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Illuminating the dark side of plants

...ew York Botanical Garden Press and Springer, is an indispensable resource for hikers, gardeners, parents of small children, pet owners, physicians, nurses, and veterinarians. Its handsome and information-packed presentation will also appeal to everyone who loves plants or collects books about plants. Lewis R. ...

Satellites shed light on global warming

... these phenomena - and satellites provide both the indispensable validation of the theoretical hypotheses and the stimulus for new ideas," Cipollini said. Sea surface temperature (SST) is one of the most stable of several geographical variables which, when determined globally, helps diagnose the state of the E...

Researchers discover that sheep need retroviruses for reproduction

...olution of the placenta in mammals and then became indispensable for pregnancy, and thus may be why they are expressed in the placenta of many mammals," he said. "The enJSRVs arose from ancient infections of small ruminants during their evolution," said. Dr. Massimo Palmarini, a virologist at The Universit...

Tastier tomatoes in the future?

...oes furthermore contain a lot of vitamins C and E, indispensable for human nourishment. But after centuries of cultivation for shape, colour, and other useful qualities, our cultured tomatoes today are of small genetic diversity, in comparison with wild types. This has affected the taste and health value of the fr...

New battery technology helps stimulate nerves

...rs, the tiny batteries that power implantables are indispensable in everything from pacemakers to the electronic stimulators that help restore function in the brains of Parkinson's patients. But lithium batteries don't last forever and new surgery to maintain many devices seeded into the body is required, as it i...

Examination of internal 'wiring' of yeast, worm, and fly reveals conserved circuits

... that protein-interaction studies will soon become indispensable tools for biologists seeking a better understanding of all cellular functions. He said that just as a species evolved new proteins to give it a selective advantage, it also could have evolved a new combination of existing proteins. Such novel arrange...

Devising Nano Vision for an Optical Microscope

...extend the technology’s 400-year-long record as an indispensable imaging and measurement tool well into the expanding realm of nanotechnology. Called phase-sensitive, scatter-field optical imaging, the computer-intensive technique under development at NIST uses a set of dynamically engineered light waves optimize...

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