News articles tagged with 'organic'
Organic weed control options for highbush blueberry
— 5 Nov 2009 11:13 | BiologyResearch scientists at Nova Scotia Agricultural College have been working steadily to find effective organic methods to control weeds in cultivated blueberry crops. One resulting study,... — full story
NIST scientists study how to stack the deck for organic solar power
— 29 Jul 2009 19:23 | TechnologyA new class of economically viable solar power cells - cheap, flexible and easy to make - has come a step closer to reality as a result of recent work at the National Institute of Standards... — full story
Organic food not nutritionally better than conventionally-produced food
— 29 Jul 2009 18:58 | HealthThere is no evidence that organically produced foods are nutritionally superior to conventionally produced foodstuffs, according to a study published today in The American Journal of... — full story
Light determines access to fish in lakes
— 23 Jul 2009 17:03 | EnvironmentBy comparing clear mountain lakes with brown forest lakes the scientists have been able to show that what controls production in lakes is light. This runs counter to conventional truths... — full story
Scientists say that microbial mats built 3.4-billion-year-old stromatolites
— 17 Jul 2009 03:24 | Geology and palaeontologyStromatolites are dome- or column-like sedimentary rock structures that are formed in shallow water, layer by layer, over long periods of geologic time. Now, researchers from the California... — full story
Subseafloor sediment in South Pacific Gyre
— 23 Jun 2009 12:21 | EnvironmentAn international oceanographic research expedition to the middle of the South Pacific Gyre - a site that is as far from continents as it is possible to go on Earth's surface - found... — full story
An easy way to find a needle in a haystack by removing the haystack
— 19 Jun 2009 09:36 | HealthResearchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena and their colleagues from the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague have developed a new method to quickly and reliably... — full story
Summer haze cools southeastern US
— 19 May 2009 13:25 | EnvironmentGlobal warming may include some periods of local cooling, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley. Results from satellite and ground-based... — full story
Michigan astronomer to search in space for precursors of life
— 30 Apr 2009 12:21 | AstronomyMany of the organic molecules that make up life on Earth have also been found in space. A University of Michigan astronomer will use the Herschel Space Observatory to study these chemical... — full story
Two highly complex organic molecules detected in space
— 21 Apr 2009 11:48 | AstronomyScientists from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn, Germany, Cornell University, USA, and the University of Cologne, Germany, have detected two of the most... — full story