As picturesque as winter weather can be, snowy scenes often present a less desirable, slippery companion: ice. It coats our roadways, clings to windshields and serves as a general hurdle in daily life during the coldest months ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jan 24, 2023
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A drop in oxygen levels, even when temporary, can be critical to brain cells. This explains why the brain is equipped with oxygen sensors. In a study published in Current Biology, researchers from Japan and the United States ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 30, 2022
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Plant growth is strongly shaped by environmental conditions like light, humidity, drought and salinity, among other factors. But how plants integrate environmental signals and the developmental processes encoded in their ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 26, 2019
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Implementing a new residential wood ash program to restore calcium levels in Muskoka's forest soils and lakes could help replenish the area's dwindling supply of crayfish and maple sap, according to new research co-led by ...
Environment
Mar 28, 2019
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Kidney stones—solid, pebble-like grit that forms when too much of certain minerals like calcium are in the urine—can strike men, women, and increasingly, children, and the presence and pain of stones afflicts more than ...
Biochemistry
Oct 10, 2018
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Maintaining a balance between rising sea levels and soil accumulation will rely on careful management of coastal regions.
Environment
Jul 18, 2018
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A test to determine whether bitter pit—a disorder that blindsides apple growers by showing up weeks or months after picking—will develop in stored Honeycrisp apples was developed by a team of Penn State researchers, promising ...
Ecology
Oct 19, 2017
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Serotonin is best known for eliciting feelings of happiness in the human brain, but scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found the hormone plays a role in milk production in dairy cows—and may have health ...
Other
Jul 25, 2016
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Daily infusions with a chemical commonly associated with feelings of happiness were shown to increase calcium levels in the blood of Holstein cows and the milk of Jersey cows that had just given birth. The results, published ...
Other
Jul 15, 2016
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Researchers from Queen's University, working with colleagues from the Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change, have linked the localized near-extinction of a native crayfish species in four lakes in Algonquin ...
Environment
Oct 28, 2015
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