Jul 26 2011

Deadly Horse Virus Found in Dog

Tag: Animals,Bats,Dogs,Fox,Fruit,Horses,Humans — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 3:33 pm
Authorities fear that the lethal Hendravvirus has jumped species.

Jul 05 2011

Bananas, Highly Inbred, at Risk

Tag: Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing,Bugs and Pests,Fruit,Fruits and Vegetables — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 11:19 am
Bananas will need sex if they are to survive into ripe old age, research concludes.

Jun 10 2011

New Dino May Be World’s Smallest

Tag: Animals,Antarctica,Bees,Birds,Carnivores,Consumption,Dinosaurs,Earth,Europe,Fossils,Fruit,Insects,Mountains,Museums and Tours,Omnivores,Tyrannosaurus,Video — Jennifer Viegas @ 3:39 pm
This dinosaur may be pint-sized, but it was still a predator.

Jun 08 2011

Which Foods Are Most Likely to Get You Sick?

Tag: Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing,Animals,Bacteria,CDC,Chickens,Cooking,Cows,Eggs,Food,Food Unwrapped,Fruit,Fruits and Vegetables,Poultry,Prevention,Vegetables — Emily Sohn @ 11:00 am
In light of the recent deadly outbreak of E. coli in Germany, find out which foods are the riskiest and why.

May 16 2011

Youthful Ingenuity Honored at Intel Science Fair

Tag: Animals,Asteroids,Bacteria,Building,Ceremonies,Chemistry,Community,Devices,Disaster Scenarios,Earth,Engineering,Experiments,Family Members,Fear,Fish,Flies,Fruit,Hearing,High School,Inventions,Kids,Laboratories,Meteorites,Nobel Prize,Nuclear Science,Particles,Plants,Plastic,Recipes,Science,Scientists,Sight,Spiders,Technology,Transportation,Tumor,Yeast and Bread Machine — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 6:24 pm
Young scientists receive awards in international competition.

Mar 23 2011

Slip a Banana Peel in Your Drink For Purity

Tag: Fruit,Fruits and Vegetables,Waste,Water — Emily Sohn @ 11:00 am
Don't just throw that banana peel away. It could be a cheap new way to detect heavy metal contamination in drinking water.

Mar 10 2011

World’s Most Expensive Coffee’s Key Ingredient? Dung

Tag: Coffee,Fruit,Taste — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 4:30 pm
Single cups of this luxury brand have been known to sell for almost $100 in specialty outlets.

Mar 10 2011

Save the Bees, Urges U.N.

Tag: Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing,Bees,Fruit,Gardening,Honey,Pesticides,Plants — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 2:23 pm
Bee declines range up to 85 percent in some areas and have prompted alarm from the United Nations.

Mar 08 2011

LED Lighting Makes Food Look More Appetizing

Tag: Bulbs,Food,Food Unwrapped,Fruit,Fruits and Vegetables,LEDs,Light,Saving Energy — Eric Niiler @ 12:00 pm
Next time you're at the store, you might want to take a second look at your emerald-green broccoli and super-fresh red meats.

Aug 23 2010

Bananas Get Pepper Power

Tag: Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing,Bacteria,Fruit,Genes,Plants — Emily Sohn @ 11:00 am
A ruinous banana bacteria in Africa gets the shaft when two green pepper genes are inserted into bananas.
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