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Frogs, Foam and Fuel: Researchers Convert Solar Energy to Sugars

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers from the University of Cincinnati devise a foam that captures energy and removes excess carbon dioxide from the air -- thanks to semi-tropical frogs.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 16, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Sweet corn study provides large-scale picture of better fields

In what amounted to a kind of census of sweet corn grown for processing, three years of data from 175 fields in Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota shed light on what works and what doesn't. Along with identifying the most ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 05, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A quarter of a century of sweet corn observations

For more than a quarter of a century, Jerald "Snook" Pataky's research in the University of Illinois Sweet Corn Hybrid Disease Nursery has been helping growers make important decisions to increase their profitability.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

First evidence that weed killers improve nutritional value of a key food crop

Scientists are reporting for the first time that the use of weed killers in farmers' fields boosts the nutritional value of an important food a crop. Application of two common herbicides to several varieties ...

Chemistry / Other

created Jul 08, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Viruses teach researchers how to protect corn from fungal infection

Smut fungi are agents of disease responsible for significant crop losses worldwide. Principal Investigator, Dr. Thomas Smith and Research Associate Member, Dr. Dilip Shah at The Donald Danforth Plant Science ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Mar 09, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0