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and closing solar powered sunflower umbrellas capture the sun's rays during the day and fold at night releasing stored heat in a continual cycle.
youll look fresh as a daisy. This may be good for those early risers on Black Friday
Poppy, which starts at $198. Beyond that, Coach has added more bags at lower price points
The drinks often contain melatonin, valerian root and rose hips. But relaxation drinks are regulated not by the Food and Drug Administration.
Not all relaxation drinks contain melatonin or valerian though. Blue Cow, for instance, does not. Some brands have a lot of sugar;
which controls the Borden brand and 18 regional dairies selling milk under the names Flav-O-Rich, Dairy Fresh, Velda Farms, Sintons, Cream O Weber, Goldenrod
#Fukushima grows sunflowers to clean up radiation contamination A geiger counter is placed in front of sunflowers in full bloom in Fukushima.
Burning strips of paper swirled into the hot summer sky as they carry the names of the dead above a temple in Fukushima where thousands of sunflowers have been planted to help fight the omnipresent radiation.
and distributing sunflowers and other plants. We plant sunflowers, field mustard, amaranthus and cockscomb, which are believed all to absorb radiation,
#said the monk. So far we have grown at least 200,000 flowers (at this temple) and distributed many more seeds.
At least 8 million sunflowers blooming in Fukushima originated from here.##Some of the 100 volunteers helping him with his project bustled around lighting candles in preparation for Obon, a festival honoring the spirits of the dead.
Sunflowers were used near Chernobyl after the 1986 nuclear accident there to extract radioactive cesium from contaminated ponds nearby.
Cheerful fields of sunflowers in unusual locations, such as unused paddy fields, can now be seen across the area,
I planted the sunflowers from the temple alongside other vegetables hoping they would suck up radiation,
Fischer once worked with a company that trucked bees around the country to pollinate sunflowers in South dakota, almonds in California and other crops in other states.
leaving them as fresh as a daisy in minutes. It works by using ultraviolet light to sterilise the bacteria
Alarming Decline in Bumblebees Found in U s a bumblebee gathers pollen from a sunflower. Four previously abundant species of bumblebee are close to disappearing in the United states,
Hey Goldilocks! You re in the wrong movie. e..He Steampunk puppeteers gone wild...It was all fun
They say that representing Evolva s laboratory-grown flavoring as something similar to vanilla extract from an orchid plant is deceptive,
and sunflower on the ISS, but NASA is now researching how vegetables may be grown in space for consumption.
htm>Dead sea scrolls Made Locally Tests Show</a p></p><p>Adam and eve were kicked out of paradise after eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge the one restriction God placed on them in Eden.</
and popular imagination as the fruit that led humankind down the path of eternal suffering and toil as mortals the fig might actually be the fruit that tempted Adam and eve.</
>.And when Adam and eve realize they' re naked they attempt to hide their shame with fig leafs.</
They found that petunias became slightly more positively charged after a bee visited them according to Scientificamerican.
Stars perform some of the most important work in the cosmos: they manufacture the elements heavier than hydrogen they create planets as part of their own formation
and ranching operation is looking out on a deep green field of sunflower vetch corn clover buckwheat savannah grass and other crops.
Conversely the researchers found no association between Vitamin e an antioxidantâ found in high levels in oils made from safflower sunflower and wheat germ as well as nuts and nut oils.
Translation by Gloria Ferrari from Alcman and the Cosmos of Sparta University of Chicago Press 2008) A key event on Sparta s road to becoming a more militaristic society was its conquest of the land of Messenia
The above photo of Aster Lake by Scott Toste was one of the contest favorites.
Aster Lake is a high alpine lake popular with backpackers and other outdoor enthusiasts for its remote setting perfect spot to commune with giants.
whose smells were said to overpower visitors oethe tuberoses drive us away from Trianon every evening wrote Madame de Maintenon in a letter dated Aug 8 1689. oethe excess of fragrance causes men
On the ground there were prairie grasses as well as members of the lilly orchid and rose families. About 13000 years ago more than three-fourths of the large Ice age animals including woolly mammoths mastodons saber-toothed tigers
Opium poppy gave rise to morphine which revolutionized pain treatment. But the plant is also the source of the highly addictive body-wasting drug heroin.
and pot marigold to treat wounds of the skin. Though there is evidence to support the effectiveness of many herbs these plants aren't regulated by the Food
#The Amazing Mating Dance of the Peacock Spider The animal dances and lifts up its tail-flap which once unfurled resembles an abstract Indian blanket of intense color.
Find a fast-growing plant with a lot of aboveground leafy mass such as mustard sunflowers or tobacco. Plant the crop on soil that contains gold.
