EU takes step towards recycled packaging
An EU push towards bloc-wide rules on recyclable packaging to cut plastic and other waste got initial support in the European Parliament on Tuesday.
An EU push towards bloc-wide rules on recyclable packaging to cut plastic and other waste got initial support in the European Parliament on Tuesday.
Environment
Oct 24, 2023
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Cadmium (Cd), a toxic heavy metal contaminant of cultivated land, is harmful to humans through its accumulation in crops, especially rice. Therefore, strategies to limit Cd accumulation in rice grains are urgently needed. ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Mar 13, 2023
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Many complex systems have underlying networks: they have nodes which represent units of the system and their edges indicate connections between the units. In some contexts, the connections are symmetric, but in many they ...
Mathematics
Sep 8, 2020
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Metastasis, in which cancer cells break free from the primary tumor and form tumors at other sites, worsens the prognosis for many cancer patients. The lymph nodes—glands of the immune system located throughout the body—are ...
Bio & Medicine
Aug 14, 2019
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A proteomics-based protein-protein interaction study has led to the discovery of proteins that interact with a legume receptor that mediates signal transduction from the plasma membrane to the nucleus. This shows how symbiotic ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 1, 2019
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In the fairy tale "Goldilocks and the Three Bears," Goldilocks invades the bears' house, where she finds three bowls of porridge, but only one has just the right temperature. Similarly, in biological processes, there often ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 15, 2018
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Legumes can grow in nitrogen-poor soils due to their ability to engage in symbiosis with nitrogen-fixing bacteria. There is a great interest in using the knowledge about this symbiosis to enable transfer to other non-symbiotic ...
Biotechnology
Jul 6, 2018
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There is an increasing demand for distributing large amounts of digital information to vehicles on the move. However, the current widely used cellular networks are not sufficient due to limited bandwidth in dense vehicle ...
Computer Sciences
Jun 28, 2018
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Network theory is a method for analyzing the connections between nodes in a system. One of the most compelling aspects of network theory is that discoveries related to one field, such as cellular biology, can be abstracted ...
A theoretical framework explaining the risk of rare events causing major disruptions in complex networks, such as a blackout in a power grid, has been proposed by a mathematician at Queen Mary University of London.
General Physics
Feb 28, 2018
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