The Green Revolution of the late 20th century increased crop yields worldwide and helped feed an expanding global population. According to a new report published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, it ...
Environment
Jun 14, 2010
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A new study shows that humans and tiny aquatic animals known as rotifers have something important in common when it comes to sex.
Plants & Animals
Jun 14, 2010
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Children living in areas where homicides are committed have lower reading and verbal test scores, a study by New York University Sociology Professor Patrick Sharkey shows. The research, which appears in the latest issue of ...
Social Sciences
Jun 14, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., are running diverse trials with a test version of the radar system that will enable NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission to put the Curiosity ...
Space Exploration
Jun 14, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Rescuing oiled birds is the right thing to do because more of them survive and reproduce than previously thought, say UC Davis oiled wildlife experts in the first scientific review of all oiled-bird survival ...
Ecology
Jun 14, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Twenty-eight genes that are involved in bulking up yellow perch—an important aquaculture fish in the Great Lakes region—have been discovered by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and university ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 14, 2010
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A nation's economy plays a surprisingly large role in the success or failure of microfinance - the practice of making small loans to farmers or business owners too poor to provide collateral, according to a study led by a ...
Economics & Business
Jun 14, 2010
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Polychaete worms have populated the oceans for millions of years. Today they are the focus of study on cryptic species, which shows that apparently identical animals may be entirely different species. Researchers at the University ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 14, 2010
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Prion diseases are lethal neurodegenerative disorders that include Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE; commonly known as mad cow disease) in cows. A team of researchers, led ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 14, 2010
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The Guggenheim Museum is seeking to discover "the most creative video in the world" in a collaboration with YouTube.
Internet
Jun 14, 2010
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