As farmers around the globe look to grow food more sustainably—with less water, fertilizer, pesticides and other environmental impactors—the use of cover crops is becoming more popular. These crops, which are often grasses ...
Plants & Animals
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A team of scientists, including Chief Investigator Ilya Mandel from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) at Monash University, recently studied what happens to rotating massive stars when ...
Astronomy
Jun 11, 2020
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Some metal oxides, such as nickelates, have a tuneable resistivity, which makes them an interesting material for adaptable electronics and cognitive computing. These materials can change their nature from metallic to insulating. ...
General Physics
Jun 11, 2020
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Which forces and mechanisms determine the height of mountains? A group of researchers from Münster and Potsdam has now found a surprising answer: It is not erosion and weathering of rocks that determine the upper limit of ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 11, 2020
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An infection with Chagas disease is only possible in Latin America since the insect species that spread the disease only occurs there. Scientists at Goethe University and the Senckenberg Society for Natural Research have ...
Ecology
Jun 11, 2020
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The next steps for an ambitious and collaborative project which aims to improve how inshore fisheries are managed in the UK have been published.
Ecology
Jun 11, 2020
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During this pandemic, there are countless voices urging Americans to engage in the kind of civic behaviors that keep us all safe, like social distancing and frequent hand washing. These voices come at the national, state, ...
Social Sciences
Jun 11, 2020
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Breeding plants for specific characteristics goes back thousands of years. For most of that time, the process has been slow and tied to the agricultural cycle. Farmers identified plants with desirable traits, harvested seeds ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 11, 2020
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In the future, camera lenses could be thousands of times thinner and significantly less resource-intensive to manufacture. Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, now present a new technology for making ...
Optics & Photonics
Jun 11, 2020
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Cancers cells use a special technique to propagate: They delete their "programmed death" gene through mutation, and seemingly "forget" to die when their lifetime is over, and continue to grow instead. A research team from ...
Biochemistry
Jun 11, 2020
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