Plants can help spruce up a home or office space, but claims about their ability to improve the air quality are vastly overstated, according to research out of Drexel University. A closer look at decades of research suggesting ...
Environment
Nov 6, 2019
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Researchers at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT) in Japan and Mount Allison University in Canada have developed a more efficient method to produce the building blocks needed for antibiotics and cancer ...
Materials Science
Sep 12, 2019
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It has long been assumed that Indigenous Australia was isolated until Europeans arrived in 1788, except for trade with parts of present day Indonesia beginning at least 300 years ago. But our recent archaeological research ...
Archaeology
Apr 11, 2019
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A team of researchers with the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics and the Brandenburgisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archaeologisches Landesmuseum, both in Germany, has found evidence that ...
Fisherman Jake Bunch leans over the side of the fishing boat "Sadie K," spears his catch, and reels it aboard: an abandoned crab pot, dangling one limp lasagna noodle of kelp and dozens of feet of rope, just the kind of fishing ...
Ecology
Sep 14, 2017
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Garden and potted plants with white spots on their leaves are so popular that they are specially selected for this feature. An international research team has now identified a new mutation in the plant Lotus japonicus which ...
Biotechnology
May 5, 2017
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A pair of filmmakers at the prestigious TED Conference used virtual reality to allow people to experience the ravages of deforestation—from the perspective of a tree.
Environment
Apr 28, 2017
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Bags of potting soil have become love hotels and nurseries for the highly invasive coconut rhinoceros beetle on the island of Guam.
Ecology
Dec 21, 2016
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Marijuana-friendly Uruguay will soon have a museum dedicated to pot.
Other
Dec 6, 2016
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An inter-disciplinary team of scientists and archaeologists have discovered widespread evidence of prehistoric milk production in southern Europe.
Archaeology
Nov 15, 2016
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