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Food security: It starts with seed

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 04, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

With each passing year, the human population of our planet continues to expand. This growth has created a wide ranging strain on our water and soil resources, as well as our environment, creating an unprecedented urgency ...





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Green tea chemical combined with another may hold promise for treatment of brain disorders

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created 15 hours ago | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Scientists at Boston Biomedical Research Institute (BBRI) and the University of Pennsylvania have found that combining two chemicals, one of which is the green tea component EGCG, can prevent and destroy a variety of protein ...


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Flight of fancy: MIT autonomous mini-helicopter solves one tough challenge

Technology / Engineering

created 15 hours ago | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 1

In its first 18 years, the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International’s annual aerial-robotics competition posed four successive challenges, which robotics researchers had to meet using entirely ...


Why females live longer than males: is it due to the father's sperm?

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 12

Researchers in Japan have found that female mice produced by using genetic material from two mothers but no father live significantly longer than mice with the normal mix of maternal and paternal genes. Their findings provide ...


Air Force Center of Excellence awarded in nanostructures and improved cognition

Air Force Center of Excellence awarded in nanostructures and improved cognition

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The Georgia Institute of Technology has been awarded a U.S. Air Force Center of Excellence to design nanostructures for energy harvesting and adaptive materials, and to develop tools to optimize critical cognitive ...


Blushing dusty nebula

Blushing dusty nebula

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

On Earth, we tend to find dust nothing more than a nuisance that blankets our furniture and causes us to sneeze. Cosmic dust can also be a hindrance to astronomers because cameras using visible light cannot ...


A modernized methodology for obtaining new varieties of potato

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Research into the potato tuber at the Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development and at the NEIKER-Tecnalia Technology Centre has, in recent years, focused on the development of new varieties of potato adapted ...


How did flowering plants evolve to dominate Earth?

Biology / Evolution

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 1

To Charles Darwin it was an 'abominable mystery' and it is a question which has continued to vex evolutionists to this day: when did flowering plants evolve and how did they come to dominate plant life on earth? Today a study ...


 Chang'E-1 has blazed a new trail in China's deep space exploration

Chang'E-1 has blazed a new trail in China's deep space exploration

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A huge amount of scientific data have been accumulated by the CE-1 lunar orbiter. Using laser altimeter data, Jinsong Ping and Qian Huang et al obtained improved 3D lunar topography, and based on this, they ...


Study Examines Racial 'Blind Spots' in Chicago Area Communities

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Racial residential segregation in the Chicago area may be perpetuated by a lack of knowledge of communities across racial lines, according to a new study led by a University of Illinois at Chicago researcher.


Making sense of greenhouse gas accounting

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 3

Waste management is increasingly gaining the recognition that it deserves as a major contributor to mitigating climate change. But with at least four different methods of accounting for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions currently ...



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