Platinum has set a new "gold standard" in jewelry, and now it's about to upscale the quality of your water.
Materials Science
Jun 15, 2022
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Every day, plants around the world perform an invisible miracle. They take carbon dioxide from the air and, with the help of sunlight, turn it into countless chemicals essential to both plants and humans.
Plants & Animals
Jun 8, 2022
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The cuticle, the outermost part of a plant, which acts as the interphase between the plant and the environment, is becoming increasingly important in agriculture. It has already been shown that the cuticle has hydrologic ...
Plants & Animals
May 16, 2022
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Plants release chemical distress signals when under attack from chewing insects. These "911 calls," as entomologist Esther Ngumbi refers to them, alert other bugs that dinner or a nice place to lay their eggs is available ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 3, 2022
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Seagrasses play an important role in the climate. They are one of the most efficient sinks of carbon dioxide on Earth. A team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology now reports that seagrasses ...
Plants & Animals
May 2, 2022
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Adopting a novel planting technique known as "push-pull farming" can help massively reduce crop losses to pests and improve food security in sub-Saharan Africa, new research has found.
Ecology
Apr 12, 2022
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To paint a clearer picture of how global climate change will affect Earth's ecosystems, a team of 80 international research scientists set out to complete an unparalleled experiment: forcing the world's only enclosed rainforest—housed ...
Environment
Dec 16, 2021
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A team of researchers from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) and the Spanish National Research Council (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC) has developed genetically modified plants that ...
Evolution
Nov 17, 2021
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The fungus Fusarium verticillioides is one of the causes of red rot, the most serious sugarcane disease. Losses average around USD 1 billion per harvest in Brazil alone.
Plants & Animals
Jun 14, 2021
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One of the most prominent evils of rapid industrialization has been the emission of toxic pollutants into the surrounding biosphere, with often disastrous consequences for human beings. Several industrial processes, such ...
Materials Science
May 11, 2021
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