and we are did lucky it not kick off a total snowball earth. We are the countering force.
Dr. Yablokov found ONE MILLION deaths due to Chernobyl. 5. Dr. Wing found that lung cancers rose dramatically in people exposed to the Three Mile Island radiation plume. 6. Dr. Gould
except for the poor time traveller that was trapped back then due to the EMP of that sucker...
Rotting vegetable and animal matter offal and garbage were burned. The life and habits of the men were regulated carefully Government dining halls furnished good meals well cooked
and protected by screens; sleeping quarters were clean and neatly screened and comfortable; the hours of rest
and like Alice tailing the white rabbit through Wonderland he discovered an upside-down world almost cartoonish in its horrors.
Primitive grinders reduced those bits to lentil-size fragments which children then sifted through and sorted by color.
and when you burn them you get a whole cocktail of cancer-causing stuff. Puckett estimated that just more than half of the material processed in Guiyu actually got recycled judging from the tons of plastic leaded glass and burned circuit boards discarded near waterways and in open fields.
and two corrugated rollers grab the cars pancake them and suck them into a 5000-horsepower hammer mill where 16 free-swinging 400-pound steel hammers spin 500 rpms around a rotor unleashing hell.
and extruded into spaghetti-like strands. Those are sliced into mustard seed ize pellets the product MBA sells to its customers.
That s all Biddle will tell me. He won t explain how the separation processes work.
He s attending a dinner hosted by the Climate Change Forum ith guest ministers of trade
and environment from several countries nd he s having lunch with Britain s head of green economy in the department for economic growth.
Steel when it burns it s like spaghetti says B. J. Yeh the technical services director for APA he Engineered Wood Association.
Called the Timber Tower Research Project it reimagines Chicago s 42-story Dewitt Chestnut apartment tower
Nitrogen that finds its way into natural ecosystems can disrupt the cycling of nutrients in soil promote algal overgrowth
and ten percent of all the stored grains worldwide mainly corn wheat sorghum rice and beans. Until five years ago the main fumigation technique and pest control inside warehouses
In Mexico companies with large grain and flour warehouses already use this technology. Thanks to this technological innovations and the business plan created with the help of the Mexico-United Estates Foundation for Science (FUMEC) the Mexican enterprise that had 10 employees in 2008 today counts with 73 permanent employees and 20
#First look at complete sorghum genome may usher in new uses for food and fuelalthough sorghum lines underwent adaptation to be grown in temperate climates decades ago a University of Illinois researcher said he
and his team have completed the first comprehensive genomic analysis of the molecular changes behind that adaptation.
Patrick Brown an assistant professor in plant breeding and genetics said having a complete characterization of the locations (loci) affecting specific traits will speed up the adaptation of sorghum and other related grasses to new production
I hoping to use the sorghum findings as a launching pad for working with complex genomes of other feedstocks.
To adapt the drought-resistant tropical sorghum to temperate climates Brown explained that sorghum lines were converted over the years by selecting
The researchers used a new technique called genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) to map genetic differences in 1160 sorghum lines.
Part of the reason for caring about all of that now is that up to this point sorghum has mostly been grown for grain.
But now there is a lot of interest in using sorghum for other things such as growing sweet sorghum in areas where they grow sugarcane and growing biomass sorghum for bioenergy through combustion or cellulosic technology.
We'll basically be breed able to all these sorghum types more easily and use the genes that we bred for in grain sorghum over the last hundred years and move them into sweet sorghum and biomass sorghum.
We think that finding those genes is going to be said critical he. Even with this complete genetic map Brown said the research is still not at the end point.
Over here we've got exotic sorghum which hasn't been improved at all yet it's where most of the genetic diversity is.
or biomass sorghum researchers will need to bring in some of the genes from grain sorghum for traits like seed quality or early-season vigor.
Most of this sorghum now goes to chicken feed or ethanol in the United states. We do have a collaboration with Markus Pauly an EBI researcher at Berkeley who is looking at the composition of sorghum.
But the bigger problem with biomass sorghum right now is the moisture content of the biomass.
Unlike miscanthus or switchgrass where you can go in and harvest in February when it's pretty much bone dry and all the nitrogen has already been moved back down underground sorghum doesn't work that way Brown said.
