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The issue of the pressure related to the reduction of chemical pesticides exerted by regular farming product consumers on both farmers and markets remains unanswered, as a recent UK study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) shows. Given the premises and resources, the usage of biological counter... |
8 October 2008
09:58 GMT |
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Plants may not have complex tissues and a nervous system, but they still "feel". If they sprout, develop and flower at the right time and place, that's because they are sensitive to environmental factors. The vegetation boom during each spring shows they obey precise rhythms, which come encoded in their genes. P... |
29 April 2008
09:34 GMT |
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1. Anise (Pimpinella anisum). It works against distensions, coughing, colics, gut and stomach spasms, low digestive secretions and dry mucosae, bronchitis; it stimulates lactation in new mothers. 2. Bergamot orange (Citrus x bergamia). It works against anxiety, irritability, stress, distension, gut infections, colics... |
31 January 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Beetles make the most numerous group of insects. They form the order Coleoptera ("sheathed wing") because of their elytras (thickened outer pair of wings). 25% of all species on Earth are beetles and they make for 40% of all described insects but there may be at least 5 million undescribed beetle species. They live a... |
18 December 2007
14:21 GMT |
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We live in a world of synthetic chemicals. They are found from our food to all the objects around us. Many of them are toxic. And some can trigger what is called Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS). For example, you may say you live in a healthy countryside, but the pesticides they throw in the neighboring crop field... |
18 December 2007
14:06 GMT |
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Some pour a bit of milk. Others add sugar - which is quite unhealthy - to 'improve' the taste of their coffee. But now researchers have determined why dark-roasted coffee is so bitter, this being a first step towards producing a natural milder type of coffee. The research team made chemical analyses and fol... |
22 August 2007
02:40 GMT |
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Interstellar space is an unwelcoming environment, where temperatures reach as low as 20 Kelvin (-253.15 degrees Celsius or -423.67 degrees Fahrenheit). However, a new study shows that even at these extreme temperatures, some key chemical reactions can take place, between neutral radicals and neutral molecules.Radica... |
16 July 2007
11:32 GMT |
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Good times for the male pooches. Their balls will be safe, while they will get friendlier, due to a new contraceptive implant that stops testosterone and sperm production for months. It is expected to obtain European approval within weeks, and it could be also sold in the US.The production of sex cells (egg and sperm... |
12 July 2007
13:06 GMT |
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Each new piece of a comet brings scientists closer to understanding some of the most important events in the Universe and a recent analysis indicates that many comets may be related to one another, even more than previously thought.Comets are celestial bodies that orbit stars like our Sun and are well known for thei... |
12 July 2007
09:02 GMT |
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Sometimes the suicide bombers have more noble intentions than 72 virgins. They can save the whole colony, like in the case of the cabbage aphids that have developed a type of mustard oil "bomb" that helps them keep the predators away, as revealed by a new research. This is the first time when aphids have been found t... |
12 July 2007
05:13 GMT |
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In a world wrapped in myth, that of the Native Americans, the Sioux shamans fought with the evil spirits conquering the bodies of the diseased with more than sorceries. They employed Echinacea, a medicinal herb that has proven to reduce the risk of catching a cold with almost 50%, as showed by a new wide-scale revie... |
26 June 2007
03:28 GMT |
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An incendiary bomb is used to start fires or destroy sensitive equipment using materials such as napalm, thermite, chlorine trifluoride, or white phosphorus. Napalm is the most known incendiary material, although the name is improperly used to describe the incendiary substance itself, when in fact it's only the... |
4 June 2007
11:17 GMT |
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Gold (Au) is probably the most famous chemical element around the world. If you ask around, not many people will tell you they never heard of it. For many centuries, it's been used as currency, before the invention of paper money (which was made because of the lack of gold), in jewelry, and in many industry are... |
11 May 2007
10:43 GMT |
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Ununbium (Uub) is the 112th element of the periodic table, often alternatively called eka-mercury and a systematic temporary element, part of the superheavy elements called transactinides.Usually, researchers have a hard time catching the slightest glimpse of the superheavy elements at the far edge of the periodic ... |
4 May 2007
09:29 GMT |
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The power of Superman is at our reach. Kryptonite, the green mineral that sapped the hero's power when exposed to it, has turned from fiction to reality, as a similar one has just been discovered by a team from the mining group Rio Tinto in a Serbian mine. "The real mineral is white and harmless. (...) it'... |
24 April 2007
07:16 GMT |
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It is seen as the universal solution to oil crisis. Ethanol is promoted as an environmentally friendly and renewable fuel, as it is achieved from the fermentation corn and other crops or even from plant wastes. The carbon dioxide resulted from burning ethanol would be equal to that soaked up from atmosphere by the pl... |
18 April 2007
10:05 GMT |
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