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These days, all the important news are posted on Facebook or Twitter. The trend has now expanded, allowing our beloved plants to Tweet whenever they're craving for some water.
Apart from the fact that the new system is very useful in keeping our plants green, it is also considered a great way of preserving wa... |
7 January 2012
03:45 GMT |
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A new reason of excitement comes from Russia, a nation planning to green up its infrastructure by opening the largest Li-ion battery plant all across the Globe. The announcement has pleased the public, taking into consideration that the new facility, located in Novobirsk, will hire more than 500 people and launch a... |
28 December 2011
07:21 GMT |
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Environmental activists from Los Angeles are eager to celebrate a new victory. They have managed to win an eight-year fight with a polluting metal finishing plant located close to a school, which has been affecting the health of teachers and pupils. After many deaths were linked to the environmental degradation tri... |
20 December 2011
03:12 GMT |
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Major polluting companies that refuse to comply with the new regulations issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have to take a significant amount of money out of their pockets. This appears to be the case of CalPortland, a cement plant located in in the vicinity of Mojave, whose owners will have to pay a... |
19 December 2011
06:58 GMT |
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There are about one million things we can do with our used plastic cups. Eco-conscious people recycle them, others just dump them on the streets, but an innovative company shows us we can reuse them in an ingenious way.
Designnobis has launched Naturwall, an amazing concept representing an awesome-looking urban ver... |
15 December 2011
02:54 GMT |
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The innovative Plant Pod launched by Alastair Crompton makes all the right decisions, saving you a lot of time and effort. The company has developed a smart pot that actually hydrates itself, without needing your help.
Tending to a garden is always a time-consuming activity. Taking care of plants usually requires b... |
2 December 2011
09:59 GMT |
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This may not be as serious as all the suicides at that Foxconn plant, but the problems in China are definitely not over, as workers going on strike will attest to.
This may be a case of a happy ending, although the agreement reached could mean a whole number of things.
About 1,000 employees from a Jingyuan Comput... |
24 November 2011
09:53 GMT |
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It looks like these are times when chain reactions get started on the IT market because of the actions of one single company, in this case Samsung, whose plan is to start building an LCD plant in China.It really looks like things in the display industry are moving forward on several paths at once, although liquid cr... |
22 April 2011
09:17 GMT |
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A new research carried out by Michigan State University – Department of Energy Plant Research Laboratory in collaboration with the University of Washington, discovered a hormone that acts like a molecular glue, that could improve plants' immune system.The name of this hormone is jasmonate, and it might be ... |
7 October 2010
06:54 GMT |
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Though it hasn't exactly made it into many electronics yet, the Mirasol display seems poised to finally gain some traction now that, according to reports that have only just started to roam the Internet, Qualcomm has decided to invest a full US$2 billion into the setting up of a new 4.5G production plant for su... |
20 August 2010
08:25 GMT |
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A recent string of stranger and stranger suicides recently got Foxconn a rather high amount of attention from the press. Until several days ago, ten people had fallen to their deaths from dorm windows at the company's factory in Shenzhen, one of which was found to had previously been stabbed with a knife several... |
25 May 2010
11:08 GMT |
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The most recent news about Foxconn most likely revolved around how it had been getting increased orders from HP, Apple, Sony and other top players, causing its first-quarter profits to surge by 35%. However, there is a rather dark, if not morbid, side to this story. To put it bluntly, while the factory churns out var... |
22 May 2010
05:54 GMT |
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Casual game creator PopCap Games has announced Plants vs. Zombies for the iPhone and iPod touch. It’s available right now from the App Store for $2.99. Since its release last year, Plants vs. Zombies for the PC and Mac has become one of the most successful franchises in the history of casual games. It is the be... |
16 February 2010
05:29 GMT |
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Currently, Taiwan-based LCD makers that produce panels larger than four inches are not allowed to invest in China and, in addition, their investments in advanced semiconductor manufacturing and production of ethylene are limited. When President Ma Ying-jeou was elected in 2008, he made a promise that he would work to... |
18 January 2010
05:21 GMT |
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Like other IT corporations that plan to lay off a part of their workforce as a means to cut their losses, Dell revealed its objective to reduce its Malaysian workforce by 700 employees. Still, unlike HP and Fujitsu, which have recently been plagued by strikes and walkouts, the emotional response from Dell's empl... |
17 December 2009
08:19 GMT |
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Taking a potted plant and placing it on your desk might not be just a girlie thing, as in, prompted by aesthetic reasons, as we all might be tempted to believe. In fact, a plant helps us fight allergies caused by indoor pollution in what is known as the “Sick Building Syndrome,” according to a NASA study.... |
