In the News
The California Backyard Orchard: A University of California Resource f
Includes information on the benefits of home orchards, how to choose a site, planting and maintenance tips, pest control, links to related resources, and more. Covers tree and shrub fruits and nuts, berries, and table grapes. Includes events and maintenance calendars, a glossary, and a guide to using the services of University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE) Master Gardeners program. British Academics To Benefit From World's First National Text Mining S
Search engines return thousands of documents, but the difficulty for the user is to find those which are most personally relevant. Most of these searches have little concept of the meaning of words that is gained from the context of a sentence. By using natural language processing, text mining can discover this meaning and focus on specific needs of the user. Wormholes -- Yet Another Avenue For Pollution?
There's no doubt that earthworms benefit agriculture by their tunneling. But a recent study has shown that their burrows might also be funneling liquid manure--and possibly other contaminants--to underground drainage pipes. These, in turn, flush contaminated water onward, bypassing normal filtering and cleansing by soil. Chandra Finds Evidence For Swarm Of Black Holes Near The Galactic Cent
A swarm of 10,000 or more black holes may be orbiting the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, according to new results from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This would represent the highest concentration of black holes anywhere in the Galaxy. Thousands Of Starving Children Could Be Restored To Health With Peanut
An enriched peanut butter mixture given at home is successfully promoting recovery in large numbers of starving children in Malawi, according to researchers. Malnutrition affects 70 percent of all Malawian children with an estimated 13 percent of children dying from it before the age of five. No Need For Children With Lazy Eye To Wear Patches All Day
Children with amblyopia (commonly known as lazy eye) need only wear an eye patch for three to four hours a day for 12 weeks to improve vision, say researchers. Patching for all waking hours for up to several years, which is often recommended, is almost certainly excessive, according to a new article. Hacking My Child's Brain, Part 4
A Colorado program may help with the balance and posture problems encountered by people suffering from Sensory Processing Disorder. In Bodyhack. Biochemist Goes To Washington With High-protein Corn
Daniel Gallie, professor of biochemistry at UC Riverside, will present his research on high-protein corn before a congressional committee in Washington, D.C., Sept. 23. The research holds promise for efficiently feeding such corn to people and livestock all over the world. Gallie's research on doubling the protein content of corn grain adds significant value to the crop, benefiting corn producers. Moreover, his technology nearly doubles corn oil, the most valuable content of corn grain, and significantly increases the grain's value. [Odd] A Romanian couple has named their son Yahoo as a sign of gratitu
Daily Libertatea said on Thursday Cornelia and Nonu Dragoman, both from Transylvania, met and decided they were meant for each other following a three-month relationship over the net.They married and had a baby this Christmas, whom they decided to name after one of the worldwide web's most popular portals."We named him Lucian Yahoo after my father and the net, the main beacon of my life,"Cornelia Dragoman was quoted as saying. Hormone Therapy: Monkey Studies Parallel Women's Health Initiative Fin
Studies in female monkeys helped raise important questions about hormone therapy that were addressed in a Women's Health Initiative study reported recently in the New England Journal of Medicine. The animal research also suggests the role that stress can play in heart disease development and point to the need for early prevention of heart disease.
MP3 Music Downloads
Preview songs, Download Free Music,Burn CDs at ITunes.com
 
|
