2012
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- A new, super-nutritious puffed rice for breakfast cereals and snacks
- Hagfish slime as a model for tomorrow's natural fabrics
- Sustainable way to make a prized fragrance ingredient
- Wine and tea are key ingredients in South African plan to grow domestic research
- Toward a pill to enable celiac patients to eat foods containing gluten
- A heady discovery for beer fans The first gene for beer foam could improve froth
- Date palm juice A potential new green anti-corrosion agent for aerospace industry
- Inspiration from Mother Nature leads to improved wood
- New micropumps for hand-held medical labs produce pressures 500 times higher than car tire
- The controversy over flame retardants in millions of sofas, chairs and other products
- Buffalo milk mozzarella or buffaloed consumers? New test can provide the answer
- Carbon dioxide from water pollution - as well as air pollution - may adversely impact oceans
- Chewing betel quid exposes half a billion people to direct carcinogens
- New treatments may allow allergic people to safely eat eggs, peanuts and other foods
- Artificial butter flavoring ingredient linked to key Alzheimer's disease process
- Spice ingredient in curry emerges as promising basis for an Alzheimer's disease medicine
- Toward super-size wind turbines Bigger wind turbines do make greener electricity
- Transparent solar cells for windows that generate electricity
- Antidote for cocaine overdose shows promise in lab tests
- Nanomedicines promise fewer side effects in treating cancer
- New secrets from 'Bay of the Pirates' warship that sunk 2,300 years ago
- New technique for detecting mold contamination in homes and other buildings
- One million billion billion billion billion billion billion The number of new drugs awaiting discovery
- Drug companies moving toward green goals
- 'Killer stainless steel' New process for giving icon of cleanliness anti-bacterial coating
- Kitchen exhaust fans vary in effectiveness in reducing indoor air pollution
- New device warns workers of high levels of airborne metals in minutes rather than weeks
- New study of pine nuts leaves mystery of 'pine mouth' unsolved
- Beetle-infested pine trees contribute more to air pollution and haze in forests
- Hazelnuts New source of key fat for infant formula thats more like mother's milk
- New process would make anti-malarial drug less costly
- Old herbicides enlisted in new 'war on the weeds'
- Real-life scientific tail of the first 'electrified snail'
- Defying conventional wisdom, water can float on oil
- First study investigating possible link between sunscreen ingredient and endometriosis
- Healthcare for the U.S. Navys animal warriors could help people stay healthier
- Secrets of the first practical artificial leaf
- Soybeans soaked in warm water naturally release key cancer-fighting substance
- Carbon nanotubes can double growth of cell cultures important in industry
- Greening up the blue dye in jeans, police uniforms and the red, white & blue
- Some 'improved cookstoves' may emit more pollution than traditional mud cookstoves
- Advance toward an imaging agent for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease
- Children may have highest exposure to titanium dioxide nanoparticles
- Climate change may increase risk of water shortages in hundreds of U.S. counties by 2050
- Dust from industrial-scale processing of nanomaterials carries high explosion risk
- New evidence that bacteria in large intestine have a role in obesity
- New 'smart pills' signal your iPhone to notify the doctor - and more from innovative drug company partnerships
- Arsenic criticality poses concern for modern technology
- New crime-fighting tools aim to deter and nab terrorists
- New process could advance use of healthy cells or stem cells to treat disease
- 'Shish kebab' structure provides improved form of 'buckypaper'
- Will bubble-powered microrockets zoom through the human stomach?
- Biofuel cell generates electricity when implanted in False Deaths Head Cockroach
- Handheld device for doing blood tests moves closer to medical use
- New web-based tool details greenhouse gas emissions for 6,700 facilities nationwide
- Potatoes lower blood pressure in people with obesity and hypertension without increasing weight
- Capsules that clean New-look laundry detergents head for supermarket shelves
- Grafted watermelon plants take in more pesticides
- New standard for vitamin D testing to ensure accurate test results
- Scorpions inspire scientists in making tougher surfaces for machinery
- Stinky frogs are a treasure trove of antibiotic substances
- A 'wild card' in your genes
- Contact lenses provide extended pain relief to laser eye surgery patients
- First link between potentially toxic PFCs in office air and in office workers' blood
- How drugs get those tongue-twisting generic names
- 'Miracle tree' substance produces clean drinking water inexpensively and sustainably
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