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MSNBC
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By mimicking the guts of the biggest dinosaurs, scientists now find the animals' diets of evergreens and ferns were more nourishing than previously thought.
These new findings help solve the mystery of how such dinosaurs reached huge sizes off seemingl..
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www.scientificblogging.com
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The study reveals the likely mechanism by which the Arabidopsis plant flowers in response to changes in day length. Earlier research had shown that plants' leaves perceived seasonal changes in day length, which triggers a long-distance signal to travel th..
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MSNBC
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If trees grow on other planets, their leaves might be red, orange or yellow, and not only in autumn, scientists say.
Two new studies detailed in the March issue of the journal Astrobiology find that the color of a planet’s photosynthetic organisms de..
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BBC News
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Insulin produced by genetically modified plants - with a human gene added - could be on the market in three years, a Canadian company has claimed.
Sembiosys said it has made scientific breakthroughs and found a short cut through current drug regulation..
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Yahoo News
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A moratorium on coal-fired power plants is key to cutting carbon dioxide emissions that promote global warming, NASA's top climatologist said Monday.
"There should be a moratorium on building any more coal-fired power plants until the technology to cap..
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BBC News
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Scientists with the European Space Agency (Esa) say the day when flowers bloom on the Moon has come closer.
An Esa-linked team has shown that marigolds can grow in crushed rock very like the lunar surface, with no need for plant food.
Some see growi..
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MSNBC
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Two plants that were thought to have been extinct since the late 1800s have been rediscovered in far northern Australia, according to a report released Saturday.
The Queensland state government's State of the Environment report said the two species wer..
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BBC News
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Scientists say they have made a key breakthrough in understanding the genes of plants that could lead to crops that can survive in a drought.
Researchers in Finland and the United States say they have discovered a gene that controls the amount of carbo..
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BBC News
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Plants genetically engineered to make fish oils offer a new approach to improving diet, say UK scientists.
Experiments have proved that crops containing genes from marine organisms are able to produce omega 3 fatty acids normally found in oily fish...
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Physorg
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Recent research from Vidi researcher Josef Stuefer at the Radboud University Nijmegen reveals that plants have their own chat systems that they can use to warn each other. Therefore plants are not boring and passive organisms that just stand there waiting..
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BBC News
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Arctic plants are able to migrate the distances needed to survive changes to the climate, scientists have suggested.
Habitats are expected to shift further north as the planet warms, and plants' inability to move quickly enough has been a cause for con..
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Nature.com
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Telling apart relatives from strangers is crucial in many animal species, helping them to share precious resources or avoid inbreeding. Now it seems that plants can perform the same trick.
Plants have already been shown to compete with others — of th..
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Washington Post
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Underwater Hydrilla Plant Not as Harmful as Thought
When it was discovered in the Potomac River in the early 1980s, the exotic plant Hydrilla verticillata was seen as the ecological equivalent of suburban sprawl. Environmentalists feared that the fast-..
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