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Scientists Develop New Carbon Accounting Method to Reduce Farmers' Use of Nitrogen FertilizerWashington DC (SPX) Jul 20, 2012 It's summer. For many of us, summer is a time synonymous with fresh corn, one of the major field crops produced in the United States. In 2011, corn was planted on more than 92 million acres in the U.S., helping the nation continue its trend as the world's largest exporter of the crop. Corn is a nitrogen-loving plant. To achieve desired production levels, most U.S. farmers apply synthetic nitrogen fertilizer to their fields every year. Once nitrogen fertilizer hits the ground, however, it's hard to ... read more |
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 Enhanced royal jelly produces jumbo queen bee larvae Scientists have discovered a way to make worker bees produce an enhanced version of royal jelly (RJ) - the super-nutritious substance that dictates whether larvae become workers or queens, and that ... more | .. |
 Refining the tool kit for sustainable fisheries As spatial planning is used increasingly to manage fisheries and other ocean resources, researchers are working to determine the best ways to use and refine the various spatial management tools. Amo ... more | .. |
 Australia aims to become Asia's food bowl The Australian government has released the draft of its first food security plan aimed at positioning the country to become the "food bowl for Asia." ... more | .. |
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  US drought worst in 25 years, food prices to rise A drought scouring the farming heartlands of the United States is the worst for 25 years and could drive up food prices, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Worst drought in five decades ravages US Weather forecasters see no end in sight to the worst US drought in five decades, a blistering heatwave that has wilted crops across America's crucial breadbasket and sent grain prices soaring. ... more | .. |
 Glyphosate-resistant 'superweeds' may be less susceptible to diseases Scientists searching for clues to understand how superweeds obtain resistance to the popular herbicide glyphosate may have been missing a critical piece of information, a Purdue University study sho ... more | .. |
 Helping pigs to digest phosphorus Phosphorus is a vital nutrient for pig growth, but pigs do not always digest it well. Research conducted at the University of Illinois has determined how adding various levels of the enzyme phytase ... more |
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 Worst drought in 5 decades ravages US Weather forecasters see no end in sight to the worst US drought in five decades, a blistering heatwave that has wilted crops across America's crucial breadbasket and sent grain prices soaring. ... more | .. |
  NASA's Landsat Data Continuity Mission Becomes an Observatory Engineers at Orbital Sciences Corporation, Gilbert, Ariz., have installed the Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) instrument back onto to the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) spacecraft. With both ... more | .. |
US suffers worst drought in 56 years The United States is experiencing its widest-spread drought in 56 years, according to a release by the nation's meteorological agency Monday. ... more | .. |
 Tiger kills plantation worker in Indonesia A Sumatran tiger attacked and killed a palm oil plantation worker in Indonesia, a conservation official said Tuesday, underlining the growing problem of human-animal conflicts. ... more |
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 Poisons on public lands put wildlife at risk Rat poison used on illegal marijuana farms may be sickening and killing the fisher, a rare forest carnivore that makes its home in some of the most remote areas of California, according to a team of ... more | .. |
 Scaled-back NBAF and NBAF as designed are options that could meet critical US lab needs It is "imperative" that the U.S. build a large-animal biocontainment laboratory to protect animal and public health, says a new report by the National Research Council. Two options that could meet l ... more | .. |
 Pioneering self-contained 'smart village' offers world model for rural poverty relief An innovative, high-tech "smart village" built in Malaysia provides a potential global template for addressing rural poverty in a sustainable environment, say international experts meeting in Califo ... more | .. |
 A shortcut to sustainable fisheries Up to now, methods to estimate the maximum sustainable yield (MSY) of fish stocks are very complex and, as a consequence, expensive. However, Dr Rainer Froese, biologist with GEOMAR | Helmholtz Cent ... 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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  Global warming harms lakes Global warming also affects lakes. Based on the example of Lake Zurich, researchers from the University of Zurich demonstrate that there is insufficient water turnover in the lake during the winter ... more | .. |
 Sake, soy sauce, and the taming of the microbes We all know that humans have domesticated plants and animals for our sustenance and enjoyment, but we've tamed various microbes as well. Now researchers reporting online in Current Biology, a Cell P ... more | .. |
 Iran drought part of 'soft war' by West: VP The drought in southern Iran is part of a "soft war" launched against the Islamic republic by the West, the Fars news agency quoted an Iranian vice president as saying on Monday. ... more | .. |
 European grain prices rise on global drought European grain market prices climbed on Monday as concern grew over harvests from the world's two biggest breadbaskets, the United States and the Black Sea Basin. ... more |
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 From aflatoxin to sake What do beer, dogs and cats, and corn all have in common? All of them are the end products of the process of domestication. Almost everybody knows that a number of different animals and plants have ... more | .. |
 Tannins in sorghum and benefits focus of university, USDA study They might be called a blessing or a curse - tannins, which are present in certain sorghums, contain health-promoting antioxidant properties, but also provide a bitter taste and decreased protein di ... more | .. |
 Messy experiment cleans up physics mystery of cornstarch Most people buy cornstarch to make custard or gravy, but Scott Waitukaitis and Heinrich Jaeger have used it to solve a longstanding physics problem with a substance known to generations of Dr. Seuss ... more | .. |
  Argentine downturn fails to cut inflation Argentina's economic slowdown is failing to cut inflation, as was widely expected, amid labor disquiet over policies left unchanged by President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. ... 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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 Down on the cacao farm: Sloths thrive at chocolate's source Like many Neotropical fauna, sloths are running out of room to maneuver. As forests in South and Central America are cleared for agriculture and other human uses, populations of these arboreal leaf ... more | .. |
 School days rivalry leads to pocket sommelier Daniel Feder is out to trump a grade school buddy who hit it big with online travel service TripAdvisor. ... more | .. |
France sends emergency anti-locust aid France said this week it is mobilizing emergency efforts to stop locust swarms in Africa's Sahel from spreading farther into drought-stricken Niger and Mali. ... more | .. |
US wineries uncork Internet innovations From iPads in vineyards to virtual tastings on Twitter, the tradition-steeped US wine industry is increasingly turning to Internet Age innovations to improve vintages and profits. ... more |
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 Sustainability of rice landscapes in South East Asia threatened During a meeting in Banaue, The Philippines, scientists from 21 research institutions from Germany, Vietnam, The Philippines, Thailand, UK, Bulgaria and Spain raised several concerns on the future o ... more | .. |
 Climate change means stressed cows may have less milk "Cows are happy in parts of Northern California and not in Florida" is a good way to sum up the findings of new research from the University of Washington, said Yoram Bauman, best known as the "stan ... more | .. |
 Ancient domesticated remains are oldest in southern Africa Researchers have found evidence of the earliest known instance of domesticated caprines (sheep and goats) in southern Africa, dated to the end of the first millennium BC, providing new data to the o ... more | .. |
 IGARSS 2012 - 'Remote Sensing for a Dynamic Earth' One of the most important conferences on geoscience and remote sensing will take place at the International Congress Centre in Munich from 22 to 27 July 2012. The International Geoscience and Remote ... more |
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