News tagged with tree trunks

Activision jumps into kids' game with 'Skylanders'

(AP) -- To impress kids these days, it's not enough to make another video game. Mere action figures won't do, either. So Activision is merging the two.

Technology / Software

created Oct 16, 2011 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Enzymes for cell wall synthesis conserved across species barriers

Plants have neither supportive bone tissue nor muscles, and yet they can form rigid structures like stalks and even tree trunks. This is due to the fact that plant cells are enveloped by a stable cell wall. The main component ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jul 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study reveals potential to amass more carbon in eastern North American forests

With climate change looming, the hunt for places that can soak up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is on.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 06, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (39) | comments 2




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Photovoltaic panels made from plant material could become a cheap alternative to traditional solar cells

Within a few years, people in remote villages in the developing world may be able to make their own solar panels, at low cost, using otherwise worthless agricultural waste as their raw material.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Mogees project delivers haptic symphony (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Creative sound-making is as fluid and changing as it implies, incorporating everything from troupes that bang on every hard surface imaginable to creators of electronic music, to musicians ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 4 | with audio podcast weblog

Trees influence epiphyte and invertebrate communities

Studies in temperate regions have demonstrated that genetic differences between individual trees affect the ecological communities and ecosystem processes associated with them. Now scientists at Manchester ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Leonardo da Vinci's tree rule may be explained by wind

(PhysOrg.com) -- More than 500 years ago, Leonardo da Vinci observed a particular relationship between the size of a tree’s trunk and the size of its branches. Specifically, the combined cross-sectional ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (24) | comments 16 | with audio podcast feature

The Bronze Age - now in 3D

(PhysOrg.com) -- The world will get its first glimpse of one of the most significant later Bronze Age sites ever recorded in Britain today, yielding a rare and extraordinarily detailed view of life 3,000 years ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Uncovering Da Vinci's rule of the trees

As trees shed their foliage this fall, they reveal a mysterious, nearly universal growth pattern first observed by Leonardo da Vinci 500 years ago: a simple yet startling relationship that always holds between ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 19 | with audio podcast

Planting depth's effect on container-grown trees

Many landscape trees are started in-ground, then sold as bare-root ''liners'' to producers who plant them in large containers to grow. To minimize wind damage and to facilitate transport from potting areas ...

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists find evidence of Roman period megadrought

A new study at the UA's Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research has revealed a previously unknown multi-decade drought period in the second century A.D. The findings give evidence that extended periods of aridity ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 04, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (11) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Why do woodpeckers resist head impact injury?

Head injury is a common concern around the world, but researchers suggest that woodpeckers may have an answer for minimizing such devastating injuries. As reported in the Oct. 26 issue of the online journal PLoS ONE, an ana ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers reveal baby-killer birds

(PhysOrg.com) -- The mysterious behaviour of female Eclectus parrots killing their sons immediately after they hatch has been unravelled by a team of researchers from the Australian National University.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 20, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast


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