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
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An international team of scientists with Fridgeir Grímsson from the University of Vienna has found a previously unknown fossil fly species in old lake sediments of the Messel Pit, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Germany. ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 11, 2021
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There's a better end for used food than taking up space in landfills and contributing to global warming.
Environment
Jan 28, 2021
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If you asked people which group of animals is the most abundant on earth, hardly anyone would know the right answer. Ants? Fish? No, and not humans either. The answer is nematodes, also known as roundworms. Four out of five ...
Ecology
Jan 14, 2021
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University of Delaware Professor of Entomology Doug Tallamy published a new research study in Nature that systematically identifies the most critical plants needed to sustain food webs across the United States. Alongside ...
Ecology
Dec 14, 2020
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Scientists from Disruptive & Sustainable Technologies for Agricultural Precision (DiSTAP), an Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT's research enterprise ...
Nanomaterials
Dec 2, 2020
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Blame it on the bison.
Archaeology
Nov 23, 2020
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Many plants, including legumes, make naturally occurring chemicals called saponins. For example, the medicinal plant licorice produces the saponin glycyrrhizin, a potent natural sweetener that also has antiviral and other ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 16, 2020
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An area double the size of the UK is used to produce dry pet food for cats and dogs each year, a study shows.
Environment
Oct 8, 2020
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New findings about the building blocks of plant fibers open the door to advances in material engineering as well as food and agriculture, a Swedish-Australian research collaboration reported. The findings, published today ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 17, 2020
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