Because biomass sorghum is grown annually growing until frost comes when it is harvested it has a high moisture content.
When we cut it down there's tons of biomass. I don't know that there's anything else that can match it in the area
For the existing cellulosic idea as it stands now that is not very useful he said That's one of the roadblocks to biomass sorghum right now he said.
Right now we're using sorghum as a model--maybe we can find sorghum genes that we can also tinker with in miscanthus
and improvements there are other value-added opportunities for sorghum grain. It's not quite as nutritious as corn
Another gene found shows that sorghum produces a huge amount of antioxidant in the outer layer of the grain.
The yield of sorghum hybrids with those traits aren't quite what they need to be yet.
It has enormous potential to help feed more people in many of the poorer parts of the world
The silicon-palladium sandwiches rest upon a thin layer of aluminum that combines with a base layer of p-doped silicon to act as a diode.
and access to a more nutritious diet Hinde said. Shorter lactation periods could mean shorter gaps between pregnancies and a higher rate of reproduction.
David Bishop Dominic Hare and Philip Doble University of Technology Sydney Australia. The work was funded by the U s. Environmental protection agency U s. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences U s. National Science Foundation Australian National Health and Medical Research Council Australian
Potential food source derived from non-food plantsa team of Virginia Tech researchers has succeeded in transforming cellulose into starch a process that has the potential to provide a previously untapped nutrient source from plants not traditionally though of as food crops.
Starch is one of the most important components of the human diet and provides 20-40 percent of our daily caloric intake.
Besides serving as a food source the starch can be used in the manufacture of edible clear films for biodegradable food packaging Zhang said.
The new approach takes cellulose from non-food plant material such as corn stover converts about 30%to amylose
Corn stover consists of the stem leaves and husk of the corn plant remaining after ears of corn are harvested.
and people think of a new twist on The Local Dish the stew that's the quintessence of southern Louisiana cooking.
what the scientists call a Group of Uniform Materials Based on Organic Salts (GUMBOS) and the nanogumbos materials--particles so small that 100000 could fit across the width of a human hair.
The organic salts used to make GUMBOS are not the familiar organic sea salt products sold for cooking and other uses.
Some organic salts are common but unseen players in everyday life. Potassium bitartrate for instance forms naturally as wine ferments trolamine salicylate is an ingredient in some sunscreens
and cosmetic skin creams and monosodium glutamate is used a food additive to enhance the flavor of some foods.
and on the development of many innovative methods over the course of his career Warner will receive the ACS Award in Analytical Chemistry sponsored by the Battelle Memorial Institute on April 9.
Catalyzing more sugars from biomasscatalysis may initiate almost all modern industrial manufacturing processes but catalytic activity on solid surfaces is understood poorly.
This is especially true for the cellulase enzymes used to release fermentable sugars from cellulosic biomass for the production of advanced biofuels.
technique called PALM--for Photo-Activated Localization Microscopy--the researchers have found a way to improve the collective catalytic activity of enzyme cocktails that can boost the yields of sugars for making fuels.
Increasing the sugar yields from cellulosic biomass to help bring down biofuel production costs is essential for the widespread commercial adoption of these fuels.
The enzymatic breakdown of cellulosic biomass into fermentable sugars has been the Achilles heel of biofuels a key economic bottleneck says chemical engineer Harvey Blanch one of the leaders of this research.
Synthesized from the sugars in the cellulosic biomass of grasses other non-food crops and agricultural waste advanced biofuels represent a sustainable nonpolluting source of transportation fuel that would also generate domestic jobs and revenue.
Unlike the simple starch-based glucose sugars in corn and other grains the sugars in cellulosic biomass are complex polysaccharides that must be extricated from a tough polymer called lignin
Because individual cellulases interact preferentially with cellulose structures based on distinct structural motifs saccharification is carried out with mixtures of cellulase enzymes--called enzyme cocktails.
The key to this exciting development is that Zhang is using the second most prevalent sugar in plants to produce this hydrogen he said.
To liberate the hydrogen Virginia Tech scientists separated a number of enzymes from their native microorganisms to create a customized enzyme cocktail that does not occur in nature.
