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Hunting for bomb-eating bugs

University of Arizona researchers are studying the environmental effects of insensitive munitions compounds, or IMCs, which are new, more stable explosives that won't detonate in response to heat or shock.

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Fertilizer use responsible for increase in nitrous oxide in atmosphere

University of California, Berkeley, chemists have found a smoking gun proving that increased fertilizer use over the past 50 years is responsible for a dramatic rise in atmospheric nitrous oxide, which is a major greenhouse ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (9) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Plant enzymes reveal complex secrets

The enzymes needed for producing and chemically modifying functionally important plant molecules called anthocyanins have been identified by a research team led by Kazuki Saito of the RIKEN Plant Science Center, ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sustainability threatened by rising demand for livestock products

Global demand for meat, milk and eggs has tripled in the past four decades and is expected to double by 2050. Increased global livestock production has great impacts on the environment and increases global warming. A major ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Giving thanks: Rutgers works to build a better cranberry

(PhysOrg.com) -- Building better cranberries is Nicholi Vorsa’s business, a process that can’t be rushed. 

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'Low tech' light in neutron beam illuminates photosynthesis in bacteria

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Bio-SANS instrument at the High Flux Isotope Reactor are getting a leg up in their research from an ingenious "low tech" lighting tool that can be fixed to their samples ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Sep 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

The hidden power of moss

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Cambridge University are exhibiting a prototype table that demonstrates how biological fuel cells can harness energy from plants.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Has warming put 'Dirty Dozen' pollutants back in the saddle?

"Dirty Dozen" chemicals, including the notoriously toxic DDT, are being freed from Arctic sea ice and snow through global warming, a study published on Sunday suggested.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 24, 2011 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (11) | comments 19

Iowa State hybrid lab combines technologies to make biorenewable fuels and products

Laura Jarboe pointed to a collection of test tubes in her Iowa State University laboratory.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jun 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Biofuels without competing claims in Mozambique

It might not seem the most obvious option to generate energy using biomass in Mozambique, where agriculture barely manages to feed the population. But Wageningen UR researchers concluded the contrary: Small bioreactors can ...

Biology / Other

created Apr 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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