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Tracking nutrient pollutant in Chesapeake

Too much of a good thing can kill you, the saying goes.

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists core into California's Clear Lake to explore past climate change

(Phys.org) -- University of California, Berkeley, scientists are drilling into ancient sediments at the bottom of Northern California's Clear Lake for clues that could help them better predict how today's ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Rogue stars ejected from the galaxy are found in intergalactic space

It's very difficult to kick a star out of the galaxy.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 15 | with audio podcast

NASA's Chandra sees remarkable outburst from old black hole

An extraordinary outburst produced by a black hole in a nearby galaxy has provided direct evidence for a population of old, volatile stellar black holes. The discovery, made by astronomers using NASA's Chandra ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Environmental index could save rural communities

A new approach to environmental monitoring could avert ruin for some of the world's poorest communities.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Illuminating carbon's climate effects: Researchers demonstrate role of CO2 in deglaciatio

Harvard scientists are helping to paint the fullest picture yet of how a handful of factors, particularly a worldwide increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide, combined to end the last ice age 10,000-20,000 ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 16

Warning signs from ancient Greek tsunami

In the winter of 479 B.C., a tsunami was the savior of Potidaea, drowning hundreds of Persian invaders as they lay siege to the ancient Greek village. New geological evidence suggests that the region may still ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers solve scaling challenge for multi-core chips

Researchers sponsored by Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the world's leading university-research consortium for semiconductors and related technologies, today announced that they have identified a path to overcome ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Apr 16, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (14) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

New system makes hardware models of multicore chips more efficient, easier to design, more reliable

Most computer chips today have anywhere from four to 10 separate cores, or processing units, which can work in parallel, increasing the chips’ efficiency. But the chips of the future are likely to have ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Mud manifests history of clear water in murky Minnesota duck depot Lake Christina

During peak migration days in the early 1900s, tens of thousands of canvasback ducks could be seen floating and diving on Minnesota's Lake Christina. Since midcentury, changes to the lake have diminished this grand, iconic ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Taiwan's HTC unveils smartphone with powerful camera

Taiwan's HTC on Monday unveiled the smartphones that it said would allow users to "retire" their digital cameras, as it sought to fight back against rivals Apple and Samsung.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 2

Jupiter's melting heart sheds light on mysterious exoplanet

Scientists now have evidence that Jupiter's core has been dissolving, and the implications stretch far outside of our solar system.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (28) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Scientists use rare mineral to correlate past climate events in Europe, Antarctica

The first day of spring brought record high temperatures across the northern part of the United States, while much of the Southwest was digging out from a record-breaking spring snowstorm. The weather, it seems, has gone ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Mercury's surprising core and landscape curiosities

(PhysOrg.com) -- On March 17, the tiny MESSENGER spacecraft completed its primary mission to orbit and observe the planet Mercury for one Earth-year. The bounty of surprises from the mission has completely ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

New software-simulation system promises much more accurate evaluation of multicore-chip designs

For the last decade or so, computer chip manufacturers have been increasing the speed of their chips by giving them extra processing units, or “cores.” Most major manufacturers now offer chips with ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Eudicots

Eudicots and Eudicotyledons are botanical terms introduced by Doyle & Hotton (1991) to refer to a monophyletic group of flowering plants that had been called tricolpates or non-Magnoliid dicots by previous authors. The term means, literally, "true dicotyledons" as it contains the majority of plants that have been considered dicotyledons and have typical dicotyledonous characters. The term "eudicots" has been widely adopted to refer to one of the two largest clades of angiosperms (constituting over 70% of angiosperm species), monocots being the other. The remaining dicots are sometimes referred to as paleodicots but this term has not been widely adopted as it does not refer to a monophyletic group.

A large number of familiar plants are eudicots. A few are forget-me-not, cabbage, apple, dandelion, buttercup, maple and macadamia.

Another name for the eudicots is tricolpates, a name which refers to the structure of the pollen. The group has tricolpate pollen, or forms derived from it. These pollen have three or more pores set in furrows called colpi. In contrast, most of the other seed plants (that is the gymnosperms, the monocots and the paleodicots) produce monosulcate pollen, with a single pore set in a differently oriented groove called the sulcus. The name "tricolpates" is preferred by some botanists in order to avoid confusion with the dicots, a non-monophyletic group (Judd & Olmstead 2004).

The name eudicots (plural) is used in the APG system, of 1998, and APG II system, of 2003, for classification of angiosperms. It is applied to a clade, a monophyletic group, which includes most of the (former) dicotyledons.

For more information about Eudicots, read the full article at Wikipedia.
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