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High-tech tools may help small grains breeders 'see' valuable plant traits faster

Two tools from industry are being applied to the small grains breeding program by a Texas AgriLife Research team to help identify valuable drought-resistance traits in wheat faster and less intrusively than ...

Biology / Other

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A super tiny giraffe (w/ Video)

Shaahin Amini was ready to quit. The Ph.D. student at the University of California, Riverside's Bourns College of Engineering had spent three hours looking into a microscope scanning a maze of black-and-white crosshatched ...

Other Sciences / Other

created May 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Chemical fingerprinting tracks the travels of little brown bats

They're tiny creatures with glossy, chocolate-brown hair, out-sized ears and wings. They gobble mosquitoes and other insect pests during the summer and hibernate in caves and mines when the weather turns cold. ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nasa receives widespread concepts for future Mars missions

NASA's call to scientists and engineers to help plan a new strategy to explore Mars has resulted in almost double the amount of expected submissions with unique and bold ideas.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 5

Newly modified nanoparticle opens window on future gene editing technologies

The scientific and technological literature is abuzz with nanotechnology and its manufacturing and medical applications. But it is in an area with a less glitzy aura—plant sciences—where nanotechnology ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Tracking endangered elephants with satellite technology

A hundred years ago wild elephants on the Malay Peninsular could be counted in their thousands — now there are less than 1500. Over the last century around 50 per cent of forest cover in Peninsular Malaysia ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Texting made possible for the illiterate

People incapable of reading and writing will have access to text messages from now on. A system using vocal synthesis, icons and contact management allows people to send and read text messages by those normally ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Commonly used pesticide turns honey bees into 'picky eaters'

Biologists at UC San Diego have discovered that a small dose of a commonly used crop pesticide turns honey bees into "picky eaters" and affects their ability to recruit their nestmates to otherwise good sources of food.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Creating action-inspiring tornado warnings

One year ago this week, 158 people died when a tornado with winds greater than 200 mph struck Joplin, Mo. Even though the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued tornado warnings and activated ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Extracting fuels and chemicals from plant life

Concerns over increasing global energy demand and the environmental impacts of fossil fuels are motivating the world’s researchers to try to develop alternative, renewable sources of energy.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created May 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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