Water-use efficiency (WUE) is one of the most important indicators of the strength of the carbon-water coupling for ecosystems and plants. The annual WUE patterns among different types of forests have been widely reported. ...
Plants & Animals
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Returning the biomass from logging to the soil and planting legume cover crops enable rapid restoration of the main soil functions, just 18 months after clear-cutting of an aging rubber plantation. A team of scientists has ...
Ecology
Dec 20, 2021
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A piece of corrugated rubber can function as a simple computer, displaying memory and displaying the ability to count to two. Physicists at Leiden University and the AMOLF research institute in Amsterdam researching mechanical ...
Materials Science
Dec 13, 2021
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Enzymes are capable of degrading synthetic polyisoprene. The specific conditions for that have now been created and exploited by researchers at Martin Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) and the Leibniz Institute of ...
Materials Science
Dec 9, 2021
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Researchers have discovered a new way to make crystals stretchy, a modification that could enable them to act as very effective nanofilters.
Materials Science
Dec 7, 2021
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Using a new microspectroscopic technique, collaborating scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Nanjing University in China have found that steam disinfection of silicone-rubber baby bottle nipples exposes ...
Bio & Medicine
Nov 29, 2021
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All aspects of people's lives are now bound to a "seemingly unlimited supply of cheap and readily disposable" petrochemicals, a new essay argues.
Economics & Business
Oct 21, 2021
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Monocentromeres are typical for the chromosomes of most animals and plants. The centromere is necessary for the transport of the chromosomes and represents the connection point between the chromatids. This is how the classic ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 6, 2021
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The future environmental footprint of the tire industry could be substantially shrunk thanks to a new ecofriendly way found by four RIKEN researchers that harnesses bacteria to make a chemical used in synthetic rubber.
Biochemistry
Aug 6, 2021
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According to statistics, rubber plantations have covered more than 2 million ha in the tropics in the last decade globally. It has improved the economic status of farmers, but altered the habitat's ecology and ecosystem functions. ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 20, 2021
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