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Research examines how plants produce high-energy storage organs
Mar 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Understanding how plants produce storage organs that humans use as food would be a valuable tool for science and for a hungry world.
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Beijing vehicles exceed four million: state media
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The number of registered vehicles in Beijing topped four million this week, state media reported, meaning a quarter of the 16 million permanent residents in China's capital have a car.
How the daisy got its spots... and why
Dec 18, 2009 |
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Dark spots on flower petals are common across many angiosperm plant families and occur on flowers such as some lilies, orchids, and daisies. Much research has been done on the physiological and behavioral ...
Scientists get to the root of ancient case of sour grapes
Dec 18, 2009 |
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(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, ...
How to Find Signs of Life on Mars
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 18, 2009 |
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By studying the signatures of fossil life on Earth, geobiologists can get a clue of what to look for when hunting for extraterrestrial life on Mars.
Research project yields better understanding of the defective protein that causes cystic fibrosis
Dec 18, 2009 |
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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 ...
IBM Reveals Five Innovations that Will Change Cities in the Next Five Years (w/ Video)
Dec 17, 2009 |
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Today, IBM unveiled a list of innovations that have the potential to change how people live, work and play in cities around the globe over the next five to ten years.
New research explains orchids' sexual trickery
Dec 17, 2009 |
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A new study reveals the reason why orchids use sexual trickery to lure insect pollinators. The study, published in the January issue of The American Naturalist, finds that sexual deception in orchids leads to a more effici ...
Within a cell, actin keeps things moving
Dec 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using new technology developed in his University of Oregon lab, chemist Andrew H. Marcus and his doctoral student Eric N. Senning have captured what they describe as well-orchestrated, actin-driven, ...
Researchers design a tool to induce controlled suicide in human cells
Dec 17, 2009 |
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When cells accumulate excessive errors in the proteins they produce, apoptosis is activated, that is to say, a cell suicide programme; however, beforehand the cells attempt to rectify the problem through a number of rescue ...
Fertilizer use not always helpful in revegetation efforts
Dec 17, 2009 |
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Companies and communities trying to restore vegetation on damaged northern landscapes should think twice about using fertilizer to stimulate growth according to new research published in the November issue of Arctic, Antarctic an ...
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