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Experiment demonstrates 110 years of sustainable agriculture

Biology /

created Sep 29, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (19) | comments 1

A plot of land on the campus of Auburn University shows that 110 years of sustainable farming practices can produce similar cotton crops to those using other methods.





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Checklist for going solar

Technology / Energy

created 2 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

With the sun setting before 5 p.m., solar power may be the last thing on your mind these days. But declining panel prices ans a federal tax credit make now a good time to at least investigate whether solar power might make ...


Crew plans to cut rope to free Hawaii whale (AP)

Crew plans to cut rope to free Hawaii whale

Biology / Plants & Animals

created 7 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Marine sanctuary officials planned to return to Hawaii waters with modified equipment Friday to try to cut loose a young humpback whale entangled in several hundred yards of heavy plastic rope.


STAR TRAK for December: Geminid meteors flash in December skies

STAR TRAK for December: Geminid meteors flash in December skies

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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(PhysOrg.com) -- The annual Geminid meteor shower, which will reach its maximum on the night of Dec. 13-14, usually offers the best show of the year, outperforming even the Perseid shower of August. This year ...


Turning genetic trash to treasure

Turning genetic trash to treasure

Medicine & Health / Research

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(PhysOrg.com) -- John Rinn, a researcher at Harvard Medical School, the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and the Broad Institute, overcame a rocky start in life through a passion for biology and discovered ...


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By feeding the birds, you could change their evolutionary fate

Biology / Plants & Animals

created 22 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 6

Feeding birds in winter is a most innocent human activity, but it can nonetheless have profound effects on the evolutionary future of a species, and those changes can be seen in the very near term. That's ...


ARS Explores Ways to Keep Carbon in the Soil

ARS Explores Ways to Keep Carbon in the Soil

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are testing out alternative ways of tilling the soil and rotating crops to see if they can help wheat farmers in Oregon sequester more carbon ...


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

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (13) | comments 2

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 ...


Sweden's wolf population is estimated to be between 182 and 217 animals

Sweden allows first wolf hunt in 45 years

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Sweden will this winter allow its first wolf hunt in 45 years following a decision by the Scandinavian country's parliament to limit their number, authorities said on Wednesday.


Male and female shopping strategies show evolution at work in the mall

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (12) | comments 2

Male and female shopping styles are in our genes---and we can look to evolution for the reason. Daniel Kruger, research faculty at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, says it's perfectly natural that men often ...


New stem cell lines approved for tax-paid research

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Scientists can start using taxpayer dollars to do research with 13 batches of embryonic stem cells and the government says dozens more cell lines should be available soon, opening a new era for the potentially life-saving ...



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