After US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks showed that the State Department was lobbying worldwide for Monsanto and other similar corporations, a new report based on the cables shows Washington’s shilling for the biotech industry in distinct detail. Original post on rt.com Comments on reddit.com
Dutch research reveals correlation between water polluted with imidacloprid and low numbers of aquatic insects Original post on guardian.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
Don’t you dare relieve a basic biological need on company time! Original post on alternet.org Comments on reddit.com
Controversial theory that seeks to explain one of the great leaps of human evolution finds new support but still divides scientists Original post on guardian.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
Sales of Samsung’s smartphones jumped 56% to 69.4 million units, almost double the number of iPhones sold by Apple, Strategy Analytics said Original post on financialpost.com Comments on reddit.com
Scientists have designed and built a container that holds just a single water molecule. The container consists of a fullerene cage and a phosphate moiety that acts as the cap to keep the water inside. Original post on phys.org Comments on reddit.com
In 2007, the increased human population, increased prices in fuel and transportation costs, and an increased demand for a diversity of food products prompted a Global Food Crisis. Agricultural producers and government leaders world-wide struggled to procure stable food sources for their countries. But the crisis had impacts beyond 2007: it was also the impetus for what we now know as the global land-grabbing phenomenon. Original post on mongabay.com Comments on reddit.com
Apple will pay a $53 million settlement to perhaps hundreds of thousands of iPhone and iPod owners denied replacement phones due to ‘water damage.’ Original post on dailymail.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
ABOUT 28,000 rivers have disappeared from China’s state maps, an absence seized upon by environmentalists as evidence of the irreversible natural cost of developmental excesses. Original post on news.com.au Comments on reddit.com
After a week of down time due to a computer glitch, NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover is once again sending back pictures of its rocky Red Planet locale at Yellowknife Bay. In this fresh panorama, the rover looks as if it’s sticking its drill-equipped robotic arm right in your face. Original post on nbcnews.com Comments on reddit.com
British water companies are avoiding millions of pounds in tax by loading themselves up with debt listed on an offshore stock exchange, an investigation has revealed. Original post on independent.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
Graphene, a wonder material that promises to transform the future, is already the stuff of scientific legend. As a piece of brilliant serendipity it stands alongside the accidental disc Original post on telegraph.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A defense contractor better known for building jet fighters and lethal missiles says it has found a way to slash the amount of energy needed to remove salt from seawater, potentially Original post on reuters.com Comments on reddit.com
An app allows boat travelers to track declining levels of phytoplankton, a microscopic organism at the base of the marine food chain Original post on smithsonianmag.com Comments on reddit.com
Filter could sharply cut energy needed to remove salt fromwater* Officials say firm has patented process, looking forpartners* Cheaper seawater purification could help ease watersecurity fearsBy Original post on reuters.com Comments on reddit.com
FOODBEAST is the premiere food news resource. A one-stop location for food news, culture and entertainment. Original post on foodbeast.com Comments on reddit.com
An outbreak of paralyzing algae known as red tide is killing manatees by the dozens in Florida. Original post on nbcnews.com Comments on reddit.com
IT’S useful stuff, concrete, but it does have drawbacks. One of the biggest is that it is not as weatherproof as the stone it often substitutes. Salt and ice… Original post on economist.com Comments on reddit.com
The deepest ocean on Earth is the Pacific Ocean’s Marianas Trench, which reaches a depth of 6.8 miles awesomely trumped by the depth of the ocean on the Jupiter’s moon, Europa, which some measurements put at 62 miles. Although Europa… Original post on dailygalaxy.com Comments on reddit.com
Mathematical knots cannot be untied &nash; and now they have been made in water, a feat that could boost our grasp of aircraft wings and quantum Original post on newscientist.com Comments on reddit.com
There are many scientific observations that simply defy explanation. New Scientist takes a tour of exceptions that could rewrite all the rules Original post on newscientist.com Comments on reddit.com
There is water inside the moon – so much, in fact, that in some places it rivals the amount of water found within the Earth. Over the last five years, spacecraft observations and new lab measurements of Apollo lunar samples… Original post on dailygalaxy.com Comments on reddit.com
The base pairs that hold together two pieces of RNA, the older cousin of DNA, are some of the most important molecular interactions in living cells. Many scientists believe that these base pairs were part of life from the very beginning and that RNA was one of the first polymers of life. But there is a problem. The RNA bases don’t form base pairs in water unless they are connected to a polymer backbone, a trait that has baffled origin-of-life scientists for decades. If the bases don’t pair before they are part of polymers, how would the bases have been selected out from the many molecules in the “prebiotic soup” so that RNA polymers could be formed? Original post on esciencenews.com Comments on reddit.com
From Yahoo! News: LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A body found in a large water tank on top of a downtown Los Angeles hotel on Tuesday may belong to a 21-year-old Canadian woman who went missing under suspicious circumstances while staying there late last month, police said. Elisa Lam, a student from Vancouver, British Columbia, who was visiting Southern California on her own, was last seen at the Cecil Hotel on January 31. Los Angeles Police detectives had characterized her disappearance as suspicious…. Original post on yahoo.com Comments on reddit.com
The first signs of potentially exotic life have been spotted in a sample of water drawn from Antarctica’s hidden Lake Whillans, a half-mile beneath the surface, according to reports from the scene. The telltale green glow of cells stained with a DNA-sensitive dye could be seen wh … Original post on nbcnews.com Comments on reddit.com