Similarly melatonin will enhance herbs with sedative effects such as calamus California poppy catnip hops Jamaican dogwood kava St john's wort skullcap valerian and yerba mansa.
You could also try using cut flowers such as carnations. Prepare the solutions Be sure to label your jars:
and that these new findings should provide further impetus to reduce diesel emissions said study co-author Guy Poppy.
The Goldilocks zone inhabited by western Sierra forests is predicted to move to higher elevations in the coming centuries as climate change shifts California's temperature and precipitation bands.
Stars perform some of the most important work in the cosmos: They manufacture the elements heavier than hydrogen they create planets as part of their own formation
and ice-clinging anemones are among the top new species discovered in the last year.
The species dubbed Edwardsiella andrillae is the first-ever anemone known to live on ice. Transparency is a theme for two other new species. The itsy-bitsy shrimp Liropus minusculus was found in a cave on Santa catalina Island off the coast of California.
and residents transformed them into exquisite goods. Vast agricultural fields where farmers grew crops such as corn squash sunflower little barley
For instance valerian root supplement pills that are sold as an herbal sleep aid have been found to contain valium as it was cheaper for the pill manufacturer to use the drug than the herb he said.
Apart from the presence of macrofossil remains of plants with these mind-altering properties there are artistic depictions of opium poppies for instance
and fungi species including opium poppy deadly nightshade hallucinogenic mushrooms and ergot fungus. However it's not always possible to determine how people used the substances
One of the most revealing items may be a 30-inch-tall (76 centimeters) terracotta figurineknown as the Poppy Goddess.
The figurine found in an almost 3000-year-old cult chamber in Crete depicts a bare-breasted woman with upraised arms and a head bearing three movable hairpins shaped like poppy capsules.
Some examples of foods that contain these fats are salmon trout herring avocados olives walnuts and liquid vegetable oils such as soybean corn safflower canola olive and sunflower.
Guy Poppy, a chemical ecologist from the University of Southampton, UK, agrees that the method should allow farmers to reduce crop damage without eradicating the entire population of pests in a field's ecosystem-allowing biodiversity to remain mostly unchanged.
2009) hosts and webstreams the'Quantum to cosmos'festival in Waterloo, Ontario. www. q2cfestival. com Sound bites That is one of the things that wakes me up in the middle of the night.
Grasshoppers that were exposed to spiders switched from eating protein-rich grasses to munching on several species of sugary goldenrod plants.
Initially, this diet shift was thought to be related to how easy it is for grasshoppers to hide from spiders in the branched and flowering goldenrod.
First, they eat more goldenrod and less grass, changing the ratio of these species in the landscape.
and several non-governmental organizations have followed suit with a campaign of sunflower planting. Nakanishi says that the effort is nonsense,
says palaeontologist Robert Anemone at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo.""The anatomy of these specimens certainly matches that of known Paleocene primates,
says Anemone. The team behind the identification of the fossils point out that flowering plants went through a period of major diversification just
Next, the team placed the insects into an arena with petunias (Petunia integrifolia) and measured the flowers'electrical potentials.
carrot and sunflower that have high numbers of relatives yet to be collected. And it identified some crops, such as sorghum and bananas,
They also carefully caught bees as they were pollinating the flowering plant Delphinium barbeyi (a type of larkspur) and anaesthetised them
Brosi's study measured seed production only in larkspur a plant that is pollinated by several species of bumblebee.
and the topic of conversation the Earth can be considered flat ball egg shaped or maybe from a a great distance a single point in the cosmos.
The good and evil we see On earth is also in the cosmos and what we know of science On earth can
and does explain life in the cosmos as well even in social terms. as Mike explained I didnt even know that some one able to earn $8185 in 1 month on the computer. did you read this link...
or a colony ship to travel the cosmos and simply live in space whilst trying to find another place to live.
Life seeds Earth from the cosmos via comets or other alien visitors with some opinions these visitors being divine.
Or if you'd prefer to invoke the Goldilocks Postulate and want to try something that is just right in the middle:
and perhaps to travel later the cosmos. Our greed never ends lol! democedes Oh I just notice lol.
But if it did it'd have a devastating impact--one that highlights Earth's vulnerability to a tough-to-detect mainstay of the cosmos:
Karel Capek s 1920 play R. U. R. ends with a pair of factory-built lovers seemingly destined to become the new world-populating Adam and eve.
