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Ornamentals to Brighten the Fall Garden Palette

(PhysOrg.com) -- With “trick-or-treaters” coming soon, imagine two spirited new pepper varieties making an appearance in your neighborhood as well. The new pepper cultivars have been released by the Agricultural ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0




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Are distracted pedestrians a potential crosswalk hazard?

Next time you're about to cross a street, you might want to think twice about texting -- and definitely take those buds out of your ears. Music may be even more dangerous than texting, according to one researcher.

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Illinois pumpkin fields face cunning opponent

Wet conditions have Illinois pumpkin growers on the alert for signs of Phytophthora blight in their fields. This disease nearly destroyed the pumpkin industry in 1999, causing up to 100 percent crop losses ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jun 28, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

How plants fine tune their natural chemical defenses

Even closely related plants produce their own natural chemical cocktails, each set uniquely adapted to the individual plant's specific habitat. Comparing anti-fungals produced by tobacco and henbane, researchers at the Salk ...

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created Sep 07, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 0

FDA issues contaminated cheese warning

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a consumer warning and recall of possibly contaminated Grassy Meadows Dairy Co. cheeses.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 31, 2008 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

True Fakes: Scientists make simulated lunar soil

Life is tough for a humble grain of dirt on the surface of the Moon. It's peppered with cosmic rays, exposed to solar flares, and battered by micrometeorites--shattered, vaporized and re-condensed countless ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 03, 2007 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

NASA Performs Headcount of Local Black Holes

NASA scientists using the Swift satellite have conducted the first complete census of galaxies with active, central black holes, a project that scanned the entire sky several times over a nine-month period.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 06, 2006 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (21) | comments 0

Magnetic Moondust

Thirty-plus years ago on the moon, Apollo astronauts made an important discovery: Moondust can be a major nuisance. The fine powdery grit was everywhere and had a curious way of getting into things. Moondust ...

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created Apr 05, 2006 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (27) | comments 0


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