Other processes that convert sugar into biofuels such as ethanol and butanol always have energy efficiencies of less than 100 percent resulting in an energy penalty.
and enter the blood often leading to the spread of cancer to other parts of the body.
and their invasiveness in a tissue culture dish doctors may be able to quickly adjust their treatment plans in response We are optimistic that the use of our Nanovelcro CTC technology will revolutionize prostate cancer treatment.
But Boal said part of that equation is a landscape where the chickens have a lot of habitat.
or other human activity the chickens just won't said use Boal. Because we've pieced up the habitat so much
They are finding success using the byproducts of biofuels made from corn stover wheat straw and rice straw.
and some cellulose in it but it's not really a feed material anymore Riding said.
and corn stover can be used for making cellulosic ethanol. Cellulosic ethanol byproducts then can be added to cement to strengthen concrete.
#Decoys could blunt spread of ash-killing beetlesas the emerald ash borer ravages North american ash trees threatening the trees'very survival a team of entomologists
and engineers may have found a way to prevent the spread of the pests. Emerald ash borers (EABS) a type of beetle native to Asia first appeared in the U s. about 20 years ago.
but their larvae feed on the ash trees'sap effectively killing the trees by depriving trees of their nourishment.
Thomas C. Baker Distinguished Professor of Entomology at Penn State knew that the male EAB locates a mate by flying over an ash tree finding a female by identifying her green wings
Baker then learned that Lakhtakia was able to replicate certain biological materials such as fly eyes and butterfly wings.
The researchers were able to create a color similar to the emerald ash borer's green wings by layering different types of polymer.
By slowly starving them of nutrients and/or oxygen through successive generations they found that in the absence of tetracycline both microbes dumped the resistance plasmid though not entirely in the case of E coli.
#Omega-3-rich ground beef available soonthanks to Kansas State university research part of a healthy diet can include a hamburger rich with omega-3 fatty acids.
Jim Drouillard professor of animal sciences and industry developed a technique that enriches ground beef with omega-3 fatty acids--fatty acids that have been shown to reduce heart disease cholesterol and high blood pressure.
The enriched ground beef is named Greato Premium Ground beef and is being sold through Manhattan Kan. -based company NBO3 Technologies LLC.
It will be available Mid-february at select retailers in Buffalo N y . and expand to leading retailers and restaurants nationwide later this year.
A quarter-pound hamburger made of the enriched ground beef has 200 milligrams of omega-3s and tastes the same as regular ground beef Drouillard said.
This makes the ground beef an alternative for people who want to add or increase their omega-3 fatty acids intake
but do not want fish or supplements to do so. As a society Americans'consumption of fish especially fish that contributes to these omega-3 fats is quite low compared to other proteins Drouillard said.
Americans do however like hamburgers. So if we can give people a hamburger that is rich in omega-3s it's an alternative form of a product that they already eat
and does not require a lifestyle change which is difficult to make. The health benefits of omega-3s are limited not to humans.
and beef cattle with an enriched diet of flaxseed and other omega-3 rich grains have fewer respiratory diseases.
The technology to enrich ground beef with omega-3s is a spinoff of flaxseed research Drouillard began in 1998.
Research showed that omega-3 levels dramatically increased in the cattle as more flaxseed was introduced into their diet.
This causes ground beef to have low levels of omega-3s. Christian Alvarado Gilis a doctoral candidate in animal sciences and industry is researching how to improve omega-3 levels in cattle diets to further enhance the fat profile of beef.
Gilis is from Chile. According to Drouillard substituting omega-3 fatty acids for saturated fats does not change the ground beef's flavor.
Knowing that there are a lot of desirable flavor characteristics associated with the fat in beef we performed tons of sensory panel tests with Kansas State university's meat science faculty
and with the department of human nutrition throughout the years to ensure that the flavor is compromised not Drouillard said.
We found that our panelists were never able to detect appreciable differences in the flavor profiles of the omega-3 rich beef
and non-omega-3 beef even though the fats are quite different. The owners of NBO3 Technologies LLC have worked closely with Drouillard in developing the concept
and after more than a decade of research on improving the enrichment process have started to distribute omega-3 enriched ground beef to retailers and food vendors.
The ground beef is part of the company's line of omega-3 enriched foods which includes pork chicken cheese milk butter and ice cream.
