Does your salad know what time it is?
Biologists at Rice University and the University of California at Davis have found there may be potential health benefits to storing fresh produce under day-night cycles of light. In a new study this week in Current Biology, researchers used lighting to alter the circadian rhythms of cabbage, lettuce, spinach, zucchini, carrots, sweet potatoes and blueberries. The scientists showed how manipulation of circadian rhythms caused cabbage to produce more phytochemicals, including antioxidants.
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-06/ru-dys062013.php It's alive! The fresh salads you eat are still alive and producing chemicals according to circadian rhythms, which effects how many antioxidants they have when you eat them.www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-06/acs-aef061913.php Using wood as a substrate for batteries. Interesting.www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-06/uadb-sat061813.php Spurts of rapid climate change spurred development and selection of early technology by humans in South Africa.oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2013/jun/dam-construction-reduce-greenhouse-gases-causes-ecosystem-disruption Interesting study on the negative effects of small hydropower as opposed to big hydropower.www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-06/ysof-nss061713.php Predators in an ecosystem promote increased carbon storage by plants. Life is complicated.www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-06/uota-pat062013.php Important work on better instruments to do science.ht
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