News tagged with mineral content
Geologists pinpoint near exact source of some of Stonehenge's stones
(PhysOrg.com) -- Robert Ixer and Richard Bevins, British geologists, after nine months of tedious research, have pinpointed the place from which some of the stones that make up Stonehenge were quarried. The ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 20, 2011 |
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Early Earth absorbed more sunlight -- no extreme greenhouse needed to keep water wet
Four billion years ago, our then stripling sun radiated only 70 to 75 percent as much energy as it does today. Other things on Earth being equal, with so little energy reaching the planet's surface, all water ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 06, 2010 |
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Open wide and say 'zap'
A group of researchers in Australia and Taiwan has developed a new way to analyze the health of human teeth using lasers. As described in the latest issue of Optics Express,, by measuring how the surface of a tooth respon ...
Aug 18, 2009 |
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Diet key to blood pressure
If you're like many Americans, your blood pressure has crept up as you've gotten older. But it doesn't have to. Our lifestyle has an impact on blood pressure; in fact, in parts of the world where people still live as their ...
Feb 06, 2009 |
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Increasing number of Americans have insufficient levels of vitamin D
Average blood levels of vitamin D appear to have decreased in the United States between 1994 and 2004, according to a report in the March 23 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.
Mar 23, 2009 |
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Tea leaves identified using neural networks
A team of chemists from the University of Seville (US, Spain) has managed to distinguish between different kinds of tea leaves on the basis of their mineral content and by using artificial neural networks. ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Sep 30, 2010 |
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Children who often drink full-fat milk weigh less
Eight-year-old children who drink full-fat milk every day have a lower BMI than those who seldom drink milk. This is not the case for children who often drink medium-fat or low-fat milk. This is one conclusion of a thesis ...
Nov 03, 2009 |
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High-risk prostate cancer associated with significantly lower bone mineral content loss
Men with prostate cancer lose significantly less bone mineral content (BMC) as they age than men who are free of the disease, according to research in the July issue of BJUI. The findings are important because loss of BMC ...
Jul 13, 2010 |
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Sticks and stones break bones, but new study may prevent it
The best way to prevent a fracture is to stop bones from reaching the point where they are prone to breaking, but understanding the process of how bones form and mature has been challenging. Now researchers at the University ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Dec 09, 2009 |
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USDA research demonstrates new breeds of broccoli remain packed with health benefits
Research performed by scientists at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and published recently in the journal Crop Science has demonstrated that mineral levels in new varieties of broccoli have not declined since 1975, ...
Oct 13, 2011 |
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Ultra-fine coatings on sediment grains influence nitrate and sulfate storage in soil
Tiny sediment grains are covered with a very fine-grained, complex mixture of minerals in an open fabric that results in a large surface area in contact with water between the grains. Scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey ...
Feb 23, 2009 |
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