Archaeologists have made a discovery in southern subtropical China which could revolutionise thinking about how ancient humans lived in the region.

Biology - Biotechnology

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Harsh Bais and Janine Sherrier of the University of Delaware's Department of Plant and Soil Sciences are studying whether a naturally occurring soil bacterium, referred to as UD1023 because it was first characterized ...

Space & Earth - Environment

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The microbiome is your body's set of microbial communities; microbial cells outnumber human cells roughly ten to one. Through studying the microbiome, scientists are learning more the relationship between these microbes and ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

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A team of Virginia Tech researchers has succeeded in transforming cellulose into starch, a process that has the potential to provide a previously untapped nutrient source from plants not traditionally thought ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Apr 16, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 14 |

Have agriculture, technology, diet and lifestyle changes put humans out of touch with the way we evolved? And would we be healthier and happier if we lived, at least to some extent, the way our Paleolithic ancestors did?

Biology - Evolution

Mar 05, 2013 5 / 5 (4) 7

(HealthDay)—Humans and chimpanzees have much in common, biologically speaking, and that may now include certain communities—or ecosystems—of gut bacteria, a new study finds.

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Nov 13, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 1 |

(Phys.org)—Sorghum was originally a tropical plant, but U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists in Lubbock, Texas, are looking to Asia to increase sorghum's cold tolerance and expand its production ...

Biology - Biotechnology

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A fragment of a child's skull discovered at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania shows the oldest known evidence of anemia caused by a nutritional deficiency, reports a new paper published Oct. 3 in the open access journal ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Oct 03, 2012 3.9 / 5 (7) 3 |

Finding a more eco-friendly way to boost the amount of healthy fats in fish bred for human consumption is the main aim of a new Flinders University PhD project.

Chemistry - Biochemistry

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What do beer, dogs and cats, and corn all have in common? All of them are the end products of the process of domestication. Almost everybody knows that a number of different animals and plants have been bred ...

Biology - Biotechnology

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Janine Sherrier, professor in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences at the University of Delaware, is part of a team that has been awarded $6.8 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study ...

Biology - Biotechnology

May 10, 2012 1 / 5 (1) 0

(Phys.org) -- Can organic agriculture feed the world?

Biology - Other

Apr 25, 2012 4 / 5 (1) 1 |

University of Alberta researcher Nicole Burt took up an odd moonlighting job to further her research. She became a surrogate tooth fairy.

Chemistry - Other

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Many Christians give up certain foods for Lent, however ecologists have discovered these changes in human diet have a dramatic impact on the diet of wild animals. In Ethiopia, members of the Orthodox Tewahedo Church stop ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 04, 2012 4.5 / 5 (4) 0 |

Salt beef, sea biscuits and the occasional weevil; the food endured by sailors during the Napoleonic wars is seldom imagined to be appealing. Now a new chemical analysis technique has allowed archaeologists ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Mar 23, 2012 4 / 5 (8) 0 |