It will be the first ground beef to carry the U s. Food and Drug Administration's seal of approval for containing omega-3 fatty acids.
Todd Hansen CEO of NBO3 Technologies LLC said consumer response has been positive in test markets.
We have to leap two hurdles with Greato Premium Ground beef which are that the omega-3 fatty acids are really in the beef
and that it doesn't change the flavor Hansen said. Based on our consumer response we've cleared those hurdles.
In vitro laboratory tests have historically been conducted on 2-D cell cultures grown in flat petri dishes
In a sense natural gas would become a larger slice of the energy pie. â#¢Abundant less expensive natural gas would lower energy prices across the board leading people to use more energy overall.
Consequently the entire energy pie gets bigger. â#¢The main component of natural gas methane is a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.
Root systems are essential to gathering water and nutrients but understanding what's happening in these unseen parts of the plants has depended until now mostly on lab studies and subjective field measurements.
The overall goal is to develop improved plants that can feed increasing numbers of people
This will enable the launch of preventive measures at an earlier stage than before affecting the process of a cow contracting a disease and shortening the recovery time.
Early detection of the pest in traps such as ours can help in coordinating management strategies to slow its spread
and area of a fire's spread can be predicted days in advance. That will open doors to scientific advances in everything from firefighting technologies to firefighting resource logistics
and spread but they can come back there on day two and it will light and spread he says.
This situation is termed marginal burning. I began to study why the prescribed fire spreads. Under what conditions does it spread
We found that one of the most sensitive elements that is required for fire to spread is wind
Benefits of carotenoidswhatâ's more according to the researchers the inclusion of carotenoids in a diet can help to reduce risk of developing diseases such as certain types of cancer heart disease or damage to vision especially those related to an aging population.
and a fluid delivery system that can provide fresh water or water with nutrients. Larsen explains that the system could be operated remotely
If an astronaut requests tomatoes for a salad the system decides which specific plants have the ripest tomatoes
Working in a tiny mustard plant called Arabidopsis which is used as a genetic model and shares many of the same genes as other plants and crops he and his team of biologists discovered that the proteins encoded by the four genes they discovered repress the development of stomata at elevated CO2 levels.
and importing food commodities from other provinces or nations instead could help China conserve more water.
and wheat along with such livestock products as ruminant (animals like cattle goats and sheep that subsist on plant matter) pork and poultry.
and for 16 percent of water used in meat production in China. However those numbers skyrocket in Xinjiang Ningxia and Inner Mongolia where irrigation water is used predominantly for crop production (85 percent 69 percent and 49 percent respectively.
Policies which encourage such adjustments can help conserve water while maintaining China's food security. Story Source:
and that they moderate blood glucose concentrations following a meal according to a presentation by Susan M. Toth Phd research scientist Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.
In addition there is also research to support that oat and barley foods increase satiety after meals a sensation of feeling full after meals
and noodles to beverages and flat bread said Bo Jiang Phd professor of food science and executive director of the State Laboratory of Food Science and Technology at Jiangnan University in China.
In the U s. barley and oats are used primarily for animal feed since they are difficult to break down
and the functionality of milled flour from these grains and a poor public image said Liu.
and more efficient methods of breaking down the components and nutrients in these grains to make oats
or oats into value-added fractions enriched with nutrients some with commercial success said Liu. The USDA has developed improved dry
The approach would also improve soil's ability to retain nutrients and water making it beneficial for additional reasons.
it will enable the loss in nutrients (N P K Cu Zn) of the farm to be reduced
#Simple changes to homework improved student learninga new study offers evidence that simple and inexpensive changes to existing courses can help students learn more effectively.
The study from Rice university and Duke university found that making a few changes to homework assignments in an upper-level undergraduate engineering course at Rice led to improved scores on exams.
and systems engineering course where the experiment took place. These simple changes produced a larger effect than the average improvement for classroom interventions that require a complete overhaul of curricula and/or teaching methods.
and it can be used in agricultural areas to hold in nutrients and bring more stability to the soils.
and increase the availability of plant nutrients he said. Additionally the biochar can be burned as charcoal
poplar wood and corn stover into biofuels. The technology could also supply a source of renewable jet fuel required by recent European union aviation emission regulations.
