Month: April 2009

How much of America’s croplands are being farmed using conservation tillage? Scientists are developing techniques…

Goats are tough, spirited animals, but they’re no match for scrapie, a form of transmissible…

Everyday foods, beverages, and spices contain healthful compounds that help us fight harmful inflammation. And,…

Scientists have uncovered genetic evidence about the evolutionary path that transformed Salmonella enteritidis from an…

Scientists have found environmentally and economically sound uses for the byproducts of biofuel production.

Astronomers have announced plans to build an ultra-stable, high-precision spectrograph for the Science and Technology…

‘Sigmoids’ are S-shaped structures found in the outer atmosphere of the Sun (the corona), seen…

Astronomers have discovered one of the coolest sub-stellar bodies ever found outside our own solar…

Pancreatic cancer remains one of the deadliest cancers, but researchers may have found a combination…

Researchers may have uncovered why lung cancer afflicts some smokers and not others.