I will pick out all your orchid letters and return them in hopes of your making use of them...
no one else has perceived that my chief interest in my orchid book has been that it was a'flank movement'on the enemy.
and the orchids and species. But I must enquire. By the way one of my chief enemies (the sole one who has annoyed me) namely Owen
I should like to hear what you think about what I say in the last chapter of the orchid book on the meaning and cause of the endless diversity of means for the same general purpose.
When saponins were given to the fish together with broad beans sunflower meal rape and maize gluten meal they did not cause inflammation
Magnetic pollen replicas offer multimodal adhesionresearchers have created magnetic replicas of sunflower pollen grains using a wet chemical layer-by-layer process that applies highly conformal iron oxide coatings.
The spikes inherited from sunflower pollen provide short range adhesion--over nanoscale distances --while the oxide chemistry provides an adhesion mode that operates over much longer distances--up to one millimeter.
and dandelion--before choosing particles from the sunflower (Helianthus annuus). The sunflower pollen grains are nearly spherical
but covered with spikes that can entangle with the hairs on bees'legs or adhere to surfaces via Van der waals forces at nanometer-scale distances Sandhage explained.
They studied replica pollen adhesion to polyvinyl alcohol polyvinyl acetate polystyrene silicon nickel and neodymium-iron-boron--and compared the adhesion properties to those of the original sunflower pollen grains.
A research team led by conservation biologist Miles Silman will launch two different drones to conduct climate research in the region giving a never-before-seen bird's eye view of one of the most difficult locations in the world to study.
Researchers received funding from the National Science Foundation and Wake Forest's Center for Energy Environment and Sustainabilitydrones Deliver a Bird's eye Viewone of the researchers'robots a copter drone relies on eight small propeller units
and using a compatible vegetable oil supplement (rape sunflower and camelina). The changes in ruminal lipid metabolism are based on the differences between plant species in terms of digestion kinetics and microbial flora in the rumen.
Successful species interactions require that the species involved share the same cue said Warren. The cold-adapted A. picea ant species shares temperature cues with Anemone americana a common early spring wildflower that drops
and distribution of the bee species Braunsapis puangensis in the Suva area of Fiji and examine its association with the invasive creeping daisy Sphagneticola trilobata.
The paper suggests that the invasive creeping daisy could in fact have a positive influence on a wild bee pollinator species
and grazing animals affect the characteristics of natural plant populations these researchers studied bird's eye primrose populations in alvar grasslands on the Baltic island of Ãand.
as it is known to be attractive to bees and also four dahlias. All the plants studied had to be popular garden plants be widely
and dahlias are from Mexico.##oehelping bees in your garden is a no-brainer. Flowers that attract bees are
Although North america isn't known as a hotspot for crop plant diversity the inventory uncovered nearly 4600 CWR in the United states including close relatives of globally important food crops such as sunflower bean sweet potato and strawberry.
which are formed in dusty nurseries throughout the cosmos. But how the dust interacts with hydrogen
Apple Dogwood Pear Plum Begonia flower#¢Plants and Flowers: Daffodil Lilac Magnolia Rose Sunflowerbe Quick to Clean--Mold and pollen can collect on fallen leaves.
and is crucial for understanding our place in the cosmos through the vast sweep of time--where we've come from where we're currently located
Ladies and gentlemen, get ready to taste Snapdragon and Rubyfrostafter years of development and consumer testing as NY1 and NY2 Cornell University and New york Apple Growers have given the hottest new apples in the Empire state names worthy of their unique assets:
Snapdragon and Rubyfrost. The names were revealed this afternoon by Jeff Crist vice chairman of the NYAG board of directors at the annual Fruit Field days at the New york state Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva where Cornell breeder
Snapdragon is a great name for this apple because consumers found its crispy texture and sweet flavor
Snapdragon formerly NY1 gets its juicy crispness from its Honeycrisp parent and it has a spicy-sweet flavor that was a big hit with taste testers.
I remember my very first bite of Snapdragon. The taste the crispness and the juiciness impressed us Brown said.
because although Snapdragon's harvest window starts relatively early--in late September--its long storage
but intrepid consumers can search out Snapdragon and Rubyfrost at select NYAG farm stands across the state.
The study to be published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences focused on the interactions between bumblebees and larkspur wildflowers in Colorado's Rocky mountains.
The experiments focused on the interactions of the insects with larkspurs dark-purple wildflowers that are visited by 10 of the of the 11 bumblebee species there.
Larkspurs produced about one-third fewer seeds when one of the bumblebee species was removed compared to the larkspurs in the control groups.
The small change in the level of competition made the remaining bees more likely to'cheat'on the larkspur Briggs says.
While previous research has shown how competition drives specialization within a species the bumblebee study is one of the first to link this mechanism back to the broader functioning of an ecosystem.
