News tagged with grains
An apple a day keeps kidney stones away
Researchers have found another reason to eat well: a healthy diet helps prevent kidney stones. Loading up on fruits, vegetables, nuts, low-fat dairy products, and whole grains, while limiting salt, red and processed meats, ...
Aug 13, 2009 |
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See no weevil: Researcher tracks rice bugs to help farmers, consumers (w/ Podcast)
When there's something bugging rice farmers, a large segment of the world's population is likely to find out.
Aug 12, 2009 |
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Ancient Humans Left Evidence from the Party that Ended 4,000 Years Ago
(PhysOrg.com) -- The party was over more than 4,000 years ago, but the remnants still remain in the gourds and squashes that served as dishware. For the first time, University of Missouri researchers have ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 21, 2009 |
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Corn yield stability varies with rotations, fertility
Understanding temporal variability in crop yields has implications for sustainable crop production, particularly since greater fluxes in crop yields are projected with global climate change.
Jul 21, 2009 |
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DNA of ancient lost barley could help modern crops cope with water stress
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Warwick have recovered significant DNA information from a lost form of ancient barley that triumphed for over 3000 years seeing off: 5 changes in civilisation, ...
Jul 21, 2009 |
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Creating Denser Magnetic Memory
(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the issues afflicting magnetic memory is the fact that it is difficult to store information for as long as 10 years. In order to overcome this problem, scientists and engineers have been looking for ...
Jul 07, 2009 |
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Seaway's 50th anniversary soiled by invasive species
Fifty years ago Friday, President Dwight Eisenhower and Britain's Queen Elizabeth II walked down a red carpet, climbed aboard a "floating palace" of a yacht named Britannia and ceremoniously sailed through the St. Lambert ...
Jun 26, 2009 |
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Study describes evidence of world's oldest known granaries
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study coauthored by Ian Kuijt, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Notre Dame, describes recent excavations in Jordan that reveal evidence of the world's oldest ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 22, 2009 |
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Researchers discovers how strain at grain boundaries suppresses high-temperature superconductivity
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have discovered that a reduction in mechanical strain at the boundaries of crystal grains can significantly improve the performance ...
Jun 17, 2009 |
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NIST finds 'a touch of glass' in metal, settles century-old question
Better predictions of how many valuable materials behave under stress could be on the way from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where scientists have recently found evidence of an ...
Jun 17, 2009 |
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Medvedev slams biofuel producers at grain summit
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Saturday urged countries to switch to non-food sources of biofuel to prevent the spread of hunger in a world where every sixth person is malnourished.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jun 06, 2009 |
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Study says confusion reigns over whole-grain claims in school lunches
While most nutrition experts agree that school lunches should include more whole-grain products, a new study from the University of Minnesota finds that food-service workers lack understanding and the resources to meet that ...
Jun 02, 2009 |
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Golden rice an effective source of vitamin A
The beta-carotene in so-called "Golden Rice" converts to vitamin A in humans, according to researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and Tufts University in an article that appears in the current issue of the American Jo ...
May 13, 2009 |
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A genome may reduce your carbon footprint
With the costs of genome sequencing rapidly decreasing, and with the infrastructure now developed for almost anyone with access to a computer to cheaply store, access, and analyze sequence information, emphasis is increasingly ...
May 12, 2009 |
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Sex life of plants reveals conflicts between the sexes
The pollen grains of male plants live in great competition. A grain of pollen that succeeds in manipulating the flower’s pistil can emerge victorious from the struggle. This is shown by new research from Lund University in ...
May 08, 2009 |
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