24 March 2009
09:24 GMT |
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The 5,000-year-old Tyrolean iceman mummy found in a melting glacier almost two decades ago still has some surprises in store for researchers. As an example, during a recent study, they discovered that the Copper Age man ingested, more or less accidentally or conscientiously, six different moss types, including one th... |
2 December 2008
09:40 GMT |
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Tradition and legend have it that four-leaf clovers bring luck to their finders. You might tend to believe that, but if you happen to find a five-leaf clover, what would be your first thought? According to common superstition, this kind of clover brings even more good luck to the already lucky discoverer, plus a bonu... |
31 October 2008
11:25 GMT |
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Back in 1998, there was a contest called EDITT (Ecological Design in the tropics) which would sponsor ecologically-oriented building projects. The winner was Dr. Ken Yeang from T.R. Hamzah & Yeang International, an ecological architecture company, whose project focused on the building of a large ecological skyscraper... |
16 October 2008
05:57 GMT |
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A scarce plant once populating the inland salty marshes of upstate New York was thought to have gone extinct. But recently, the rare species of goldenrod appeared from nowhere, in a surprising place: on the sides of the local roads.The re-emergence of the rare plant surprised the specialists. If anyone expected this ... |
1 October 2008
06:45 GMT |
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Life is ephemeral by definition but it does vary from one species to another. The lifespan of each organism is considered to be the actual time it takes said organism to complete its life cycle. Most bacteria live for 15-80 minutes and then they divide into two daughter cells. More complex organisms live much longer.... |
14 May 2008
15:46 GMT |
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Who would believe that all the roots and absorbing hairs of grasses or cereals, be they rye, wheat or couch grass, put all together, could form a line surrounding the perimeter of an European country? In 1937, a German naturalist carried out this scrupulous work, measuring the surface and length of all roots of a rye... |
29 April 2008
10:42 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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Throughout the history of Earth, countless plant and animal species have appeared and disappeared, because not only individuals, but species too get old and become extinct. Best case scenario, they live on in related species, that may later evolve in new plant or animal groups. Very few species resisted throughout th... |
23 April 2008
03:56 GMT |
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In 1995, the Ministry of the Environment of South Africa launched the program "Working for the Water," aiming to eliminate the "foreign plants" by cleansing 20 million of hectares for returning water to the natives, both plants and humans. Those supporting the program said the exotic species, imported or entered acci... |
9 April 2008
11:26 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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In the world of the building materials, bamboo could compete successfully against steel, concrete, wood and glass. Because of its exceptional mechanical qualities, low price and design, bamboo could turn into one of the preferred building materials of the future. Even if it looks like a tree, the bamboo is just a woo... |
29 March 2008
09:02 GMT |
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Lizards wandered the world along with the dinosaurs. And even if small, they proved tougher, as they survived into the era of the mammals. A 130-million-year-old fossil found in the Ishikawa Prefecture of Japan and described by the journal "Paleontology" is the oldest found plant-eating lizard, a discovery with impli... |
25 March 2008
03:57 GMT |
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Men and women think differently, behave differently, have a different structure, and that's why it should be not such a surprise they eat differently as well. A new research presented at the recent 2008 International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases in Atlanta, Georgia, shows us how. Indeed, men remain... |
21 March 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Over 50 tropical and subtropical areas (20, only in Africa) are infested today by the beautiful water hyacinth (Eichornia crassipes), originating in the Amazon basin. The conquered areas go from Africa (except Sahara and Namib deserts and southern tip of South Africa) to India, Indochina, eastern China, Japonia, New ... |
11 March 2008
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The world we live in is full of synthetic chemicals, most of which are toxic. They are encountered from our food to all the objects we touch. No wonder the explosion of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) cases (see: http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-Disease-of-the-Technology-MCS-74254.shtml). But if you think that ... |
9 February 2008
07:07 GMT |
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The Big Mac combination may be an insidious caloric bomb loaded with starches and oils, but a new research of the plants that people around the world eat has found it, if you can believe this, as a symbol of a varied diet brought by globalization!The team from the University of Calgary and Stellenbosch University in ... |
8 February 2008
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The largest ever land animals were the enormous plant-eater dinosaurs called sauropods, of which Apatosaurus (former Brontosaurus) is the best known. These creatures could grow up to 42 m (130 ft) in length (but the neck and tail could be longer than their body) and at least 110 tons in weight. Researchers have been... |
8 February 2008
03:30 GMT |
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You are an animal lover, and you have decided not to eat anything coming from an animal. But with the meat and animal products out, you're going to miss many minerals, vitamins and nutrients. Watch out to this:1. Proteins are the "bricks" of the organism, and must contain all the essential aminoacids, in precise... |
