Items tagged with “plants”
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“Cooling” Forests Can Heat, Too: The Energy Budget of a Forest Includes Significant Heat Reserves
2010-01-20T21:39:02-04:00
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—January 21, 2010—The simple formula we’ve learned in recent years—forests remove the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmo...
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Science Tips, January 2010
2010-01-14T04:25:30-04:00
To See or Not to See How do the visual images we experience, which have no tangible existence, arise out of physical processes in the brain? New research at the Weizmann Institute of Science provides evidence, for the ...
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Going for Green
2008-05-01T18:57:00-04:00
Institute scientists are advancing the search for better fuels Oil from Algae What are the best crops to grow for biofuels? Corn and sugarcane, presently converted to et...
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Everybody Needs a Friend Sometimes
2006-06-01T16:22:00-04:00
A genetically engineered plant recruits "bodyguards" that protect it against its enemies We get by with a little help from our friends—but sometimes this help can come from an unexpected source. That’s...
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New Witchweed-Fighting Method, Developed by Cimmyt and Weizmann Institute Scientist, to Become Public in July
2002-07-01T14:44:00-04:00
Rehovot, Israel—July 1, 2002—Corn harvests on experimental plots and in farmers' fields in four East and Southern African countries have yielded striking results in long-term trials of...
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High Salt, High Hopes, High Tech
1997-06-01T16:04:00-04:00
From the Land of the Rising Sun to the Land of Abundant Sunshine Dunaliella bardawil, a single-celled alga so resistant to salt and sunlight that it can even survive in the hostile environment of the Dead...