For plant breeding, it is important to create as many combinations as possible of genetic variants within a short time to select the most suitable candidates between plants with many different characteristics. The working ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 29, 2021
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The COVID-19 pandemic has taught the world that our supply chains are fragile and vulnerable to disruptions. Panic-buying and product hoarding, like the irrational run on toilet paper in the early stages of pandemic, cause ...
Economics & Business
Nov 24, 2021
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Widely accepted myths that urbanization negatively impacts food and land use biodiversity are incorrect, according to a team of researchers who developed a framework for evaluating this intersection. Their results could also ...
Ecology
Nov 19, 2021
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On the eve of the G20 meeting in Italy, the CMCC Foundation—Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change releases the G20 Climate Risks Atlas. Impacts, policy, economics, a series of Country Factsheets which summarizes scientific ...
Environment
Oct 28, 2021
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Halloween. Valentine's Day. Easter. Throughout the year, US stores are stocked with rotating confections such as chocolates, gummies, and hard candies.
Environment
Oct 28, 2021
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Polyfluoroalkyl and perfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, are a class of man-made chemicals that break down slowly in the environment, can accumulate in the human body and have been linked to all manner of negative health effects ...
Environment
Oct 21, 2021
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Starting decades ago as fashionable, high-value gourmet greens, today microgreens have gained popularity among consumers for their nutritional profile and high content of antioxidant compounds. Now, a new study suggests that ...
Agriculture
Sep 29, 2021
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A team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Michigan have discovered that certain bacteria can steal an essential compound from other microbes to break down methane and toxic ...
Biochemistry
Sep 27, 2021
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In many North American lakes, a tiny clawed creature has become a big bully. The invasive rusty crayfish roams lakebeds, snapping up snails, bivalves, and water plants, cutting off food supplies for native crayfish and other ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 27, 2021
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Cloudy liquid bubbling in glass tubes is key to a US startup's hopes of remaking the pet food industry by growing nutritional meals in a lab.
Other
Sep 15, 2021
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