Science News has a series of studies that show rising CO2 levels and other climate disturbances are taking minerals and vitamins out of our vegetable crops:
… Read the rest “Climate change is stealing nutrients from food.”The idea that surging carbon
New Scientist reports with hope for celiac-disease sufferers on a new breed of wheat that’s genetically modified not to produce inflammation-causing gluten:
… Read the rest “GMO wheat is gluten free. (Hard choices, right?)”Gluten is the general
Science Daily has one for the “Yeah. Great.” file – research from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health showing that the rising carbon dioxide levels linked … Read the rest “Rising CO2 levels mean we’ll get less protein from our grain crops.”
Might look pretty in a dish, but you don’t want to find this on your crops – it’s bad news.
This image, taken by Scott Bauer, is from the USDA Agricultural… Read the rest “Science Art: Cultures of a destructive mold called Phomopsis, by USDA-ARS”
Nature finds hope for the future in war-torn Syria, where a seed-bank dedicated to preserve our ancient plants (which could save our crops from climate change) is being rebuilt in Lebanon… Read the rest “Rescuing the seeds of Aleppo”
Nature analyzes the new World Health Organization (WHO) determination that Roundup weedkiller causes cancer:
… Read the rest “So, one of the most common household chemicals is killing you. Surprise!”The cancer-research arm of the World Health Organization last week announced
Modern Farmer reports on ongoing research that’s found that cows make more milk when listening to R.E.M. and Simon & Garfunkel:
… Read the rest “Like a Bridge Over Troubled Cream… no, wait. South Central Skim? *Nightmilking*?”Many dairies in the U.S. play either country
Miami-raised poet and engineer Richard Blanco was selected to write a poem for today’s presidential inauguration.
It begins and ends with the sky.
Here’s what he read:
… Read the rest “Science Art: “One Today,” by Richard Blanco”One
Well, maybe not *directly*… but Science Daily explains how scientists are watching Arabidopsis thaliana, a fast-growing, globally found weed known as mouse-eared cress, to learn… Read the rest “The weed that can feed the world.”
SONG: “This Stupid War.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Pesticide exposure linked to brain changes:… Read the rest “SONG: “This Stupid War””
A new U.N. report (over at Scientific American) shows we’re actually wasting 300 million Hummer H2s’ weight of food every year:
… Read the rest “Cleaning the world’s plate.”What is more interesting is how the food is wasted
PhysOrg hops on the in-vitro meat bandwagon with a study that concludes lab-grown meat will lower greenhouse gas emissions by 96 percent:
… Read the rest “Test-tube steak will save Earth.”The analysis, carried out by scientists from Oxford
It must be strange to work in a facility like the ones Sky News just reported on – the places where genetically modified cows produce human breast milk:
… Read the rest “Mother cow.”The milk produced by the transgenic
No, not like that. PhysOrg reveals the way lightning makes the mushrooms grow:
… Read the rest “Zap goes the mushroom.”A four-year study carried out at Iwate University in northern Japan on ten species of mushroom (so far) has
Purdue University researchers have devised a menu for a mission to Mars (or further) – fresh strawberries grown in space:
… Read the rest “Space berries!”Cary Mitchell, professor of horticulture, and Gioia Massa,
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