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Study Could Lead to Tomato Plants with Stronger Defenses
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Few things say summer like a home-grown tomato.
But getting that red, juicy tomato challenges home gardeners and farmers alike, all of whom battle insects and diseases from the moment that young plants spring from the ground until the last tomato on the vine is picked.
Researchers in the pl...
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Hybrid Lighting Technology Gaining Momentum Around Nation
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With five hybrid solar lighting systems already in place and another 20 scheduled to be installed in the next couple of months, the forecast is looking sunny for a technology developed at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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Ancient Bison Teeth Provide Window on Past Great Plains Climate, Vegetation
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A University of Washington researcher has devised a way to use the fossil teeth of ancient bison as a tool to reconstruct historic climate and vegetation changes in America's breadbasket, the Great Plains.
The teeth hold evidence of the type of vegetation that grew in a particular location at a...
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Palm Deaths Accelerating on Florida Coast; Likely Cause Is Rising Seas
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Palm trees on Florida’s west coast appear to be dying more rapidly than in previous years because of sea level rise tied to global warming.
University of Florida scientists who began monitoring a large coastal study area in North Florida in 1992 reported widespread deaths of palms and other tre...
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Scientists Reverse Evolution, Reconstruct Ancient Gene
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University of Utah scientists have shown how evolution works by reversing the process, reconstructing a 530-million-year-old gene by combining key portions of two modern mouse genes that descended from the archaic gene.
“It provides further evidence at the molecular level of how evolutio...
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Ecological Rock Stars
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What makes an ecological icon? Tuesday, August 8, 2006, 1:30 – 5:00 PM, Cotton Row, Mezzanine Level, Cook Convention Center, Memphis, TN.
Newswise — Contrary to popular public perception that the field of ecology arose in the 1960s, the science of ecology can be traced back to the mid-1800s. Re...
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Researchers Funded to Study Secondhand Smoke, Role of Oxidants
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Two biomedical researchers at The University of Texas Health Center at Tyler recently received separate grants to study how secondhand smoke may make people more susceptible to tuberculosis infection and to examine the possible role of oxidants in protecting the body against the harmful effect...
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Reversing Malnutrition a Spoonful at a Time
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Swollen bellies, orange hair, listlessness and dull eyes — these are the traits of child malnutrition in Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and where roughly one of every three children is chronically malnourished.
To try to change that statistic, Patricia A. Wolff, M.D., a...
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Escalators as Source of Injury to Children
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Approximately 2,000 children are treated in United States hospital emergency rooms annually for escalator-related injuries. According to a study published in the August issue of Pediatrics and conducted by researchers at the Center for Injury Research and Policy (CIRP) in the Columbus Childr...
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Lawn Mowers Injure Thousands of U.S. Children Annually
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Despite current safety efforts, thousands of U.S. children need emergency medical care for preventable lawn mower-related injuries each year. According to a study published in the August issue of Pediatrics and conducted by researchers at the Center for Injury Research and Policy (CIRP) in the...
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