Air pollution is related to forest decline and also appears to attack the protecting wax on tree leaves and needles. Bonn University scientists have now discovered a responsible mechanism: particulate matter ...

Space & Earth - Environment

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Google pledged £1 million ($1.6 million, 1.2 million euros) on Wednesday to a British charity that monitors online child porn, just days after Prime Minister David Cameron demanded the Internet giant do ...

Technology - Internet

Jun 12, 2013 not rated yet 1

The demand for even faster, more effective, and also energy-saving computer clusters is growing in every sector. The new asynchronous programming model GPI from Fraunhofer ITWM might become a key building ...

Technology - Computer Sciences

Jun 10, 2013 4 / 5 (3) 0

Bioengineers at the University of California, San Diego have developed a computational model of 1,366 genes in E. coli that includes 3D protein structures and has enabled them to compute the temperature sensitivity of the ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

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(Phys.org) —A genomics technique developed at Cornell to improve corn can now be used to improve the quality of milk and meat, according to research published online May 17 in the journal PLOS ONE.

Biology - Biotechnology

May 22, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

New discoveries of the way plants transport important substances across their biological membranes to resist toxic metals and pests, increase salt and drought tolerance, control water loss and store sugar ...

Biology - Biotechnology

May 01, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 0 |

Many military radio frequency (RF) systems, like radar and communication systems, use a class of power amplifiers (PAs) called monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MIMIC). MMIC PAs using gallium nitride ...

Technology - Semiconductors

May 01, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

North America isn't known as a hotspot for crop plant diversity, yet a new inventory has uncovered nearly 4,600 wild relatives of crop plants in the United States, including close relatives of globally important ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Apr 29, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

South Dakota State University scientists must develop varieties of wheat that can tolerate drought, according to molecular biologist Jai Rohila, assistant professor of biology and microbiology. That is the ...

Biology - Biotechnology

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Work by biologists and marine scientists at various Norwegian research institutions over the past 10 years has covered such commercial resources as shrimp, scallops, herring and cod.

Biology - Ecology

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To design a low-cost unmanned aerial vehicle which helps to select the maize varieties which are best adapted to adverse environmental conditions is the main objective of an international project led by Josep ...

Technology - Engineering

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(Phys.org) —Research into a versatile class of material, the MAX phases, with a large variety of potential high-temperature and low-friction applications by Dr. Miladin Radovic, his group, and collaborators ...

Chemistry - Materials Science

Apr 01, 2013 4 / 5 (2) 0

People could learn a lot from vervet monkeys. When vervets need to work together, they don't tell each other what to do or punish uncooperative behavior. But according to evidence reported on March 28 in ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 28, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

Scientists have decoded the genome of the western painted turtle (Chrysemys picta bellii) , one of the most abundant turtles on Earth, finding clues to their longevity and ability to survive without oxygen ...

Biology - Biotechnology

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In the movie Alien, the title character is an extraterrestrial creature that can survive brutal heat and resist the effects of toxins.

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

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