News tagged with root vegetables

Scientists unveil chocolate-fueled race car

(AP) -- Scientists unveiled on Tuesday what they hope will be one of the world's fastest biofuel vehicles, powered by waste from chocolate factories and made partly from plant fibers.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 05, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (10) | comments 3

German researchers testing veggie Viagra: reports

German researchers are testing an impotency treatment for men made using only natural ingredients that in some cases works better than Viagra, newspapers reported Monday.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0




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Trees find the nitrogen they need, even in a super-size CO2 world

In the fast-food world of trees, let’s say carbon dioxide is like French fries, and nitrogen is like catsup. Suppose those trees suddenly had extra servings of French fries, but the catsup ration stayed ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Our Amorphophallus is smaller: New plant species from Madagascar smells like roadkill

The famed "corpse flower" plant – known for its giant size, rotten-meat odor and phallic shape – has a new, smaller relative: A University of Utah botanist discovered a new species of Amorphophallus that i ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers uncover a mechanism to explain dune field patterns

In a study of the harsh but beautiful White Sands National Monument in New Mexico, University of Pennsylvania researchers have uncovered a unifying mechanism to explain dune patterns. The new work represents a contribution ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Green potential of our industrial past

Manipulating the soil in urban and industrial areas in order to capture more carbon from the atmosphere is the “best resource we have to begin to mitigate human CO2 emissions”, experts claim.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New study may answer questions about enigmatic Little Ice Age

A new University of Colorado Boulder-led study appears to answer contentious questions about the onset and cause of Earth's Little Ice Age, a period of cooling temperatures that began after the Middle Ages ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Secret sex life to help save world's endangered seagrasses

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sex plays a much more important role in the reproduction of vitally important seagrasses than previously thought, according to important new findings by researchers from The University of ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Hydrogels help grasses grow on remote, arid rangelands

(PhysOrg.com) -- The arid conditions in the southwestern United States make restoring degraded rangelands extremely difficult, but a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientist has found a way to help ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Honeybee deaths linked to seed insecticide exposure

Honeybee populations have been in serious decline for years, and Purdue University scientists may have identified one of the factors that cause bee deaths around agricultural fields.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (18) | comments 25 | with audio podcast

Alaskan lake bed cores show expanding Arctic shrubs may slow erosion

The relationship between permafrost, Arctic vegetation, soil erosion, and changing air temperatures is complicated at best. For instance, rising temperatures melt surface permafrost layers and increase shrub growth. These ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Enticing words on bags of potato chips have a lot to say about social class, researchers find

(PhysOrg.com) -- Like politicians who adopt regional accents to appeal to local audiences, the manufacturers of potato chips vary the wording on their bags to convey their products' authenticity in different ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 5 | with audio podcast


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