‘Green Nobel’ for forest champion
A campaigner who was jailed during his battle to save the rainforest in Gabon has received a top international award. Marc Ona Essangui was honoured for his fight to stop what he describes as a destructive mining project in the Ivindo National Park. He is …
Animal Survival In Inherited Habitats
ScienceDaily — Researchers are exploring how inheriting favorable or unfavorable habitat affects the overall rise and fall of animal populations. For some animal species, inheriting habitat may play as much of a role in survival as inheriting intelligence, fertility, camouflage or other genetically transferred characteristics. …
New Nucleotide In DNA Could Revolutionize Epigenetics
ScienceDaily — Anyone who studied a little genetics in high school has heard of adenine, thymine, guanine and cytosine – the A, T, G and C that make up the DNA code. But those are not the whole story. The rise of epigenetics in the …
Program Pemberian ANUGERAH HaKI
Bersama ini disampaikan informasi yang ditawarkan oleh DP2M tentang “Program Pemberian ANUGERAH HaKI” Informasi lengkap tentang kriteria penilaian, pedoman dll dapat diakses di : http://www.anugerahkekayaanintelektual.com/index.php/pages/kontak TTDLPPM IPB Program Pemberian ANUGERAH HaKI Latar Belakang Dalam rangka menindak lanjuti Instruksi Presiden pada sidang kabinet dan hasil keputusan …
Three Neanderthal Sub-groups Confirmed
ScienceDaily — The Neanderthals inhabited a vast geographical area extending from Europe to western Asia and the Middle East 30,000 to 100,000 years ago. Now, a group of researchers are questioning whether or not the Neanderthals constituted a homogenous group or separate sub-groups (between which …
Birds: Feather Color Is More Than Skin Deep
ScienceDaily — Where do birds get their red feathers from? According to Esther del Val, from the National History Museum in Barcelona, Spain, and her team, the red carotenoids that give the common crossbill (Loxia curvirostra) its red coloration are produced in the liver, not …
Ciptakan Keberagaman Makanan
KESEHATAN anak pada masa pertumbuhan juga dipengaruhi dari tingkat konsumsi yang harus diperhatikan orangtua.Untuk menghindari malanutrisi, maka konsumsi keberagaman makanan sangat dianjurkan. Data pada 2007 menyebutkan bahwa jumlah anak balita penderita gizi kurang sekitar 4 juta anak. Dengan jumlah gizi buruk adalah sebesar 700.000 anak …
HPP Gula 2009 Belum Pro Petani
SURABAYA(SI) – Para petani gula berharap harga pokok penyanggaan (HPP) gula untuk musim giling 2009 yang ditetapkan sebesar Rp5.350 per kilogram bisa direvisi. Meski bisa diterima,harga ini dinilai masih di bawah hitungan Dewan Gula Indonesia. ”Kalangan petani tebu berharap lebih dari itu. Masalahnya, berdasarkan hitungan …