If you have weed problems in your cropping system, will adding nutrients just feed the weeds?

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jun 23, 2009 not rated yet 0

In an effort to achieve energy-aware computing, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH), and IBM today announced plans to build a first-of-a-kind water-cooled supercomputer that will directly ...

Electronics - Hardware

Jun 23, 2009 4.8 / 5 (5) 1

A new study by a team of researchers led by Jessica Hellmann, assistant professor of biological sciences at the University of Notre Dame, offers interesting insights into how species may, or may not, change their geographic ...

Biology - Ecology

Jun 23, 2009 4.3 / 5 (16) 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM scientists in collaboration with the University of Regensburg, Germany, and Utrecht University, Netherlands, for the first time demonstrated the ability to measure the charge state of ...

Nanotechnology - Nanophysics

Jun 23, 2009 4.2 / 5 (6) 0

(AP) -- Verizon is boosting speeds on its FiOS service. And it's throwing in a high-definition Flip video camera or Hewlett-Packard computer to get you to join.

Technology - Telecom

Jun 23, 2009 not rated yet 0

Prairie dogs may seem like harmless little creatures, but they can inflict serious injury on plants simply by snacking on them. Plants cannot flee from their furry predators, so how do they avoid becoming ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jun 23, 2009 2 / 5 (1) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- For at least 50 years, television advertisements have been ordered randomly within commercial breaks. But given the spread of digital video recorders (DVR) that allow users to blip-blip past the ads in fast-forward, ...

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

Jun 23, 2009 2 / 5 (1) 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research presented by Bernard Casey of the University of Warwick’s Institute for Employment Research shows that work-related stress today damages national output even more than the loss to national output ...

Other Sciences - Other

Jun 23, 2009 5 / 5 (2) 0

In reviewing the weight history of pancreatic cancer patients across their life spans, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have determined that a high body mass index in early adulthood may ...

Medicine & Health - Cancer

Jun 23, 2009 3 / 5 (1) 0

European policy makers must collaborate more closely in the fight against global warming, according to a leading expert who compiled the most detailed ever record of greenhouse gas emissions across the continent.

Space & Earth - Environment

Jun 23, 2009 2 / 5 (13) 4

Teenagers and young adults can get ahead of the social curve with the latest AT&T quick messaging and social networking phone from Motorola. AT&T and Motorola, Inc. today announced Motorola Karma QA1, a curvy ...

Electronics - Consumer & Gadgets

Jun 23, 2009 5 / 5 (1) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists trying to understand how the brains of animals evolve have found that evolutionary changes in brain structure reflect the types of social interactions and environmental stimuli ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jun 23, 2009 not rated yet 0

Are you a "morning person" or a "night owl?"

Medicine & Health - Neuroscience

Jun 23, 2009 4.5 / 5 (8) 0

Later this week, researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology will equip the sloop Clearwater with instrumentation that will provide real-time transmission of position, time, surface water temperature, salinity, and dissolved ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Jun 23, 2009 not rated yet 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers led by Amy G. Hise, M.D., M.P.H., assistant professor at the Center for Global Health and Diseases at Case Western Reserve University's School of Medicine, has discovered how the body ...

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Jun 23, 2009 4.5 / 5 (2) 0