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  Hydrogen Sulfide Greatly Enhances Plant Growth: Key Ingredient in Mass Extinctions Could Boost Food, Biofuel Production

  April 17, 2013 — In low doses, hydrogen sulfide, a substance implicated in several mass extinctions, could greatly enhance plant growth, leading to a sharp increase in global food supplies and plentiful stock for ... > full story
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  Coelacanth Genome Surfaces: Unexpected Insights from a Fish With a 300-Million-Year-Old Fossil Record

  April 17, 2013 — An international team of researchers has decoded the genome of the African coelacanth. The species was once thought to be extinct, but a living coelacanth was discovered off the African coast in ... > full story

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  Half of Tamiflu Prescriptions Went Unused During 2009 H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic, UK Sewage Study

  April 17, 2013 — A new study concludes that approximately half of the prescriptions of Tamiflu during the 2009-10 influenza pandemic went unused in England. The unused medication represents approximately 600,000 ... > full story
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  NASA's Wind Mission Encounters 'SLAMS' Waves

  April 16, 2013 — To tease out what happens at that boundary of the magnetosphere and to better understand how radiation and energy from the sun can cross it and move closer to Earth, NASA launches spacecraft into ... > full story
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  Turning Algae Into Clean Energy and Fish Food; Helping Africans to Irrigate Crops

  April 16, 2013 — Two student teams working hard to move their “green” ideas off the drawing board and into the real world will showcase their ... > full story
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  Better Skin Grafting: Inspired by Spiny-Headed Worms, Scientists Invent Microneedle Adhesive Stronger Than Surgical Staples

  April 16, 2013 — A parasitic worm may hold the answer to keeping skin grafts firmly in place over ... > full story
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  Powerpot Turns Heat and Water Into Electricity

  April 16, 2013 — Students have invented a portable cook pot that doubles as a thermoelectric generator, and are now marketing ... > full story
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  Scientists Transform Cellulose Into Starch: Potential Food Source Derived from Non-Food Plants

  April 16, 2013 — A team of researchers has succeeded in transforming cellulose into starch, a process that has the potential to provide a previously untapped nutrient source from plants not traditionally though of as ... > full story
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  Seasonal Patterns of Tropical Rainfall Changes from Global Warming Revealed

  April 15, 2013 — Projections of rainfall changes from global warming have been very uncertain because scientists could not determine how two different mechanisms will impact rainfall. The two mechanisms turn out to ... > full story
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  Surprising Findings on Hydrogen Production in Green Algae

  April 15, 2013 — New research fuels hope of efficient hydrogen production with green algae may be possible in the future, despite the prevailing scepticism based on previous ... > full story

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