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An a-maize-ing path out of poverty

October 02, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

(PhysOrg.com) -- Across Tanzania and elsewhere in Africa, processing the corn harvest is labor intensive: Families and friends gather to spend a day or two filling bags with the dried cobs, beating then to ...


This is your grid on brains

October 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 19 vote(s) | User comments: 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Managing power networks in the future may involve a little more brain power than it does today, if researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology succeed in a new project that ...


Pterodactyl-inspired robot to master air, ground and sea

October 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 8 vote(s) | User comments: 1

Paleontologist Sankar Chatterjee of Texas Tech University, aeronautical engineer Rick Lind of the University of Florida, and their students Andy Gedeon and Brian Roberts have reached back in time 115 million ...