Although renowned for their ability to chew through a gardener's prize petunias or strawberry patch still relatively little is known about the effect these munching molluscs have on large scale grassland conservation projects.
On the bright side said Dr Barlow the slugs did not like the seedlings of some of the desirable wildflowers such as wood cranesbill rough hawkbit and greater burnet.
or break environmental collective actionssustainability programs are a Goldilocks proposition--some groups are too big some are too small
and professor of biology at Saint joseph's University advises that it's best to investigate the plant that's choking your columbines
wheat maize rice barley rye millet sorghum soybean sunflower potato cassava sugarcane sugar beet oil palm rapeseed (canola) and groundnut (peanut.
They found that plantings of sweet alyssum attracted a host of spiders and predator bugs that in turn preyed on woolly apple aphids a pest that growers often control with chemical sprays.
To select an appropriate flower for the study the researchers screened six candidates including marigolds and zinnias.
Researchers compared plots of apple trees with sweet alyssum to plots without flowers. While the sweet alyssum attracted hoverflies as desired Gontijo
and colleagues found few hoverfly larvae showing that the hoverflies had only a marginal effect on the aphid population.
when the researchers found a diverse community of spiders and predatory insects in the plots with sweet alyssum.
The scientists sprayed protein markers on the sweet alyssum and later captured insects and spiders at a distance from the flower plots.
The researchers state that the use of sweet alyssum for biological control can be integrated easily with standard orchard-management practices
They found that plantings of sweet alyssum attracted a host of spiders and predator bugs that in turn preyed on woolly apple aphids a pest that growers often control with chemical sprays.
To select an appropriate flower for the study the researchers screened six candidates including marigolds and zinnias.
Researchers compared plots of apple trees with sweet alyssum to plots without flowers. While the sweet alyssum attracted hoverflies as desired Gontijo
and colleagues found few hoverfly larvae showing that the hoverflies had only a marginal effect on the aphid population.
when the researchers found a diverse community of spiders and predatory insects in the plots with sweet alyssum.
The scientists sprayed protein markers on the sweet alyssum and later captured insects and spiders at a distance from the flower plots.
The researchers state that the use of sweet alyssum for biological control can be integrated easily with standard orchard-management practices
#New non-GM technology platform for genetic improvement of sunflower oilseed cropscientists have developed techniques for the genetic improvement of sunflowers using a non-GMO based approach.
The new technology platform can harness the plant's own genes to improve characteristics of sunflower develop genetic traits
Among oilseed crops sunflowers are one of the most important sources of edible vegetable oil for human consumption worldwide.
Sunflower and other oilseed crops are the source of the vast majority of vegetable oil used for cooking and food processing.
Over the centuries the sunflower has been cultivated for traits such as yield. However along the way many useful genetic variations have been lost.
This new technology allows us to pinpoint key genetic information relating to various useful traits in the sunflower including wild sunflower species. It gives us a method to quickly create variability for further breeding to enhance the quantity quality and natural
soybean sunflower tobacco and tomato. The plant lineage that includes the sacred lotus forms a separate branch of the eudicot family tree
including close relatives of globally important food crops such as sunflower bean sweet potato and strawberry. The findings which were published today (Apr 29) in the journal Crop science are good news for plant breeders who've relied increasingly in recent years on the wild kin of domesticated crops as new sources of disease resistance drought tolerance
For instance a wild sunflower species that breeders have used to restore fertility and create salt tolerance in cultivated sunflower is imperiled also globally.
Another 62 taxa in the inventory are listed under the U s. Endangered Species Act. In fact an estimated 30 percent of U s. plant species are now of conservation concern says Khoury who is also a doctoral student at Wageningen University in The netherlands.
U s. wild relatives of the world's most important food crops--including strawberry sunflower sweet potato bean stone fruits
Jaskot says the Green peas are exciting candidates to help astronomers understand a major milestone in the development of the cosmos 13 billion years ago.
One of the plants Marlin studied was Claytonia virginica commonly known as'spring beauty.''We were interested very in Claytonia virginica
because it is the plant in the network currently visited by the greatest diversity of bees Knight said.
and Knight picked six bee species that frequently visited Claytonia virginica two named by Robertson and washed Robertson's archival specimens of those bees Marlin's specimens and their own.
The fraction of the pollen on the bee contributed by Claytonia virginica was highest in Robertson's time lower in Marlin's time and much lower in 2010.
By placing electrodes in the stems of petunias the researchers showed that when a bee lands the flower's potential changes
Venation patterns--or lines of color on flower petals--are common in Antirrhinum flowers commonly known as snapdragons.
