Diagnosing plant disease is essential to meet the world's growing food demand, which is expected to increase with a population of 9.1 billion by 2050. Diseases can reduce crop yields by 20–40%, so early detection is critical. ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Nov 27, 2023
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Remember "COVIDiots" and the first protests by "anti-vaxxers"?
Social Sciences
Nov 27, 2023
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For the past few decades, physicists and materials scientists around the world have been busy developing computer codes that simulate the key properties of materials, and they can now choose from a whole family of such tools, ...
Condensed Matter
Nov 14, 2023
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Twitter users in areas affected by major hurricanes discussed climate change much more frequently right after the hurricane, according to a study published November 23, 2023 in the open-access journal PLOS Climate by Maddalena ...
Social Sciences
Nov 14, 2023
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Returning land to original Indigenous owners has long been a personal and family interest to Sarah Deer. As the #landback movement has gained momentum on social media in recent years, Deer and a fellow University of Kansas ...
Social Sciences
Nov 9, 2023
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By analyzing the frequency of certain words within mainstream news media from any country, a machine learning algorithm can produce a quantitative "peace index" that captures the level of peace within that country, according ...
Political science
Nov 1, 2023
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You might think that bats are scary. But do you know what would be even scarier? To live in a world without them. Bats are key providers of ecosystem services, and their disappearance would translate into enormous economic ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 30, 2023
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The heterogeneous photocatalysis (HPC) based Advanced Oxidation Process (AOP) is an eco-friendly technique for purifying water from organic and biological pollutants in environmental systems. The photocatalysts' overall catalytic ...
Nanomaterials
Sep 28, 2023
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A research team led by Shuilin Wu at Tianjin University, China, has made a discovery in the field of intelligent catalysis. Their research article titled "Biomimetic Macrophage–Fe3O4@PLGA Particle-Triggered Intelligent ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 28, 2023
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Wind energy is, by far, the most common type of clean energy. And transitioning to clean energy is critical to addressing the climate crisis. Yet local opposition poses a significant barrier to the deployment of wind energy ...
Environment
Sep 25, 2023
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