 Biotech cotton provides same yield with fewer pesticides May 02, 2006 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Arizona farmers receive the same yield/acre, use fewer chemical insecticides and maintain insect biodiversity when they plant the biotech cotton known as Bt cotton, according to new research. | |
Humans hot, sweaty, natural-born runners April 16, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 186 vote(s)
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Hairless, clawless, and largely weaponless, ancient humans used the unlikely combination of sweatiness and relentlessness to gain the upper hand over their faster, stronger, generally more dangerous animal prey, Harvard Anthropology ... | |
Blue-eyed humans have a single, common ancestor January 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 96 vote(s)
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New research shows that people with blue eyes have a single, common ancestor. A team at the University of Copenhagen have tracked down a genetic mutation which took place 6-10,000 years ago and is the cause of the eye colour ... | |
The good news in our DNA: Defects you can fix with vitamins and minerals June 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 68 vote(s)
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As the cost of sequencing a single human genome drops rapidly, with one company predicting a price of $100 per person in five years, soon the only reason not to look at your "personal genome" will be fear of what bad news ... | |
 You are what your mother eats: First evidence that mother's diet influences infant sex April 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 39 vote(s)
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New research by the Universities of Exeter and Oxford provides the first evidence that a child’s sex is associated with the mother’s diet. Published today, in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society ... | |
Are humans evolving faster? Findings suggest we are becoming more different, not alike December 10, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 85 vote(s)
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Researchers discovered genetic evidence that human evolution is speeding up – and has not halted or proceeded at a constant rate, as had been thought – indicating that humans on different continents are becoming increasingly ... | |
Researchers discover second light-sensing system in human eye December 13, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 54 vote(s)
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New research on blind subjects has bolstered evidence that the human eye has two separate light-sensing systems — one that perceives the familiar visual signals that allow us to see and a second, separate system that tells ... | |
 New hypothesis for origin of life proposed December 04, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 100 vote(s)
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Life may have begun in the protected spaces inside of layers of the mineral mica, in ancient oceans, according to a new hypothesis. | |
 World's hottest chile pepper discovered October 26, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 35 vote(s)
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Researchers at New Mexico State University recently discovered the world’s hottest chile pepper. | |
 Missing Link Between Whales and Four-Footed Ancestors Discovered December 19, 2007 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 41 vote(s)
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Scientists have discovered the missing link between whales and their four-footed ancestors. The result is reported in this week's issue of the journal Nature. The research is funded by the National ... | |
World's oldest living tree discovered in Sweden April 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 54 vote(s)
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The world's oldest recorded tree is a 9,550 year old spruce in the Dalarna province of Sweden
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Could hydrogen sulfide hold the key to a long life? December 03, 2007 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 58 vote(s)
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Hydrogen sulfide, or H2S, the chemical that gives rotten eggs their sulfurous stench – and the same compound that researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center successfully have used to put mice into a state of reversible ... | |
Research team makes progress toward 'printing' organs November 06, 2007 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 45 vote(s)
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Each year, pharmaceutical companies invest millions of dollars to test drugs, many of which will never reach the market because of side effects found only during human clinical trials. At the same time, the number of patients ... | |
Pregnant women get morning sickness to protect fetus July 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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Morning sickness. It's the bane of many of a pregnancy. And many a future mother wonders at the apparently unnecessary suffering. But, it turns out, there's meaning to the misery. Two evolutionary biologists report that morning ... | |
Thinking ahead: Bacteria anticipate coming changes in their environment June 09, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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A new study by Princeton University researchers shows for the first time that bacteria don't just react to changes in their surroundings -- they anticipate and prepare for them. The findings, reported in the June 6 issue ... | |
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