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Top Stories | February 11
  • Science & the Public: Bt: The lesson not learned
    The more things change, the more they stay the same, as a Dec. 29 Associated Press report on genetically engineered corn notes. Like déjà vu, this news story on emerging resistance to Bt toxin — a fabulously effective and popular insecticide to protect corn — brings to mind articles I encountered over the weekend while flipping through historic issues of Science News. More than a half-century ago, our magazine chronicled, real time, the emergence of resistance to DDT, the golden child of pest controllers worldwide. Now much the same thing is happening again with Bt, its contemporary agricultural counterpart. Will we never learn?
  • Flirty Plants
    Searching for signs of picky, competitive mating in a whole other kingdom
  • Science & the Public: Fishy fat from soy is headed for U.S. dinner tables
    Most people have heard about omega-3 fatty acids, the primary constituents of fish oil. Stearidonic acid, one of those omega-3s, is hardly a household term. But it should become one, researchers argued this week at the 2011 Experimental Biology meeting.
  • Supersizing pumpkins
    Engineers gain insight into the extreme growth of gargantuan gourds.
  • Science & the Public: Gloves may head off ‘garden’ variety pneumonia
    Compost feels so good, sifting through a gardener’s fingers. Unfortunately, data are showing, this soil amendment can host a germ responsible for Legionnaire’s disease, a potentially serious form of pneumonia.
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Science & the Public: Gloves may head off ‘garden’ variety pneumonia
Compost feels so good, sifting through a gardener’s fingers. Unfortunately, data are showing, this soil amendment can host a germ responsible for Legionnaire’s disease, a potentially serious form of pneumonia.
Evergreen source of Tamiflu
Pine and spruce needles brim with flu-drug precursor.
Most energy drinks lag in added health benefits
Many caffeinated tonics lack natural antioxidants and other beneficial compounds found in coffee, yerba maté and other plant-based drinks.
Chlorophyll gets an ‘f’
New variety of photosynthetic pigment is the first to be discovered in 60 years
Deleted Scenes: Explosions, mushroom clouds — all good for short moss
BLOG: Sphagnum reproduces with a bang that compensates for life so close to the ground.
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