Increased hot and cold spells resulting from climate change could affect bread-making quality or seed quality for growing subsequent wheat crops, depending upon when they occur.
Environment
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When a Xenopus frog is deeply wounded, its skin can regenerate without scarring. Researchers have found that cells under the skin contribute to this regeneration after an excision injury.
Plants & Animals
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In the last decade, 7 million hectares of boreal forest in Eastern Canada have been destroyed by the voracious insect known as the spruce budworm. And the outbreak is heading south again this spring, leaving devastation and ...
Environment
Jun 16, 2017
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Winter days are usually less windy, but a new analysis shows turbines work harder on the coldest days, when power demand is highest.
Energy & Green Tech
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A giant, inflatable structure designed to prevent flooding in subways was rolled out, literally, for media observers inside a full-scale, mock subway tunnel. As the video shows, in under five minutes it is nearly filled with ...
Energy & Green Tech
Jun 16, 2017
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If we want to know whether there is life beyond Earth then the quickest way to answer that question is to explore Mars. That exploration is currently being done by remote space probes sent from Earth.
Space Exploration
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Rice is an important food source for a majority of the world population. Worldwide, on average around 60 kilograms of rice is consumed per year per person. Researchers from all over the world, including from the ITC Faculty ...
Biotechnology
Jun 16, 2017
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AIST has developed a one-pot synthesis technique that selectively forms siloxane bonds which form the main skeleton of organosilicon materials, in order to synthesize structurally well-defined siloxane compounds in one process.
Materials Science
Jun 16, 2017
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The Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite brings us over northwest India with this false-colour image captured on 4 March 2017.
Earth Sciences
Jun 16, 2017
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In a few years, an instrument designed and built by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers will be flying hundreds of millions of miles through space to explore a rare, largely metal asteroid.
Space Exploration
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