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The Monster Cane – a new variety of sugarcane – will now be grown not only for sugar, raising cattle and fertilizing farmland, but also for producing ethanol from it to fuel cars on a test field on the tiny island of Ie in Japan’s southernmost…

Pix: The scanning electron micrograph at left shows an overview of the silicon track, designed to coax the bacteria into moving in a uniform direction around the circular tracks. In the center, two cells glide along the wall in the track. The…

Though it is the foundation of the aquatic food web, the very densely populated ‘micro-algae’ lead to low oxygen ‘dead zones’, killing fish and many species too risk human health.

Thus, for protecting their communities, coastal managers need to…

This rocking-chair is highly weather-resistant and eco-friendly. The chair is made from reclaimed plastics — include milk containers and other post-consumer polymers – which would otherwise have headed for the landfill, adding to the already…

With the outbreak of diseases like malaria and meningitis increasing with the change in climate across the world, of which the scientists have been warning for long, the British government have geared up for their combating at the beginning, if not…

Up to 60,000 people die in a year across the world only by excessive exposure to ultraviolet radiation, a World Health Organization report says. But, such deaths can be easily avoided by taking some simple preventive measures like seeking shade when..

Researchers are developing fibers in the lab that can be used as scaffolds for regenerating ligaments damaged in one of the world’s most common knee injuries. They are spinning it from elements drawn from nature – spider web! Yes, they are spinning…

Here is an interesting product for swimming-lovers, especially with the winter approaching. These are the floating rings that collect and use the solar energy to raise the temperature of an average-sized pool by 3-4 per week. Hence it is not only…

Pix: NASA’s Live Tropical Sea Surface Temperatures

Scientists draw information or forecast about ocean currents, climate, climate change and how a hurricane may evolve, from sea surface temperatures, with the help of satellite-monitoring. But, now,..

Here is an eco-friendly and health-friendly alternative to the poisonous insecticides needed to kill the pink hibiscus mealybug in Louisiana – the non-stinging wasps! These gnat-sized wasps — almost invisible to the naked eye – can help eradicate…