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'Poop to power' program turns pig manure into sustainable energy

The nearly 9,000 hogs at Loyd Ray Farms in Yadkin County, N.C., produce 400,000 gallons of manure every week. Since the waste had too high a nitrogen content to be used as fertilizer, owner Loyd Bryant used to pump that waste ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (13) | comments 3

Herbivorous fish like eating meat

The grass carp, thought to be a strict vegetarian, seems to have a preference for amphipoda. NWO researcher Liesbeth Bakker made this discovery during her research into the food preferences of fish. The discovery ...

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Russians hope to reach Lake Vostok for the first time soon

(PhysOrg.com) -- Lake Vostok, an untouched lake in Antarctica, is soon to be reached for the first time. Russian scientists are drilling down to the oxygen-rich lake, which is buried beneath a sheet of ice ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 10, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (17) | comments 17 | with audio podcast report

Biodiesel on the wing: A 'green' process for biodiesel from feather meal

Scientists in Nevada are reporting development of a new and environmentally friendly process for producing biodiesel fuel from "chicken feather meal," made from the 11 billion pounds of poultry industry waste ...

Chemistry / Other

created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1




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New point for dew point

Peter Huang of the Sensor Science Division’s Temperature and Humidity group has devised a new humidity generator that enables dew-point measurements up to 98 °C – a substantial extension above ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Research finds autumn advantage for invasive plants in Eastern United States

Much like the fabled tortoise and the hare, the competition between native and invasive plants growing in deciduous forests in the Eastern United States is all about how the plants cross the finish line in autumn.

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Magnetic cloak: Physicists create device invisible to magnetic fields

Autonomous University of Barcelona researchers, in collaboration with an experimental group from the Academy of Sciences of Slovakia, have created a cylinder which hides contents and makes them invisible to ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Meteorites reveal another way to make life's components

(PhysOrg.com) -- Creating some of life's building blocks in space may be a bit like making a sandwich – you can make them cold or hot, according to new NASA research. This evidence that there is more ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

A new way to visualize Earth

As the state geologist for Arizona, Lee Allison knows granite from sandstone, a syncline from an anticline. But he has lacked the ability to look through rocks to visualize the inner workings of the Earth.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 17, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Grass pea 'silver bullet' for drought and waterlogging

Research into the first ever Australian-bred and released grass pea variety has revealed its ability to enhance nitrogen (N) and Potassium (P) uptake in wheat crops.

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Fuel from market waste

Mushy tomatoes, brown bananas and overripe cherries -- to date, waste from wholesale markets has ended up on the compost heap at best. In future it will be put to better use: Researchers have developed a new ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Cutting-edge cocktails light up New York

You're not allowed to light a cigarette in New York bars, but there's nothing to stop a bartender from setting your cocktail on fire with a 815 degrees Celsius (1,500 degrees Fahrenheit) poker.

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Chemicals and biofuel from wood biomass

(PhysOrg.com) -- A method developed at Aalto University in Finland makes it possible to use microbes to produce butanol suitable for biofuel and other industrial chemicals from wood biomass. Butanol is particularly ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers assess effects of a world awash in nitrogen

Humans are having an effect on Earth's ecosystems but it's not just the depletion of resources and the warming of the planet we are causing. Now you can add an over-abundance of nitrogen as another "footprint" humans are ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 6 | with audio podcast


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