Study a step toward disease-resistant crops, sustainability
A five-year study that could help increase disease resistance, stress tolerance and plant yields is under way at Purdue University.
Nov 12, 2008
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Mini Nuclear Power Plants Could Power 20,000 Homes (Update)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Underground nuclear power plants no bigger than a hot tub may soon provide electricity for communities around the world. Measuring about 1.5 meters across, the mini reactors can each power about 20,000 homes. ...
Extreme makeover: computer science edition
(PhysOrg.com) -- Suppose you have a cherished home video, taken at your birthday party. You're fond of the video, but your viewing experience is marred by one small, troubling detail. There in the video, framed and hanging ...
Computer Sciences
Nov 12, 2008
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Colonies in collapse: What's causing massive honeybee die-offs?
“To the bee, a flower is a fountain of life, and to the flower, a bee is a messenger of love,” wrote poet Kahlil Gibran. Whether or not love is involved in the exchange, the evolutionary dance between pollen-transporting ...
Nov 12, 2008
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Cassini Finds Mysterious New Aurora on Saturn
(PhysOrg.com) -- Saturn has its own unique brand of aurora that lights up the polar cap, unlike any other planetary aurora known in our solar system. This odd aurora revealed itself to one of the infrared instruments on NASA's ...
Space Exploration
Nov 12, 2008
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Researchers find link between seeing and thinking
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at UQ's Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) have discovered an important new link between how we see an action – and the way our mind processes that visual stimulation.
Nov 12, 2008
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Quality, quantity lacking in children's educational TV, study says
Commercial broadcasters are doing the "bare minimum and not much more" for children's educational programming, according to University of Illinois communication professor Barbara Wilson, one of two lead researchers on a study ...
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Nov 12, 2008
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Friendly Bacteria Help with Healthy Soy Diet, Researcher Discovers
(PhysOrg.com) -- Soy is a staple of the Asian diet. Here in America, soy is considered a healthy addition to a diet, but sometimes it is not so easy on the stomach. Now, a University of Missouri researcher believes she has ...
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Nov 12, 2008
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Barnacles prove hard to please when house-hunting
(PhysOrg.com) -- It’s a tough life out at sea so you might think a small crustacean would be happy to take what it can get when it comes to finding a home - not the humble barnacle.
Nov 12, 2008
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Singing in slow motion
(PhysOrg.com) -- As anyone who watched the Olympics can appreciate, timing matters when it comes to complex sequential actions. It can make a difference between a perfect handspring and a fall, for instance. But what controls ...
Nov 12, 2008
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