We've all pretty much accepted the advice that eating more fruit and vegetables will make us healthier. But few of us have succeeded at piling half our plates with plant matter at every meal, as recommended by the government health police. ...
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Israel-based coloring ingredients supplier LycoRed is planning to launch new high-intensity beta-carotene colorant formulations named Lyc-O-Beta Intense and BetaCote Intense at Drinktec, which will be held from September 16-20 2013. The ...
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Glucose is produced by the conversion of carbohydrates into sugar in the body. This is a normal process in a normal person but can the process can be entirely different for a person suffering from diabetes. Patients that suffer from ...
Chinese scientists announced on Monday that they have developed a type of nanomaterial which can catalyze algae masses growing on water surfaces into inorganic earth. Chinese lakes are often plagued by catastrophic outbreaks of blue-green ...
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Why peaches were so good this summer Washington State University (WSU) researchers have tested 1,900 advanced breeding lines of wheat and more than 20,000 individual wheat plots and did not find any evidence of a herbicide-resistance ...
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A new study has revealed that the stunning iridescent wings of the tropical blue Morpho butterfly could expand the range of innovative technologies. Scientific lessons learnt from these butterflies have already inspired designs of new ...
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Have a seat and check out these drool-worthy models that just might make 8 hours in front of a computer a pleasant experience. It's a scenario that many of us have had the misfortune of experiencing: lower back pain, ...
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A disease, by definition, is a disorder of structure or function in an organism that produces specific symptoms or signs to indicate its presence. Inheritance, in terms of biology, is the passing of characteristics, good or bad, from ...
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International Paint announced that its two latest hull-coating technologies have already made a significant impact on the market within months of their launch in March. Designed to address the industry issues of predictability in ...
, Nobel Laureate, professor and president of the St. Petersburg Academic University of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Viacheslav M. Andreev, professor and head of the laboratory of the A.F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute in St. ...
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Scientists observe the brains of test persons while wearing tight clothing – significant differences appear in terms of alertness - In a pilot study on the neuro physiological perception of textiles on the skin, scientists at the ...
There are too few data scientists in the world and education needs to change in order to maximise the true potential of data science, one of the leading authorities in the field has told Computing. "The answer is 'no', there aren't enough ...
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We're in the "decade of data" and it will "dwarf the revolution that came from the internet" and change every part of society across the globe. That's what one of the world's top data scientists, Alex 'Sandy' Pentland, founder and ...
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Some new evidences for the existence of element 115 have been presented by a team of Swedish scientists. The evidence was published Tuesday in the U.S. scientific journal "Physical Review Letters". The element is highly radioactive and ...
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Celator Pharmaceuticals, a pharmaceutical company developing therapies to treat cancer, has received US patent titled, ‘Lipid Carrier Compositions with Enhanced Blood Stability’ from the US Patent and Trademark Office on 27 ...