the Fall Garden Palette

Ornamentals to Brighten the Fall Garden Palette

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- With “trick-or-treaters” coming soon, imagine two spirited new pepper varieties making an appearance in your neighborhood as well. The new pepper cultivars have been released by the Agricultural ...


Recycling Food Scraps into Gardens

Recycling Food Scraps into Gardens

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 07, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Each weekday, food scraps are collected from the Maryland Food Distribution Authority in Jessup, Md., and from small local food service and marketing establishments. Materials that do not contain metal, glass, ...


Termite creates sustainable monoculture fungus-farming

Termite creates sustainable monoculture fungus-farming

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Food production of modern human societies is mostly based on large-scale monoculture crops, but it now appears that advanced insect societies have the same practice. Our societies took just ...



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