News tagged with maple
Spiraling Flight of Maple Tree Seeds Inspires New Surveillance Technology (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Maple tree seeds (or samara fruit) and the spiraling pattern in which they glide to the ground have delighted children for ages and perplexed engineers for decades. Now aerospace engineering ...
Oct 20, 2009 |
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Transplanted Liver Cells Hold Hope for Treating Inherited Diseases
(PhysOrg.com) -- Mike Gibson, chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at Michigan Technological University, has spent most of his professional life trying to better understand genetic metabolic disorders ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 09, 2009 |
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Electrical circuit runs entirely off power in trees
You've heard about flower power. What about tree power? It turns out that it's there, in small but measurable quantities. There's enough power in trees for University of Washington researchers to run an electronic ...
Sep 08, 2009 |
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Organic weed control for dandelions
Spring and summer often find homeowners out in their yards, busily attempting to control the onslaught of dandelions in a quest for green, weed-free lawns. Dandelions, broadleaf perennial plants that have a questionable reputation ...
Sep 08, 2009 |
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Innovative spout will increase maple production up to 90 percent
An innovative new maple spout developed by the University of Vermont's Proctor Maple Research Center with funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture secured by Senator Patrick J. Leahy, will have a dramatic ...
Aug 18, 2009 |
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Maple seeds and animals exploit the same trick to fly (w/Video)
The twirling seeds of maple trees spin like miniature helicopters as they fall to the ground. Because the seeds descend slowly as they swirl, they can be carried aloft by the wind and dispersed over great ...
Jun 11, 2009 |
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Forestry officials on urgent mission: Beetles
(AP) -- Forestry officials in the Northeast are on an urgent mission, tracking thousands of Massachusetts residents as they search for tree-eating stowaway insects they may have carried to campgrounds or ...
May 22, 2009 |
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Tree species composition influences nitrogen loss from forests
Throughout the world, nitrogen compounds are released to the atmosphere from agricultural activities and combustion of fossil fuels. These pollutants are deposited to ecosystems as precipitation, gases, and particles, sometimes ...
Mar 16, 2009 |
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