• Smart Shopping

    Updated: 2010-06-28 18:21:26
    Put a little thought into your purchases.  There may be green alternatives available for just about everything we buy.  For example, there are shampoos and conditioners that use all-natural ingredients (rather than chemicals you can’t even pronounce).  The natural counterparts to these synthetics are better for you while you wash, and better for the environment [...]

  • Linkage 6/25: Cell Phone Cancer Debunked Again

    Updated: 2010-06-25 15:32:44
    Editor’s note: I will be on vacation next week, and so will the blog. A tanner ScienceLife will return on July 6th. People often worry that the latest ubiquitous technology is changing or harming them, and the link between cell phones and cancer is a treasured old superstition at this point. But chalk up another strike [...]

  • Plants demonstrate complex ability to integrate information

    Updated: 2010-06-25 12:23:08
    A University of Alberta research team has discovered that a plant's strategy to capture nutrients in the soil is the result of integration of different types of information. U of A ecologist J.C. Cahill says the plant's strategy mirrors the daily risk-versus-reward dilemmas that animals experience in their quest for food........

  • Genetics in bloom

    Updated: 2010-06-25 12:23:08
    Some of the molecular machinery that governs flower formation has been uncovered in the daisy-like Gerbera plants. Scientists writing in the open access journal BMC Plant Biology have published a pair of articles detailing how the complex Gerbera inflorescence is formed and how this process differs from other model plants, such as the more simple flowers of Arabidopsis species........

  • Visit to Daikin Manufacturing Plant – Bruges, Belgium

    Updated: 2010-06-23 20:37:14

  • Cancer Survivors Day 2010

    Updated: 2010-06-17 16:56:38
    With all the talk of tomorrow’s better cancer treatments, it’s important occasionally to remember that millions of people have been treated with successfully with today’s - and yesterday’s - medicine. For someone newly diagnosed with cancer, it’s inspiring to hear the stories of those who have fought the disease and survived, a helpful dose of [...]

  • Sequencing the salmon genome

    Updated: 2010-06-15 05:38:06
    The economically important, environmentally sensitive Atlantic salmon species is one step closer to having its genome fully sequenced, thanks to an international collaboration involving researchers, funding agencies and industry from Canada, Chile and Norway. Genome BC partnered with the Chilean Economic Development Agency, InnovaChile, Norwegian Research Council, Norwegian Fishery and Aquaculture Industry Research Fund to form the International Cooperation to Sequence the Atlantic Salmon Genome (the Cooperation)........

  • Feed the Birds

    Updated: 2010-06-03 18:43:01
    Somewhere, a Whole Foods store is sighing. A study published in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture has questioned whether organic food is as nutritional as it’s been toted. And the evidence? From the birds. The three-year study found that wild birds preferred conventional seed over organic, likely due to [...]

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