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Oil seed rape grown for biofuel can help clean up toxic soils

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 09, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Oil seed rape grown for biofuel in Ireland could help clean up contaminated soils, scientists heard today at the Society for General Microbiology's Autumn meeting being held this week at Trinity College, Dublin.





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MU researcher uses bacteria to make radioactive metals inert

Researcher uses bacteria to make radioactive metals inert

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (14) | comments 16

The Lost Orphan Mine below the Grand Canyon hasn't produced uranium since the 1960s, but radioactive residue still contaminates the area. Cleaning the region takes an expensive process that is only done in ...


Drought tolerant cowpea can improve crop yield in arid West Africa

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Even the highly drought-resistant cowpea (a long type of legume) now has an increasingly difficult time surviving in the Sahel countries where climate change has resulted in shorter and less frequent rainy seasons. Wageningen ...


Kilo of metal found in Peruvian's stomach: surgeon

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Doctors in northern Peru have removed almost a kilogram of nails, coins and scrap metal from a man's stomach, a surgeon that operated on him said Wednesday.


Ice Cold: Cooler Than Being Cool

Ice Cold: Cooler Than Being Cool

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Water expands when it freezes. Anyone who has ever left a can of soda or bottle of water in the freezer too long has witnessed this first hand. So how do plants and animals survive severe ...


New 'biofuel cell' produces electricity from hydrogen in plain air

Chemistry /

created Mar 26, 2007 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (29) | comments 0

A pioneering “biofuel cell” that produces electricity from ordinary air spiked with small amounts of hydrogen offers significant potential as an inexpensive and renewable alternative to the costly platinum-based fuel cells ...


Self-validating thermocouples based on metal-carbon eutectic fixed points

Self-validating thermocouples based on metal-carbon eutectic fixed points

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

When used at high temperatures (above 1100 °C) thermocouples are prone to substantial calibration drift. To gauge the extent of the drift, for example, in an industrial setting, it is highly desirable for ...


New molecules have wide applications

Carbenes: New molecules have wide applications

Chemistry / Materials Science

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

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have created in the laboratory a class of carbenes, highly reactive molecules, used to make catalysts - substances that facilitate chemical reactions. ...


Hollow spheres made of metal

Hollow spheres made of metal

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 5

Producing metallic hollow spheres is complicated: It has not yet been possible to make the small sizes required for new high-tech applications. Now for the first time researchers have manufactured ground hollow ...


Atomic Wire with Protective Sheath: Stable Metal Nanowires One Atom Wide Inside Carbon Nanotubes

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Wires with atomic dimensions are potential structural elements for future nanoscopic electronic components. Such fine wires have completely new electronic properties. However, apart from the non-trivial production ...


This photos shows rice growing from bio-engineered soil aimed at enhancing its productivity at a trade show in July 2009

Taiwan scientists identify flood-tolerant gene in rice

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 11, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A Taiwanese scientist has said her research team has found the gene that allows rice to grow under water and believes the breakthrough could help develop other flood-resistant crops.



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