There are on the market various patented enzymes that can do the job and break down cellulose into sugar
and sheep where they facilitate the digestion of feed consumed in the diet. Efforts to control methanogens in specific ways may improve feed utilization
and enhance the production of meat and milk researchers say. Methanogens are additionally a factor in human nutrition.
The organisms live in the large intestine where they enhance the breakdown of food. Some have proposed that restricting this activity of methanogens could help alleviate obesity.
Glossophaga soricina a nectar bat feeding on the flowers of a banana plant. Nectar feeding bats comprised one of three evolutionary optima for mechanical advantage among New world Leaf-nosed bats.
Photo credit: Dr. Beth Clare Queen Mary University. The key finding is that in a highly diverse group--New world Leaf-nosed bats--selection for mechanical advantage has shaped three distinct optimal skull shapes that correspond to feeding niches Dr. Dá
These bats of which there are almost 200 species eat a variety of foods including insects frogs lizards fruit nectar and even blood.
Their skulls mirror the variety of their diets--bats with long and narrow snouts eat nectar;
and engineering (dark blue) models for the base model of the omnivorous bat Carollia perspicillata (B) and the morphed models for the nectar-feeding Glossophaga soricina (A)
Nectar feeders have very low mechanical advantage--a trade-off for having long narrow snouts that fit into the flowers in
which they find nectar. Morphological diversity among New world Leaf nosed bats with different diets. Nectar:
A) Platalina genovensium B) Glossophaga soricina; generalists: C) Carollia perspicillata D) Vampyrum spectrum; fig-eating frugivores:
E) Artibeus jamaicensis F) Chiroderma villosum; and short-faced bats: G) Phyllops falcatus H) Centurio senex.
and flowers as well as human-made materials such as a sheet of tissue paper lying in a dish of water.
Insects frogs lizards fruit nectar and even blood. The bats'skulls of today reflect this dietary diversity.
Species with long narrow snouts eat nectar while short-faced bats have exceptionally short wide palates for eating hard fruits.
One was the long narrow snout of nectar feeders the second was the extremely short and wide snout of short-faced bats
Nectar feeders have very low mechanical advantage which is a trade-off for having long narrow snouts that fit into the flowers in
which they find nectar. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
and markets they might notice that beef products are double or triple the price of other protein sources
and rightfully so might hold beef to an even higher standard of excellence said Dan Thomson Kansas State university veterinarian professor and director of the Beef cattle Institute.
Beef is one of the purest most wholesome and most humanely raised forms of protein that we produce worldwide Thomson said.
As a beef industry we are being asked day in and day out to take a holistic view of technology.
The use of beta-agonists in cattle feeding is among the modern feedlot technologies making waves in the beef industry.
and how the feed supplement might cause cattle particularly in the summer months to be slow-moving and stiff-muscled once they arrive at packing facilities.
We're going to learn more about the last 30 days on feed Thomson said of research on beta-agonists.
History of beta-agonist usefeedlots have used beta-agonists a cattle feed supplement approved by the U s. Food
and Drug Administration (FDA) and considered safe from a food safety perspective to improve the cattle's natural ability to convert feed into more lean muscle.
A closer look at cattle fatigue syndromethe beef industry has a really good start on understanding
Advice for feedlot operatorsthomson said that he is very pro-technology. While Merck recently announced that it is too early to determine
and the Five-Step Plan for Responsible Beef) many feedlots might have switched to using a competing beta-agonist called Optaflexx or ractopamine.
Why would you conserve water in the urban environment when the farmers are flooding the fields?
and even make pizza with customized toppings. But what happens when a machine displaces someone we really care about--someone who knows our personal routines,
hormone-free milk and natural syrups) with a precision and consistency wholly unattainable by humans.
so they can reorder their favorite drinks--with, for instance, a certain number of vanilla shots or certain amount of sugar.
and syrups imported from France. The Briggo mantra is that it's first and foremost a gourmet coffee company--not a technology or device company.
and ask for a touch more milk or another pump of syrup. When the machine is done,
an artificially-controlled indoor environment that provides lighting, mineral nutrients and water--but not much else.
and nutrients that are beneficial for plant matter. You mentioned Europe is ahead of the game on hydroponics,
New irrigation system helps farmers conserve water Infographic: What is the water footprint in the U s
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