Animals differ in the amount of fat they carry around depending on their species, status and sex. However, the causes of much of this variation have been a mystery. The Bristol study shows that many differences can be understood ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jan 20, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

Plant science is key to addressing the major challenges facing humanity in the 21st Century, according to Carnegie's David Ehrhardt and Wolf Frommer. In a Perspective published in The Plant Cell, the two researchers argue ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Mar 02, 2012 not rated yet 0

Researchers from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) Sustainable Bioenergy Centre (BSBEC) have discovered a family of genes that could help us breed grasses with improved properties for diet ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Jan 17, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

Tanzania is one developing country that could actually benefit from climate change by increasing exports of corn to the U.S. and other nations, according to a study by researchers at Stanford University, the World Bank and ...

Other Sciences - Economics & Business

Jul 27, 2012 not rated yet 2

Taking just a few seconds to cool freshly laid eggs would add weeks to their shelf life, according to a Purdue University study.

Biology - Other

Jun 11, 2012 not rated yet 0

A 28-year comparative study of wild emmer wheat and wild barley populations has revealed that these progenitors of cultivated wheat and barley, which are the best hope for crop improvement, have undergone changes over this ...

Biology - Ecology

Feb 23, 2012 not rated yet 0

New research into the impact of climate change on Chinese cereal crops has found rainfall has a greater impact than rising temperature. The research, published in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture found ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Apr 04, 2012 4 / 5 (1) 0

The cooking technique in which a dish with alcohol is set alight at the table may be dramatic, but does it enhance the flavor? It doesn't seem so, according to an undergraduate research project at Cornell.

Chemistry - Biochemistry

Jun 25, 2012 not rated yet 0

a substance that may have harmful health effects -- occurs in 94 percent of thermal cash register receipts, scientists are reporting. The recycling of those receipts, they add, is a source of BPA contamination ...

Chemistry - Other

Oct 26, 2011 not rated yet 0

Climate warming caused by greenhouse gases is very likely to increase the variability of summertime temperatures around the world by the end of this century, a University of Washington climate scientist said Friday. The findings ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Feb 17, 2012 3.7 / 5 (6) 1

University of Illinois scientists have found a way to boost current industry capabilities when it comes to reducing the number of E. coli 0157:H7 cells that may live undetected on spinach leaves.

Chemistry - Biochemistry

Nov 27, 2012 not rated yet 0

For plant-inhabiting predatory mites, living among familiar neighbors reduces stress. This allows individuals to focus on other tasks and be more productive, in particular while they are foraging. The new study by Markus ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 29, 2012 5 / 5 (3) 0

Rapid cooling of ordinary water or compression of ordinary ice: either of these can transform normal H2O into an exotic substance that resembles glass in its transparency, brittleness, hardness, and luster. Unlike everyday ...

Physics - Condensed Matter

Sep 26, 2011 not rated yet 1

Wolverines live in harsh conditions; they range over large areas of cold mountainous low-productivity habitat with persistent snow. The paper suggests wolverines take advantage of the crevices and boulders ...

Biology - Ecology

Jul 12, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0

(AP) -- One of the nation's most widely planted crops - a genetically engineered corn plant that makes its own insecticide - may be losing its effectiveness because a major pest appears to be developing resistance ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Dec 29, 2011 5 / 5 (4) 4