New test identifies poisonous mushrooms
Credit: Candace Bever, ARS-USDA ALBANY, CALIFORNIA, February 19, 2020--A simple, portable test that can detect the deadliest of the mushroom ...
Tag: Food/Food Science
Think all BPA-free products are safe? Not so fast, scientists warn
MU scientists find BPA alternative, bisphenol S, could negatively affect both a mother's placenta and potentially a developing baby's brainCredit: ...
Visualizing diffusive dynamics beyond tracking limit with standard optical microscope
Evaluating the spatio-temporal distribution of diffusion coefficients for high-concentration Brownian particles without fluorescent labeling nor tracking them from microscopy movie ...
Memory games: Eating well to remember
UTS researchers have uncovered a strong link between the consumption of certain food groups and memory loss and comorbid heart ...
5200-year-old grains in the eastern Altai Mountains redate trans-Eurasian crop exchange
Agricultural crops dispersed across Eurasia more than five millennia ago, causing significant cultural change in human populations across the ancient ...
New technique reduces pathogen identification time from two weeks to less than one hour
Credit: Karolina Pusz-Bochenska, Edel Perez-Lopez, Tim J. Dumonceaux, Chrystel Olivier, and Tyler J. Wist St. Paul, MN (February 2020)--Transmitted by ...
How plants in the cabbage family look inward when sulfur is scarce
Kyushu University researchers identify two key enzymes that release sulfur from health-beneficial chemicals in thale cress to promote growth in ...
Bayreuth researchers discover new arsenic compounds in rice fields
Risk or opportunity for rice cultivation?Credit: Photo: José Miguel Leon Ninin. University of Bayreuth researchers, together with scientists from Italy ...
‘Rule breaking’ plants may be climate change survivors
Credit: Dr Annabel Smith Plants that break some of the 'rules' of ecology by adapting in unconventional ways may have ...
No clear path for golden rice to reach consumers
Seed choice study reveals flawed assumptions behind hotly debated GMOCredit: Courtesy Glenn Davis Stone, Washington University in St. Louis Heralded ...
Next generation of greenhouses may be fully solar powered
Credit: Brendan O'Connor, NC State University Many greenhouses could become energy neutral by using see-through solar panels to harvest energy ...
Understanding gut microbiota, one cell at a time
New genomic sequencing technique enables exploring gut microbiota, one cell at a timeCredit: Waseda University A population of microorganisms living ...
Portable device lights the way to better foodborne illness detection
Credit: Euiwon Bae/Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Foodborne illness hits about one in six people in the United States ...
Bacteria engineered to protect bees from pests and pathogens
Credit: Alex Wild/University of Texas at Austin Scientists from The University of Texas at Austin report in the journal Science ...
Speedy recovery: New corn performs better in cold
BTI researchers develop a strain of corn that recovers much more quickly after a cold snap, which could enable farmers ...
Can chickpea genes save mustard seeds from blight disease?
Credit: Urooj Fatima, Priyadarshini Bhorali, and Muthappa Senthil-Kumar During visits to fields in Assam, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, India, plant ...
Are you ‘at risk’ of being a habitual tofu eater?
Credit: RIKEN Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS) in Japan and colleagues at Osaka University have ...
Pollination is better in cities than in the countryside
Plants benefit from more bees, especially bumble beesCredit: Henryk Niestrój /Pixabay Flowering plants are better pollinated in urban than in ...
Algae shown to improve gastrointestinal health
Project is the first to test green algae on symptoms related to human digestionCredit: Frank Fields, UC San Diego A ...
Major NSF-sponsored grant will help researchers discover ways to improve urban sustainability
Credit: Jan Thompson AMES, Iowa - Dense urban areas use up more energy, water and food resources than they can ...
