Twin-row soybean production is becoming a popular growing technique for soybean producers. An agricultural scientists…
Month: August 2011
Maintaining exercise when the cardiac rehab is complete
Researchers have found that patients who have completed cardiac rehabilitation and who receive telephone counseling…
Algorithm developed to improve remote electrocardiography
Engineers and physicians have developed an award-winning algorithm that improves the effectiveness of ECGs.
Investments in pastoralism offer best hope for combating droughts in Africa’s drylands
As hunger spreads among more than 12 million people in the Horn of Africa, a…
Two-year-old children understand complex grammar
Psychologists in the UK have found that children as young as two years old have…
Research vessel Polarstern at North Pole
On Aug. 22, 2011, the research icebreaker Polarstern reached the North Pole. The aim of…
Human gait could soon power portable electronics
In a new paper, researchers describe a new energy-harvesting technology that promises to dramatically reduce…
Ancient wild horses help unlock past
An international team of researchers has used ancient DNA to produce compelling evidence that the…
Ancient ‘daddy long legs’ revealed in 3-D models
Two ancient types of harvestmen, or ‘daddy long legs,’ which skittered around forests more than…
Stem cell study offers hope for Parkinson’s patients
Scientists have for the first time generated stem cells from one of the most rapidly…