From the toilet to the sink: water recycling battles scarcity
Would you take a swig of water from your faucet if it originally came from the sewer?
Would you take a swig of water from your faucet if it originally came from the sewer?
Environment
Aug 10, 2021
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A new methodology for comparing herbal medicine across societies can also be used to understand the transfer of cultural traditions.
Plants & Animals
Apr 1, 2019
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The German cabinet signed off Monday on a bill phasing out nuclear power in Europe's biggest economy by 2022, prompted by the disaster in March at Japan's Fukushima plant.
Energy & Green Tech
Jun 6, 2011
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The whitefly is a major problem for open field tomato cultivation throughout the world. Scientists of Wageningen UR together with a number of partners have discovered genes for resistance to the whitefly in a wild relative ...
Biotechnology
Sep 11, 2012
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A collaborative team led by Prof. Bai Yang and Prof. Chu Chengcai from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), recently examined the variation in root microbiota within 68 indica ...
Plants & Animals
May 1, 2019
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A team of scientists led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has developed a device that can deliver electrical signals to and from plants, opening the door to new technologies that make use of ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 16, 2021
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River systems are essential resources for everything from drinking water supply to power generation—but these systems are also hydrologically complex, and it is not always clear how water flow data from various monitoring ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 7, 2020
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A team including Dartmouth researchers has uncovered a protein that plays a vital role in how plant roots use water and nutrients, a key step in improving the production and quality of crops and biofuels.
Biotechnology
Aug 12, 2013
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Their service is invaluable. The army of insects and other animals that pollinates the numerous plants of this earth has an essential function. Without these flower visitors, numerous wild plants could reproduce only poorly—or ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 3, 2023
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Pesticides are not new and are definitely not a human invention. Plants and other microorganisms have used chemicals to defend themselves from other organisms for hundred thousands of years.
Plants & Animals
Sep 4, 2019
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