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Blue bananas: Ripening bananas glow an intense blue under black light
Oct 17, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Ripe bananas are of course yellow. However, under black light, the yellow bananas are bright blue, as discovered by scientists at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) and Columbia University ...
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Deja vu: Wal-Mart, Amazon, Target in DVD price war
Nov 06, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is upping the ante heading into the holiday season, trimming the online preorder prices of some upcoming DVDs following last month's price cut on books.
GSU professor develops new method to help keep fruit, vegetables and flowers fresh
Oct 20, 2009 |
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Did you know that millions of tons of fruits and vegetables in the United States end up in the trash can before being eaten, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture? A Georgia State University professor has developed ...
New affordable nutrition index is first measurement tool to evaluate affordable nutrition
Oct 19, 2009 |
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A new food rating system that analyzes both nutrition and cost value of food may now make it easier for people to find budget-friendly, nutritious foods in today’s tough economy. The Affordable Nutrition Index (ANI), unveiled ...
Fruit fly pest identified in wine grapes
Oct 15, 2009 |
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A newly recognized pest in Oregon continues to concern fruit growers and researchers with the recent discovery of a Spotted Wing Drosophila fly in a sample of Willamette Valley wine grapes.
What spooks the stock market in October?
Oct 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- October ushers in the fourth quarter, falling leaves, football and in some, now infamous, years, financial meltdowns. Is the tenth month of the year more prone to stock market crashes than others? Economics ...
Novel Chemistry for Ethylene and Tin
Sep 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New work by chemists at UC Davis shows that ethylene, a gas that is important both as a hormone that controls fruit ripening and as a raw material in industrial chemistry, can bind reversibly to tin atoms. ...
Bananas Gone Bad Glow Blue in UV-Light
Sep 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Nicholas Turro of Columbia University, Bernhard Krautler of the University of Innsbruck, Austria and their colleagues have found that, as chlorophyll ages and begins to disintegrate in banana ...
Genomics sciences guarantees better results in the art of winemaking
Sep 09, 2009 |
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While the art of fine winemaking is a beautiful thing, winemakers are increasingly turning to the power of science to give them the tools they need to ensure a high quality pour each and every time.
Shopping around key to a smaller food bill
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Sep 08, 2009 |
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Shoppers face a complex and time-consuming task to get the best deal, depending on the store they buy food from and the item involved according to a new booklet "Public behavior in the UK in times of economic decline/rising ...
Discovery of natural odors could help develop mosquito repellents (w/ Video)
Aug 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Entomologists at the University of California, Riverside working on fruit flies in the lab have discovered a novel class of compounds that could pave the way for developing inexpensive and ...
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