Rwanda formally opened a unique methane power plant Monday with hopes that it will one day provide 60 percent of the country's electricity, according to its operator.
Energy & Green Tech
May 16, 2016
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Using a genetic mapping technique developed at Florida State University, FSU and Cornell University researchers have shown that a small percentage of the entire maize genome is responsible for almost half of a plant's trait ...
Biotechnology
May 16, 2016
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Fish provide protein to billions of people and are an especially critical food source in the developing world. Today marine biologists confirmed a key factor that could help them thrive through the coming decades: biodiversity. ...
Ecology
May 16, 2016
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Youths who use social media are more likely to develop a "pick-and-choose" approach to customize their faith—regardless of what their religious tradition teaches—than those who do not use social media, according to a ...
Social Sciences
May 16, 2016
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On May 16, 2016, the bread loaf-sized Miniature X-Ray Solar Spectrometer, or MinXSS, CubeSat deployed from an airlock on the International Space Station to begin its journey into space. The NASA-funded MinXSS studies emissions ...
Space Exploration
May 16, 2016
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New advances in packaging at Michigan State University can help produce stay fresh longer.
Other
May 16, 2016
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In a time when million-dollar security breaches of major corporations regularly make headlines and complicate lives, computer science undergraduates at America's universities remain surprisingly underexposed to basic cybersecurity ...
Software
May 16, 2016
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Fuel cells, which generate electricity from chemical reactions without harmful emissions, have the potential to power everything from cars to portable electronics, and could be cleaner and more efficient than combustion engines.
Materials Science
May 16, 2016
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Research at the University of Illinois has shown that adding methionine to the diets of Holstein cows during the prepartum and postpartum periods may impact the preimplantation embryo in a way that enhances its capacity for ...
Other
May 16, 2016
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Most studies of the interactions between companies and consumers look at one piece of the puzzle: Advertising or social media or news coverage or "consumer sentiment" as measured in surveys. A new study from researchers at ...
Economics & Business
May 16, 2016
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