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Lost water of the Napa Valley vineyards

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Getting the most out of every drop of water is a high priority for grape growers in the southern Napa Valley, where summers are hot and dry and vines have to be irrigated to make it through the growing season. But Stanford ...





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Scientists get to the root of ancient case of sour grapes

Scientists get to the root of ancient case of sour grapes

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Cambridge have discovered that a lowly grape variety grown by peasants - but despised by noblemen - during the Middle Ages was the mother of many of today’s greatest grape varieties, ...


Research project yields better understanding of the defective protein that causes cystic fibrosis

Research project yields better understanding of the defective protein that causes cystic fibrosis

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A team of researchers studying the protein that, when defective or absent, causes cystic fibrosis (CF) has made an important discovery about how that protein is normally controlled and under what circumstances ...


Exploring the Stone Age pantry

Exploring the Stone Age pantry

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

The consumption of wild cereals among prehistoric hunters and gatherers appears to be far more ancient than previously thought, according to a University of Calgary archaeologist who has found the oldest example ...


Christmas Tree

Scientists works to develop Christmas tree that doesn't shed needles

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

After chasing the perfect Christmas tree for three decades, Gary Chastagner could be getting close.


Shoppers with smart phones IQ squeezing retailers (AP)

Shoppers with smart phones IQ squeezing retailers

Technology / Hi Tech

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The rise of smart phones, with their go-anywhere Web access, is changing the shopping game this holiday season.


Cannabis and adolescence

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Canadian teenagers are among the largest consumers of cannabis worldwide. The damaging effects of this illicit drug on young brains are worse than originally thought, according to new research by Dr. Gabriella Gobbi, a psychiatric ...


Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Resumes Observations

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers are receiving new science data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter after the spacecraft's six science instruments resumed observations today.


First archaeological survey of Paphlagonia published

First archaeological survey of Paphlagonia published

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Project Paphlagonia is the first fully published multi-period archaeological and historical survey of the little explored region of north-central Turkey. Today this region includes the provinces ...


Obesity epidemic taking root in Africa

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The urban poor in sub-Saharan Africa are the latest victims of the obesity epidemic. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Public Health claim that overweight and obesity are on the increase among this group. ...



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