They exposed bees who had seen not flowers before to veined ivory and red types of snapdragon flowers.
Are humans alone in the cosmos and is our life-sustaining world unique? One of the earliest writers to speculate about exoplanets was the Italian philosopher
Furthermore the New zealand Kunzea species provide an important habitat for a wealth of endemic geckos orchids
With their attractive purple and pink flowers gentians are cultivated popular as garden plants. The Pine Barrens gentian species (Gentiana autumnalis) thrives after its ecosystem has experienced disturbance as one of the earliest species to begin re-inhabiting empty spaces--a phase known as early succession.
But the gentian and other early successional species in the Pine Barrens are growing rare because of human intervention:
suppressing wildfires which are the most common natural disturbance in the area. The Pine Barrens of New jersey are second only to California in the frequency of wildfires.
but means there are far fewer disturbed places where gentians prefer to grow. Is mowing--including roadside mowing--an effective replacement for wildfires to help sustain the Pine Barrens gentian population?
That is one of the questions Rebozo is addressing in research he will present at the Ecological Society of America meeting on Aug 13.
Rebozo also identified sites where gentians grow unmanaged or mowed including one mowed roadside site where gentians happened to grow.
Rebozo found that where mowing and burning disturbances were introduced the gentians responded with increased plant density (more than doubled at some sites) flowering percentage
and patch size--often within one year of the disturbance. Prescribed burns had an even stronger positive impact on gentian growth
and reproduction than mowing did. With a burn comes not only clearing of vegetation but also an influx of nutrients Rebozo said.
'Juncus effuses'Frenzy'Helianthus angustifolius (swamp sunflower) Helianthus angustfolius'First Light 'and Eupatorium purpureum subsp. maculatum (Joe pye weed) performed well in the experiments
and Roberto Lopez from Purdue University designed a series of lighting experiments on plugs of Antirrhinum Catharanthus Celosia Impatiens Pelargonium Petunia Tagetes Salvia and Viola.
Results showed that the height of Catharanthus Celosia Impatiens Petunia Tagetes Salvia and Viola was 31%29%31%55%20%9%and 35%shorter respectively for seedlings grown under 85:15 red:
The quality index was significantly higher for Petunia Salvia and Viola under 85:15 70:30 and 100:0 red:
Long flowers like honeysuckle or columbine are too deep for short-tongued bees. But longer isn't always better;
For northern soybean producers semideterminate soybean plants could represent a Goldilocks cultivar a just right alternative between the two.
Herbs such as asters violets and goldenrods increased from about 20 percent to 32 percent cover
The fungus causes charcoal rot in about 500 other host plants including corn sorghum sunflower and other important crops.
When the lots are left unmowed the common perennial plants that replace ragweed include goldenrod milkweed Kentucky bluegrass chicory and aster.
The work was conducted at Daisy Lake on the outskirts of the industrial city of Sudbury in Ontario Canada.
Areas of Daisy Lake closest to the nickel smelt-works remain bare--dirt and rock instead of the once lush forest.
and snowdrop lectin. Feeding acute and chronic doses to honeybees--beyond the levels they would ever experience in the field--the team found it had only a very slight effect on the bees'survival and no measurable effect at all on their learning and memory.
During the study the bees were exposed to varying concentrations of the spider/snowdrop bio-pesticide over a period of seven days.
This is an oral pesticide so unlike some that get absorbed through the exoskeleton the spider/snowdrop recombinant protein has to be ingested by the insects.
ANDRILL Anemone: Discovery on Ice Edwardsiella andrillae Location: Antarctica A species of sea anemone living under a glacier on the Ross Ice shelf in Antarctica raises questions by its very existence.
or more times higher than those of European and Scandinavian countries that consume sunflower and olive oil Cook-Mills noted.
#How orchid bees find their personal scent, attract matesa fragrant perfume has brought many a man and many a woman together.
Orchid bees too appear to rely on scent when it comes to choosing a partner. In the course of their lives the males compile a species-specific bouquet that they store in the pockets on their hind legs.
Each orchid bee species prefers a different type of treewhen releasing their bouquet orchid bees select a tree trunk as the centre of their territory.
Together with a student team she analysed the favourite trees of several orchid bee species in Costa rica.
Getting energy for exhausting flightsthe Bochum biologist also studies the orchid bees'flight performance. The small insects do actually fly over distances of 50 kilometres.
Orchids eucalyptus and fecesorchid bees live in Central and South america and live up to three months on average. Members of different species are interested in different scents.
Orchid flowers are among the most popular sources but eucalyptus-scented eucalyptol also frequently contributes to the blend.
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