New ultrasound technology leads to inexpensive disease biomarker detection
In Washington D.C., American Chemical Society researchers reported a new technique that uses ultrasound to concentrate fluorescently-labeled disease biomarkers otherwise impossible to detect with...
Mathematics prove the value of precision agriculture for hand-picked specialty crops
In Illinois, researchers at the University of Illinois used mathematics to prove the potential for financial rewards by applying precision agriculture techniques to hand-picked...
High-tech farming works in rural communities, too
In Arizona, technologies that allow astronauts and polar explorers to grow fresh foods in space and Antarctica can benefit rural communities, too. Dr. Gene...
Baker’s yeast is enlisted as a low-cost, low-maintenance global pathogen detector
In New York, during a project that began as a search to find a cost-effective, simple way to detect cholera, Columbia University researchers developed...
New discovery finds rocks produce more than a quarter of the nitrogen available to...
In California, the prevailing science has indicated that all of the nitrogen on Earth available to plants comes from the atmosphere. But a study...
Now, cow emissions can be more accurately estimated
In Pennsylvania, leading the worldwide effort to get a better handle on methane emissions from animals, an international consortium of researchers devised more accurate...
Using old tree rootstock to make new apple trees increases resistance to disease and...
In New York, geneticists with the Agricultural Research Service are working with one of the ancestors of the world’s first apple trees from Kazakhstan...
Tomato juice can taste better by adding tomato essence
In Florida, University of Florida scientists are working on making your tomato juice taste better by extracting tomato essence and then adding it back...
Eating walnuts activates the hunger regulator part of your brain
In Massachusetts, a first-of-its-kind brain imaging study showed consuming walnuts activates an area in the brain associated with regulating hunger and cravings. Packed with...
Next generation resistive memory made from egg whites
In China, knowing that egg albumen has good dielectric properties, a high transparency and high elasticity, Southwest University researchers have shown that when egg...