While crop yield has achieved a substantial boost from nanotechnology in recent years, alarms over the health risks posed by nanoparticles within fresh produce and grains have also increased. In particular, nanoparticles ...
Bio & Medicine
Jun 16, 2021
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Our ability to confront global crises, from pandemics to climate change, depends on how we interact and share information.
Social Sciences
Jun 14, 2021
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As meat-eating continues to increase around the world, food scientists are focusing on ways to create healthier, better-tasting and more sustainable plant-based protein products that mimic meat, fish, milk, cheese and eggs.
Other
Jun 4, 2021
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While examining the prevalence of listeria in agricultural soil throughout the U.S., Cornell University food scientists have stumbled upon five previously unknown and novel relatives of the bacteria.
Cell & Microbiology
May 18, 2021
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Food scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have made an antibacterial gel bandage using the discarded husks of the popular tropical fruit, durian.
Biochemistry
Mar 25, 2021
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Some of the most popular meat dishes worldwide revolve around the Swedish meatball. In 2015, for example, IKEA alone sold 2.9 million Swedish-style meatballs every single day. To many they are versatile and delicious, but ...
Environment
Mar 24, 2021
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Research from North Carolina State University shows that extreme weather events, such as hurricanes and increased precipitation, affect both the amount and the composition of picophytoplankton in the Neuse River Estuary. ...
Environment
Jan 25, 2021
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43
A first-of-its-kind, international study of 107,000 children finds that higher temperatures are an equal or even greater contributor to child malnutrition and low quality diets than the traditional culprits of poverty, inadequate ...
Environment
Jan 14, 2021
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Reactive molecules, such as free radicals, can be produced in the body after exposure to certain environments or substances and go on to cause cell damage. Antioxidants can minimize this damage by interacting with the radicals ...
Polymers
Jan 8, 2021
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94
A new study is sounding the alarm on the impact climate change could have on one of the world's most vulnerable regions.
Earth Sciences
Oct 9, 2020
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