1 February 2008
14:06 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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These are the most impressive carnivorous plants, having spectacular traps: pitcher plants (Nepenthes), growing in various places, from Madagascar and southeastern Asia to northeastern Australia. The 117 species are also dubbed "Monkey cups" as monkeys have been spotted drinking rainwater from them. These plants are ... |
29 January 2008
05:07 GMT |
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1. Plants have in their structure xylem tubes that transport water and mineral salts and phloem tubes that carry the food. Both types of tubes are produced by a meristematic tissue called cambium. Xylem is produced inward, phloem outward. Death xylem layers form the wood. 2. The green pigment called chlorophyll allow... |
26 January 2008
07:50 GMT |
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Two days ago, Nokia announced that it will close its manufacturing plant from Bochum, Germany, and transfer production to other plants in order to lower production costs. Opened more than 20 years ago, in 1987, the Bochum Nokia factory currently has more than 2,300 employees that will be affected after the plant clo... |
17 January 2008
10:55 GMT |
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The spring, when nature blooms, pollen is everywhere in the air. It is the curse for the allergic people, experiencing the "hay fever". But what's the pollen? The product of the male part of the flowers (stamins), in other words, plant sperm. For a plant to reproduce, the pollen must reach the pistil on the fema... |
27 November 2007
11:00 GMT |
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1.Costa Rica is a small country from Central America having 4 million inhabitants and is slightly larger than Switzerland. The land was discovered in 1502 by Columbus, who was taken by surprise with his whole fleet by a storm in the waters off the neighboring Honduras. Columbus navigated along the shores of present-d... |
27 November 2007
08:26 GMT |
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Life on Earth is fueled by the 'relationship' between plants and sunlight. A new research made on Arabidopsis, a common model plant employed in researches and published in Nature "has significantly advanced our understanding of how plant responses to light are regulated, and perhaps even how such responses ... |
26 November 2007
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An oak with a 37 cm trunk diameter has about 119,000 leaves while a pine with a trunk of 60-70 cm in diameter has 30-40 million needle leaves. An oak eliminates in a warm summer through its leaves about 10 tonnes of water. There is only one place in the world, at the north of the Panama Channel, where trees with a sq... |
23 November 2007
15:59 GMT |
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Except for sea food and fish, all you eat comes directly or indirectly (through chicken, pork and beef) from flowering plants. But how they appeared is a big puzzle for the researchers. A new research made by a team at Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) and published in Nature comes with new data on the issue. New 3-D non... |
23 November 2007
03:28 GMT |
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There are at least 500 species of medicinal plants utilized by the Indians of Amazon. 10 species coming from the Amazon are already employed by drug companies. Cat's claw (Uncaria tomentosa) is a woody vine related to the coffee tree, employed locally in Amazonia (Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador), drunk as infusion. T... |
22 November 2007
14:06 GMT |
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There are over 200 species of plants linked to the existence of underground ore deposits. Plants usually need in low amounts metals for their metabolism. If there is too high the amount encountered in the soil, the plants depose the absorbed excess in their tissues. Sometimes, the deposits can be so big, that when th... |
21 November 2007
10:06 GMT |
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These are the most amazing carnivorous plants: the 117 pitcher plant species of the genus Nepenthes, found from Madagascar and southeastern Asia to northeastern Australia. They possess the most spectacular traps, even if considered amongst the least sophisticated functionally, till the publication of a new research i... |
21 November 2007
06:07 GMT |
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T-rex might have been one of the most fearsome meat eaters ever to walk the Earth, but, surprisingly, there was a group of closely related dinosaurs that were plant-eaters; they were called the therizinosaurs. One of these odd waddling dinosaurs with long arms and enormous claws has been recently found in Gansu Provi... |
4 October 2007
02:43 GMT |
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Ever wanted to grow some flowers, but you were just too busy typing away at your computer to remember to water them? Well, now the USB enabled Greenhouse has the answer for you, as it comes with everything you need to grow your very own flowers and that without stepping very far away from your computer.A cool gadget ... |
15 September 2007
06:59 GMT |
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Lenovo is one of the most important computer systems manufacturer and vendor, sitting in Top 5 just behind more powerful names like HP and Dell. Like any other computer hardware manufacturing firm, Lenovo thinks about expanding its producing facilities in emerging and developing countries as a means to cut production... |
27 July 2007
05:51 GMT |
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American citizens are not very fond of nuclear powerplants, in fact, of anything that involves the word "nuclear." This is somewhat understandable considering that for half a century they lived with the constant threat of global nuclear war, caused by the arms race and constant showoffs from both the former Soviet U... |
24 July 2007
10:52 GMT |
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