Scientists from the Quadram Institute and the UK Health Security Agency have discovered that bacterial populations remain stable on the factory floor despite cleaning efforts in ready-to-eat food production facilities.
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 3, 2024
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People depend on natural ecosystems of trees, grasses and shrubs to capture carbon from the atmosphere and pull it underground to slow the decline toward climate-change disaster. Ironically, these same protected spaces also ...
Environment
Apr 3, 2024
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Scottish researchers are discovering new ways of combating environmental damage caused by acid mine drainage in Scotland by studying bacteria that can degrade dangerous waste products.
Ecology
Apr 3, 2024
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Honey bees—plump, fuzzy, and famed for their honey-making—capture the popular imagination. Yet, wild bees are equally vital for pollination and, by some measures, outshine honey bees as pollinators. This is why UBC researcher ...
Ecology
Apr 3, 2024
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Scientists have determined the structure of a new material with the potential to be used in solar energy, batteries, and splitting water to produce hydrogen.
Analytical Chemistry
Apr 3, 2024
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Most Americans report having personally experienced the effects of extreme weather, according to new survey data from the Annenberg Public Policy Center that finds support for pro-environmental government policies meant to ...
Political science
Apr 3, 2024
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Small loans can help people establish and expand their small businesses. A field study in Ghana has now revealed that men ask for and receive more money from microcredit companies than women. However, if women are better ...
Social Sciences
Apr 3, 2024
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Research has investigated compulsive online shopping behavior in India, with a specific focus aimed at unzipping the triggers and antecedents related to the purchase of jeans. The research is published in the International ...
Social Sciences
Apr 3, 2024
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Nitrogen is a nutrient essential for all life on Earth. Although nitrogen gas (N2) is plentiful, it is largely unavailable to most organisms without a process known as nitrogen fixation, which converts dinitrogen to ammonium—a ...
Evolution
Apr 3, 2024
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A poultry facility in Michigan and egg producer in Texas both reported outbreaks of avian flu this week. The latest developments on the virus also include infected dairy cows and the first known instance of a human catching ...
Veterinary medicine
Apr 3, 2024
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