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Agricultural & Forestry Science

Winter-Hardy Hibiscus: Innovations from AgriLife Research

And it is that passion that has created his latest research project – propagating unique winter-hardy hibiscus. Malinowski said he's very much a grass and…

Health & Medicine

Study Reveals How Marijuana Ingredients May Amplify Pain

Imagine that you're working on your back porch, hammering in a nail. Suddenly you slip and hit your thumb instead — hard. The pain is incredibly intense, but…

Environmental Conservation

Increased Ocean Acidification Discovered in Alaska Waters

This spring, chemical oceanographer Jeremy Mathis returned from a cruise armed with seawater samples collected from the depths of the Gulf of Alaska. When he…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Higher Pathogen Loads Found in Collapsed Honeybee Colonies

The researchers, who represented Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, University of Liege, Gembloux Agricultural University, North Carolina State…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Mango Seeds: A Natural Solution Against Food Bacteria

Christina Engels has found a way to turn the throwaway kernels in mangos into a natural food preservative that could help prevent Listeriosis outbreaks like…

Environmental Conservation

Shark Survey Reveals Species Diversity off U.S. East Coast

Sandbar, dusky and tiger sharks are among dozens of shark species living in the coastal waters off the U.S. East Coast. Little is known about many of the…

Life & Chemistry

Protein’s New Role: Safeguarding Chromosome Tips Uncovered

A protein specialist that opens the genomic door for DNA repair and gene expression also turns out to be a multi-tasking workhorse that protects the tips of…

Studies and Analyses

Preserving Cocoa Flavanols: Insights from New Study

The scientists initially saw that 50 to 95% of the flavanols were lost in making chocolate cakes. After further investigation, they found that the use of…

Life & Chemistry

Global Flea Monitoring Confirms Imidacloprid’s Ongoing Effectiveness

The data show that fleas collected from around the globe continue to be as highly susceptible to imidacloprid today as they were when the monitoring commenced….

Earth Sciences

GOES-11 Captures Tropical Cyclone Activity in Eastern Pacific

The graphics folks that create images from the satellite at the GOES Project at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. are posting updated images…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Discover Gene Behind Water Strider Gliding Ability

This was not always the case. Achieving the gliding ability required the evolution of a unique arrangement of the legs, with the mid-legs greatl y elongated….

Life & Chemistry

Team Tracking Potential New Salamander Species

What may prove to be new species of salamander is being investigated in the George Washington National Forest by Washington and Lee University professor and…

Physics & Astronomy

New Cloaking Method: No Star Trek or Harry Potter Story

“We have shown that it is numerically possible to cloak objects of any shape that lie outside the cloaking devices, not just from single-frequency waves, but…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Champion Mare's Legacy Lives on with Unusual Birth of Filly

After the mare died at the Cornell Hospital for Animals, veterinarian Sylvia Bedford-Guaus and her laboratory team ” graduate student Lori McPartlin and…

Information Technology

Smart Cane Gives a New Direction

While common tools available today include canes or guide dogs, a group of engineering students at Central Michigan University say they have designed another…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

GPS Helps Locate Soil Erosion Pathways

Mapping techniques that help identify where erosion channels will likely form could help farmers and conservation professionals do a better job of designing…

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