Stronger corn? Take it off steroids, make it all female
A Purdue University researcher has taken corn off steroids and found that the results might lead to improvements in that and other crops.
Nov 30, 2011
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Project seeks to harvest fog for irrigation
Fog has been billowing inside a small greenhouse on the University of Washington campus for the past month, but it doesn't arrive on little cat feet. It comes hissing out of high-pressure nozzles.
Mar 25, 2013
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In a new book, an MIT urban planner rethinks the mundane, ubiquitous parking lot
Quick: Name a great parking lot.
Mar 13, 2012
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Study tracks relationship between storms, cities
(Phys.org)—On the Great Plains, storm clouds are visible from quite a distance. And, sometimes, those storms seem to veer off course for no apparent reason. A group of scientists is studying weather patterns to determine ...
Aug 23, 2012
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Probing question: Can games be more than child's play?
Remember backyard games of Red Rover, Mother May I, and Red Light Green Light? How about playing Monopoly or Chutes and Ladders? Games like these figure into the pleasant childhood memories of many, but can ...
Oct 23, 2012
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ISU study uses iPhone GPS tools to assist 12 Iowa towns with their Safe Routes to School programs
An Iowa State University-Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) study uses high-tech devices to encourage low-tech solutions to escalating childhood obesity rates in Iowa. This month the researchers are providing ...
Aug 16, 2011
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GigaBlitz event seeks citizen scientists to capture images of nearby biodiversity
From a bike path in Montana to a backwater underneath a highway overpass in Austria, citizen scientists fanned out last June to capture high-resolution images for the first Nearby Nature GigaBlitz. Organizers are hoping for ...
Nov 10, 2011
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Using plants to purify canal water
Just south of Rome lie the Pontine Marshes, a vexed part of the Italian countryside. In ancient times, Roman emperors tried unsuccessfully to drain the marshes, something only achieved in the 1930s through a system of massive ...
Apr 07, 2010
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Landscape architecture survey: Is plant knowledge passe?
Willow cut-stem growers surveyed
Rising seas, raising hopes
(PhysOrg.com) -- By the end of this century, sea levels in the Netherlands may rise more than 4 feet, a troubling prospect in a country where 70 percent of GNP is produced in protected areas that are below ...
May 05, 2010
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Urban areas offer hidden biodiversity
