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Most widely used organic pesticide requires help to kill

...of the most important and environmentally friendly weapons in the human arsenal against insect pests has significant implications not only for the control of insects in agriculture, forestry and human health, but for understanding microbial disease in humans and other animals. "The take-home message is tha...

Plutonium or greenhouse gases? Weighing the energy options

... each year and a greatly increased risk of nuclear weapons proliferation or diversion of nuclear material int...or global warming, the issues of nuclear waste and weapons proliferation are footnotes in the discussion," said Ewing, who is the Donald R. Peacor Collegiate P...

MIT designs portable 'lab on a chip'

...f they have been exposed to biological or chemical weapons could soon be much faster and easier, thanks to MI...battlefield. If exposure to chemical or biological weapons were suspected, the device could automatically and rapidly test a miniscule blood sample, rather tha...

'Hidden-hero' microbes in soil, water may help naturally clean toxic sites

...s Y-12 National Security Complex, toxic waste from weapons manufacturing at the facility between 1951 and 1983 leaches into groundwater that extends in radioactive plumes for miles from the contaminated site. But soon, Florida State University Associate Professor Joel Kostka and his FSU oceanography depart...

Herpes infection may be symbiotic, help beat back some bacteria

...for invaders with their eyes wide open and defense weapons ready." Other scientists previously had shown that interferon gamma helps the immune system fight off some strains of bacteria. This led Virgin and his colleagues to test herpes-infected mice with exposure to the bacteria Yersinia pestis, which ca...

Massive herds of animals found to still exist in Southern Sudan

...h of the migration corridors. Widespread automatic weapons used during the conflict are now being used by unauthorized individuals for poaching and commercial, unsustainable hunting. The international aid community is building roads, hospitals, schools and commercial networks in the area without determining ...

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