Researchers from the John Innes Centre in Norwich, Great Britain, have made these cool tomatoes that are genetically enhanced and modified so they are rich in anthocyanins. Anthicyanins is an antioxidants. These tomatoes were added to the diet of cancer-prone mice and helped them live signifgantly longer. In order to obtain fruit particularly rich in anthocyanins, that [...]
Entries from October 27th, 2008
Purple tomatoes: The richness of antioxidants against tumors
October 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Biology
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Catching the Rainbow= Better Solar Energy
October 24th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Chemistry
Chemists at the University of Ohio State have found a way to absorb all the energy contained in sunlinght. They have created a hybrid material that allows them to capture the entire color spectrum, therefore making it easier to absorb all the energy contained in sunlight. With this new material they will be able to [...]
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Dolphin coordination against predators
October 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Biology
Spinner dolphins have amazing teamwork for attacking prey but scientists have found that their synchronization is even more complex than they realized and is used as a strategy to gain their energy intake. Scientists have studied that dolphins have a technique to enclose their prey, and they circle their “food” to confuse them. What is [...]
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Is The Grass Really Greener On The Other Side?
October 23rd, 2008 · 2 Comments · Biology
Scientists have been attempting to find new, eco-friendly fuel sources for years. Cars run by electricity, fuel made out of grease from food, and even cars that run on water. Now scientists are trying to make a new biofuel from grass. This experiment consists of over eighty acres of different grass varieties, spread out over eleven counties of New York. Scientists [...]
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2nd Virgin Birth By Shark Confirmed???!!!
October 23rd, 2008 · 3 Comments · Biology
Yes, you read the title correctly. A female shark did give birth to a baby shark…. and the baby got eaten right away. This has only been known to happen once before. It happened in a zoo in Omaha Nebraska. Scientists believe that this case was no fluke and that it is quite possible that sharks of [...]
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Unique Properties Of Boron Harnessed To Develop New Drugs And Diagnostics
October 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Chemistry
Chemists are almost able to use the element Boron to make drugs that will be helpful to our society. These drugs are hoped to cure cancer and other horrible diseases. All life is said to ultimately come from the element carbon. Carbon is right beside boron in the periodic table of elements. Boron is somewhat [...]
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Solar Energy Advances
October 23rd, 2008 · 2 Comments · Chemistry
Everyone’s heard of solar energy, but now, thanks to chemists at Ohio Stat University, it is even more efficient. Before, they encountered two major problems: absorbing all of the sunlight and being fast enough to capture all of the electrons. These chemists along with chemists from Taiwan combined a conductive plastic with metal to overcome [...]
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Mircoscope power!!!!!
October 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Biology
A microscope equivalent to the Hubble telescope has been installed at the Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy at McMaster. It is said to be the most powerful and advanced electron microscope. It is called the Titan 80-300 and has been put to use already. The university is the first university with a microscope of this [...]
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World’s Smallest Storage Space…. the Nuclues of an Atom
October 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Chemistry
That is right, you have read correctly. The nucleus of an atom as a place to store information from a computer! Chemists have made a tiny, but significant, breakthrough in storing information on the nucleus of an atom. They have made information last a little longer then a second on the nyucleus of an atom. [...]
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Giant Leaps to See Microscopic Structures
October 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Chemistry
In the last few chapters in Chemistry, we focused on atoms and protons and such. We also focused on how, for not being able to see the particles, scientists did an amazing job of figuring out how the particles were put together. This article points out that with today’s technology we are able to see [...]
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