A new study found that organic farms produced more flavorful and nutritious berries while leaving the soil healthier and more genetically diverse. (Credit: iStockphoto/Margarita Borodina) ScienceDaily (Sep. 1, 2010) — Side-by-side comparisons of organic and conventional strawberry farms and their fruit found the organic farms produced more flavorful and nutritious berries while leaving the soil [...]
Between 2006 and 2007, the Southern Nevada Water Authority in Las Vegas screened tap water from 19 US water utilities for 51 different compounds. The 11 most frequently detected compounds are highlighted in the cartoon and described below. Follow all of Mean Joe Green’s environmental cartoons on JoeMohrToons.com and on Twitter at @GreenCartoons. 1.used to [...]
This handout photo, released August 30, 2010, compares the size of its genetically engineered AquAdvantage Salmon (background) to an Atlantic salmon of the same age (foreground). The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will hold a three-day meeting starting September 19, 2010 to discuss whether to approve the altered fish for U.S. consumers to eat. Credit: [...]
In this Aug. 25, 2010 photo, anti-nuclear activist Glenn Carroll poses in the office she uses to run Nuclear Watch South from in Decatur, Ga. President Barack Obama has backed billions of dollars in federal loan guarantees to build two nuclear reactors in Georgia, the first nuclear power plant in the U.S. in almost three [...]
Mosquito biting. Fire up the citronella-scented tiki torches, and slather on the DEET: Everybody knows these simple precautions repel insects, notably mosquitoes, whose bites not only itch and irritate, but also transmit diseases such as West Nile virus, malaria and dengue. (Credit: iStockphoto/Vladimír Vítek) ScienceDaily (Aug. 26, 2010) — Fire up the citronella-scented tiki torches, [...]
Drinking more water before meals can help promote weight loss, new research suggests. (Credit: iStockphoto/Lise Gagne) ScienceDaily (Aug. 23, 2010) — Has the long-sought magic potion in society's "battle with the bulge" finally arrived? An appetite-control agent that requires no prescription, has no common side effects, and costs almost nothing? Scientists report results of a [...]
Brain areas influenced by IBMT. (Credit: Image courtesy of University of Oregon) ScienceDaily (Aug. 16, 2010) — Just 11 hours of learning a meditation technique induces positive structural changes in brain connectivity by boosting efficiency in a part of the brain that helps a person regulate behavior in accordance with their goals, researchers report. The [...]
Astronaut Michael Gernhardt is attached to the Shuttle Endeavour's robot arm during a spacewalk on the STS-69 mission in 1995. Researchers recently found substantial loss of fiber mass, force and power in astronaut muscles while in space. (Credit: NASA) ScienceDaily (Aug. 18, 2010) — Astronaut muscles waste away on long space flights reducing their capacity [...]
(Image: Nature Picture Library/Rex) More than 500 people have been bitten by rabies-infected vampire bats in the Peruvian Amazon. The BBC reports that "four children in the Awajun indigenous tribe died after being bitten by the bloodsucking mammals. Health workers have given rabies vaccine to more than 500 people who have also been attacked." When [...]
Why have the numbers of autism diagnoses ballooned in recent decades? Researchers have long claimed that changes to the way the condition is diagnosed are the main cause. But now a series of a studies have shown that diagnostic changes alone cannot account for the increase. They suggest that other causes, perhaps environmental factors, are [...]
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