Highly nondegradable chemicals such as PFAS and pesticides can have useful properties in some situations, but are extremely difficult for nature to remove afterwards. Now researchers from Aarhus University have found that ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 9, 2023
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The RNA molecule is commonly recognized as messenger between DNA and protein, but it can also be folded into intricate molecular machines. An example of a naturally occurring RNA machine is the ribosome, that functions as ...
Bio & Medicine
Feb 27, 2023
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Soil can store carbon. Therefore, there is also an increasing focus on soil organic carbon content and how to either increase or maintain it. This is because soil can also lose carbon in the form of climate gases from microbial ...
Ecology
Jan 31, 2023
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New sustainable protein sources with low environmental impact are needed, if we are to meet environmental and climate concerns in food supply. Therefore, researchers from the Department of Agroecology have studied two nitrogen-fertilized ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 26, 2023
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Clover-grass mixtures are popular because they do not need to be fertilized as much as pure grass crops. Indeed, legumes such as white and red clover are self-sufficient in nitrogen. They can simply fix nitrogen from the ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 26, 2023
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In the mountains of southeastern Zimbabwe lie the ruins of the first major city in the southern Africa. The place is known as Great Zimbabwe. The name Zimbabwe itself means "the big stone house" in the Shona language, and ...
Archaeology
Jan 26, 2023
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Humans and animals all have chemical and microbial signatures that influence their well-being in one way or another. In medicine, the use of probiotics rather than antibiotics has become high on the agenda. However, humans ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 25, 2023
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Imagine a hot and dry summer day, it might have been dry and hot for a long time. The birds are singing and the irrigation machines in the fields are running at full speed. But what does irrigating crops really mean for farmers' ...
Ecology
Jan 25, 2023
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Climate change is considered one of the most pressing problems of our time. In this context, soil plays a greater role than might be expected. Soil can simultaneously store CO2 from the atmosphere and emit CO2 through microbial ...
Ecology
Jan 25, 2023
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Legume plants do not depend on externally supplied nitrogen, because they can form a symbiosis with nitrogen-fixing bacteria, called rhizobia. The plants recognize the nitrogen-fixing bacteria and allow them to colonize specially ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jan 25, 2023
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