UK research community unites to help ensure future food security
03:13 11-03-2010; source: www.sciencedaily.com
The UK's main public funders of food-related research and training will today (11 March) join together to launch a new program aimed at meeting the challenge of providing the world's growing population with a sustainable, secure supply of good quality food using less land and fewer resources. The organizations will work together through a new program -- Global Food Security -- to coordinate and align their research interests. By working together to develop strategy and identify shared goals the partners aim to harness the country's world-leading research base to help to deliver healthy, sustainable food for all.
Prehistoric response to global warming informs human planning today
01:13 11-03-2010; source: www.sciencedaily.com
Since 2004, University at Buffalo anthropologist Ezra Zubrow has worked intensively with teams of scientists in the Arctic regions of St. James Bay, Quebec, northern Finland and Kamchatka to understand how humans living 4,000 to 6,000 years ago reacted to climate changes.
Scientists solve puzzle of chickens that are half male and half female
21:13 10-03-2010; source: www.sciencedaily.com
A puzzle that has baffled scientists for centuries -- why some birds appear to be male on one side of the body and female on the other -- has been solved by researchers. The research, which involved studying rare naturally occurring chickens with white (male) plumage on one side and brown (female) plumage on the other, sheds new light on the sexual development of birds.
Smell of salt air surprisingly detected a mile high and 900 miles inland
21:13 10-03-2010; source: www.sciencedaily.com
In a surprise with implications for air quality, researchers have found that chemistry involving airborne chloride, thought to be restricted to sea spray, occurs at similar rates in air above Boulder, Colo., nearly 900 miles away from any ocean.
Physicians click their way to better prescriptions
20:13 10-03-2010; source: www.sciencedaily.com
Is it time for all community-based doctors to turn to e-prescribing to cut down on the number of medication errors? Electronic prescriptions can dramatically reduce prescribing errors -- up to seven-fold, according to a new study of the benefits of e-prescribing in primary care practices.
World crude oil production may peak a decade earlier than some predict
20:13 10-03-2010; source: www.sciencedaily.com
In a finding that may speed efforts to conserve oil and intensify the search for alternative fuel sources, scientists in Kuwait predict that world conventional crude oil production will peak in 2014 -- almost a decade earlier than some other predictions.
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