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Get agricultural research to farmers, universities told
African universities have been urged to lead the way in making sure agricultural research gets to the farmers that most need it.
Obama: Innovation Is Key to Our Future
In another nod to the value of science and technology, the president in his weekly radio address Aug. 1 said long-term investments in innovation are needed to ensure the country's long-term...
An Underwater Fight Is Waged for the Health of San Francisco Bay
An Asian kelp, a costly intruder known as wakame, has arrived in the city’s fertile waters, threatening native kelp, marinas, boats and mariculture like oyster farming.
Suicide's Rising Toll: After Combat, Victims of an Inner War
The rising toll of suicides in the military has hit a National Guard unit particularly hard: four soldiers, out of roughly 175 members, have committed suicide.
Trap Would Help Keep Stink Bugs Outdoors
A trap to keep stinks bugs from Asia out of people's homes is being developed. The brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys, has expanded its range to Virginia, West Virginia,...
Baby giraffe arrives in Salt Lake Zoo
SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- The newest arrival at the Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City is a 120-pound, 6-foot-2 mail male giraffe, born to two first...
Infrared cameras reveal ancient city
VENICE, Italy, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- An ancient Italian city destroyed by Attila the Hun and now hidden underground has been mapped for the first time via infrared photography,...
Opening a new window on daylight
A new approach to windows that could let in more light and cut indoor lighting needs by up to 99% in buildings in Tropical regions without losing the cooling effect...
Middle Miocene Oxygen Minimum Zone Expansion Offshore West Africa: Evidence For Global Cooling Precursor Events
The Middle Miocene Climatic Optimum (16 to 14 million years ago), considered generally to be the warmest period in Earth's history within the past 25 million years, saw a major...
Scientist: Giant snake no guide to climate
PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 1 (UPI) -- A California scientist disputes a theory that a giant snake that lived about 60 million years ago needed a warm climate to...
World Briefing | Asia: India: Warrant Issued for Former Union Carbide Head
A court issued a warrant for the arrest of the former head of the American chemical company responsible for a gas leak that killed thousands and sickened more than half...
Energetic Bottleneck Factors In Catastrophic Winter Seabird Losses
Every winter, thousands of seabirds are washed up on shore having perished in unexplained "winter wrecks." To find out why so many seabirds die, researchers calculated the energy requirements of...
Core values
This yoga pose may look simple, but it'll challenge and strengthen your core. Strengthen your core with this simple yet challenging yoga pose. If you have tight hamstrings, you can keep your knees...
Floating Apartment Complex Takes the Worry Out of Rising Seas
There are two ways to react to global warming: you can fear it, or you can embrace it. Architect Koen Olthuis of Dutch design firm Waterstudio chooses the latter. His Citadel apartment...
Junking old electronic equipment does not compute
The box is about 4 feet by 4 feet, and stuffed inside are a few thousand dollars worth of "trash."
Roadrunners not too fast for AgriLife researcher
VERNON -- Wile E. Coyote might not have been able to catch up with the roadrunner on the Saturday morning cartoons, but one Texas AgriLife Research scientist has had...
Baylor gains $50,000 fabric printer
WACO, Texas, July 31 (UPI) -- College students in Waco, Texas, are experimenting with a $50,000 printer designed to handle 5-foot-wide bolts of cloth, Baylor University officials said.
Giant Ocean-Trash Vortex Attracts Explorers
Two expeditions—including one that sets sail next week—will visit the Pacific Ocean's garbage patch this summer to call attention to millions of tons of plastic pollution.
Sahara Desert Greening Due to Climate Change?
Vast swaths of North Africa are getting lusher, new satellite images show, suggesting a possible boon for people living in the driest part of the continent.
Agilent swoops on Varian
More consolidation hits the instrumentation industry as Agilent snaps up Varian for $1.5 billion (£900 million)
Forests reclaiming Switzerland
LUGANO, Switzerland, July 31 (UPI) -- More of Switzerland is being reclaimed by forests as fewer people make their living in agriculture, Swiss foresters said.
Methods for monitoring CO2 emissions have limitations, inadequate for international climate treaty
Current methods for estimating greenhouse gas emissions have limitations that make it difficult to monitor CO2 emissions and verify an international climate treaty, says a new National Research Council letter...
Pesticides damaging Chesapeake Bay
BALTIMORE, July 31 (UPI) -- Pesticides from homes and farms contribute significantly to the deterioration of the Chesapeake Bay, U.S. scientists and public health experts said.
Iron isotopes as a tool in oceanography
New research involving scientists from the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS) highlights the potential utility of iron isotopes for addressing important questions in ocean science. The findings are published in...
Israeli project protects coastal aquifer
JERUSALEM, July 31 (UPI) -- To counter salination of its coastal acquifer, Israel's National Water Authority has authorized a $131.3 million project, a report said.
Afghanistan prepares itself to resist deadly plant plague that threatens food security in region
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (31 July 2009) -Scientists are racing to arm Afghanistan against a new invader-a deadly, airborne wheat rust disease that threatens wheat production and food security in this war-torn...
Water linked to mantle oxidation
Scientists have analysed minuscule samples of magma and found a direct link between water content and oxidation state
Waters along upper Atlantic seaboard the most pristine, report says
The nation's cleanest beachwaters are along the upper half of the Atlantic seaboard, in Virginia, Delaware and New Hampshire, a national environmental group said Wednesday.