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Probably all of us associate summertime with vacation and the time when we all get the chance to go on relaxing holidays, away from the stress or monotony of everyday life. And, usually, people choose to spend their vacation with friends (the more the merrier, right?), the result of that being that we all come back h... |
31 July 2008
13:29 GMT |
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The mystery behind the massive decline in the wild bee populations in North America can be explained through the spread of diseases from commercially bred species, which appear to escape from greenhouses that are used to grow crops, such as tomatoes, bell peppers and cucumbers, said researchers yesterday. Commerciall... |
23 July 2008
05:31 GMT |
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Since prehistory, people have been consuming about 3,000 plant species. Of these species, about 150 have been cultivated systematically, and the development of agriculture just made humans to exclude "marginal" species, for focusing on an increasingly smaller number of plant species. This resulted in the fact that no... |
9 April 2008
10:58 GMT |
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XtraLean Software has recently updated its image editor, ImageWell, to version 3.5. The new release adds a new sharpness filter, two new shapes, double click on History item to open it in browser, return key executes crop and of course a bunch of minor tweaks and fixes. ImageWell requires Mac OS 10.3.9 or higher. A t... |
3 April 2008
06:48 GMT |
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1.Even if it looks like a tree, the bamboo is just woody perennial evergreen grass, related to cereals like wheat, corn or rice. 2.The bamboo is the plant with the fastest growth rhythm: 2-3 cm per hour, up to one meter (3.3 ft) in one day. In 5-6 weeks, a bamboo reaches the height of 18-20 m (60-66 ft). For short pe... |
27 December 2007
10:32 GMT |
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Humankind, as a whole, has never faced the menace of having the factors that maintain it alive collapse. In your living area, an apple may be something banal, easy to get and perhaps diverse. But, while between 1804 and 1905 there were 7,098 types of apples cultivated in US, today 6,121 types (80 %) are extinct. 88 %... |
8 December 2007
03:37 GMT |
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First in Africa, now in India. Wildlife experts in northeastern India are using a new non-lethal weapon against crop raiding and home destroying elephants: superhot chili. Conservationists in Assam state tested against elephants jute fences ointed with automobile grease and bhut jolokia chilies (ghost chilies), the w... |
21 November 2007
04:07 GMT |
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Think on an invention that is a wrapping sheet, spoon, plate, and food, all at the same time, which can be eaten accompanying almost any other dish. This is the tortilla, a corn muffin and Mexico's base aliment. Corn is believed to have started being cultivated in Mexico thousands of years ago, and sustained gre... |
6 November 2007
14:06 GMT |
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This is the first chemical to which we get addicted. What would we do without sugar? Many types of dishes and sweets should be changed. Today, eating sugar is part of the daily menu, and the stuff is delivered by a worldwide industry, driving millions of people from Cuba to India, Brazil to Africa and Australia. Suga... |
30 October 2007
16:01 GMT |
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Pheromones have proven tricky in some cases. They allowed farmers to grow ecological apples and pears for decades. The farmers have to place in their orchards hundreds of plastic dispensers spreading a sex pheromone, which attracts and disrupts codling moth mating. A new research made at the Agricultural Research Ser... |
22 October 2007
06:14 GMT |
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This is not a cartoon joke: the Goliath of our days can be chased away by the same insects: bees. The giant mammals evacuate the place as soon as they hear the buzz of a bee swarm. In the end, this could be their salvation. Strategically placed beehives could prevent elephants from raiding crops, decreasing man-beast... |
9 October 2007
02:52 GMT |
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Tired of waiting for images to load while photo sharing with someone over the internet? Need to quickly show to your friends the latest pictures taken on holiday or at the graduation party? Or maybe you just want to update your messenger avatar and need to crop your smiling face from a high sized group photo? If time... |
30 June 2007
02:11 GMT |
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Classical knowledge says people started the earliest agriculture 10,000 years ago in the Middle East. But a new study shows that Native Americans could have started agriculture at the same time or even earlier. A team led by Tom Dillehay of Vanderbilt University has found 10,200-year-old squash seeds in the dirt floo... |
29 June 2007
05:08 GMT |
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