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DNA vaccine and duck eggs protect against hantavirus diseaseFrederick VA (SPX) May 28, 2012 Army scientists and industry collaborators have successfully protected laboratory animals from lethal hantavirus disease using a novel approach that combines DNA vaccines and duck eggs. The work appears in a recent edition of the online scientific journal PLoS ONE, published by the Public Library of Science. According to first author Jay W. Hooper of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), this is the first time that the DNA vaccine/duck egg system has been show ... read more |
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 The secret to good tomato chemistry There is nothing better than a ripe, red, homegrown tomato, and now researchers reporting online in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, have figured out just what it is that makes some of the ... more | .. |
 Food, water safety provide new challenges for today's sensors Sensors that work flawlessly in laboratory settings may stumble when it comes to performing in real-world conditions, according to researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Labora ... more | .. |
 Commonly used pesticide turns honey bees into 'picky eaters' Biologists at UC San Diego have discovered that a small dose of a commonly used crop pesticide turns honey bees into "picky eaters" and affects their ability to recruit their nestmates to otherwise ... more | .. |
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 Winemakers push China sales at top Asian wine fair Some of the world's top wine producers will attend Asia's biggest wine fair in Hong Kong this week, eyeing new consumers in the booming but still relatively untapped Chinese market. ... more | .. |
  N. Korea suffering severe drought: state media North Korea is suffering a prolonged and widespread drought, state media says, raising fears it will worsen already dire food shortages in the impoverished communist country. ... more | .. |
  City's population is counted from space The population of an entire city has been estimated from space to speed up medical and disaster relief efforts, British researchers say. ... more | .. |
 Nea Kameni volcano movement captured by Envisat Archived data from the Envisat satellite show that the volcanic island of Santorini has recently displayed signs of unrest. Even after the end of its mission, Envisat information continues to be exp ... more |
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AALTO plans Zephyr stratospheric hub in northern Australia and seeks local payload partners
Ancient guano drove Chincha coastal power
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 My American Landscape Contest: A Space Chronicle of Change To celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the United States' Landsat Earth-observing program - which first rocketed into space on July 23, 1972 - NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey are giving someth ... more | .. |
 Sahel food crisis to remain critical in coming months: UN UN aid chief Valerie Amos said Thursday that a humanitarian crisis arising from food shortages in the drought-stricken Sahel would remain critical in the next few months. ... more | .. |
  Rousseff under pressure to veto Brazil's new forest code Activists on Thursday said they handed Brazil's president a petition with nearly two million signatures urging her to veto a new forestry code that could result in increased Amazon rainforest deforestation. ... more | .. |
  Earth's water cycle intensifying with atmospheric warming In a paper published in the journal Science, Australian scientists from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Calif ... more |
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 Swiss ultralight trikes used to explore Lake Baikal Russian scientists are planning to explore Lake Baikal using ultralight trikes or motorized deltaplanes that will be delivered from Switzerland in the summer of 2013. Last year, the Lake of Geneva w ... more | .. |
 Unparalleled Views of Earth's Coast With HREP-HICO Scanning the globe from the vantage point of the International Space Station is about more than the fantastic view. While cruising in low Earth orbit, the space station HICO and RAIDS Experiment Pay ... more | .. |
 Blossom end rot plummets in Purdue-developed transgenic tomato The brown tissue that signals blossom end rot in tomatoes is a major problem for large producers and home gardeners, but a Purdue University researcher has unknowingly had the answer to significantl ... more | .. |
 Where bees are, there will be honey even pre-historic Amber from Cretaceous deposits (110-105 my) in Northern Spain has revealed the first ever record of insect pollination. Scientists have discovered in two pieces of amber several specimens of tiny in ... more |
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Sidekick autonomy software guides YFQ-42A test mission for CCA program
Infleqtion lists shares on NYSE as neutral atom quantum firm
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 China to increase rainmaking efforts A leading Chinese meteorologist says the country will employ more rainmaking technology and make better use of it in the next five years. ... more | .. |
 UW plant breeders develop an even heart-healthier oat University of Wisconsin-Madison plant breeders have developed a new oat variety that's significantly higher in the compound that makes this grain so cardio-friendly. "The biggest thing that st ... more | .. |
 Pollination with precision: How flowers do it Next Mother's Day, say it with an evolved model of logistical efficiency - a flower. A new discovery about how nature's icons of romance manage the distribution of sperm among female gametes with in ... more | .. |
 Agricultural expert outlines path for developing nations to double food production, meet 2050 demand Like countries throughout the world, Malaysia will need double its current food production by 2050 due to population growth and rising living standards. At a meeting in New York with Malaysia's Prim ... more |
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 Financial tool considered climate change uncertainty to select land for conservation A tool commonly used by financial strategists to determine what shares to purchase to create a diversified stock portfolio was used to develop a diversified portfolio of another kind - land to be se ... more | .. |
 Could cap and trade for water solve problems facing large US rivers Lake Mead, on the Colorado River, is the largest reservoir in the United States, but users are consuming more water than flows down the river in an average year, which threatens the water supply for ... more | .. |
 How plants chill out Although scientists have made significant advances in understanding how plants elongate at high temperature, little is known of the physiological consequences of this response. To investigate these ... more | .. |
 Chile's vanishing Patagonian lake In less than 24 hours Lake Cachet II in Chile's southern Patagonia vanished, leaving behind just some large puddles and chunks of ice in the vast lake bed. ... more |
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DAMPE space telescope finds universal spectral feature that narrows field on cosmic ray origins
ThinKom Develops Self-Funded Mobile HPM Weapon to Counter Drone Swarms
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 Great recession reflux amounts to more hunger among seniors A new study that looked at the hunger trends over a 10-year period found that 14.85 percent of seniors in the United States, more than one in seven, face the threat of hunger. This translates into 8 ... more | .. |
  Stunning View of Lyrids and Earth at Night On the night of April 21, the 2012 Lyrid meteor shower peaked in the skies over Earth. While NASA allsky cameras were looking up at the night skies, astronaut Don Pettit aboard the International Spa ... more | .. |
 Philippines goes after sea turtle restaurants The Philippines on Monday said it would form a special task force to go after restaurants selling the meat of protected sea turtles. ... more | .. |
Levels of the Dead Sea causing worry Human activity around the Dead Sea could threaten its existence and cause it to dry up, Israeli scientists say. ... more |
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 Plant growth without light control Plants are dependent on the sun. Sunlight does not only supply them with energy, but also controls their development steps. So-called photoreceptors activate the processes of germination, leaf devel ... more | .. |
 Common fungicide wreaks havoc on freshwater ecosystems Chlorothalonil, one of the world's most common fungicides used pervasively on food crops and golf courses, was lethal to a wide variety of freshwater organisms in a new study, University of South Fl ... more | .. |
 Water supply cut near Tokyo due to toxin contamination The water supply to tens of thousands of households near Tokyo was cut off Saturday after local checks found it was contaminated with a cancer-causing chemical. ... more | .. |
 Increasing predator-friendly land can help farmers reduce costs Having natural habitat in farming areas that supports ladybugs could help increase their abundance in crops where they control pests and help farmers reduce their costs, says a Michigan State Univer ... more |
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