A new chemistry method from scientists at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, greatly simplifies the creation of an important class of compounds called hindered ethers, which are integral to many drugs and commercial ...
Materials Science
Sep 09, 2019
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Feeding the world's growing population is one of the great challenges of the 21st century. This challenge is particularly pressing in China, which has 22% of the world's population but only 7% of the global cropland. Synthetic ...
Environment
Sep 05, 2019
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A group of researchers may have found a way to reverse falling crop yields caused by increasingly salty farmlands throughout the world.
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 22, 2019
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It's time to take soil seriously. As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change states with very high confidence in its latest report, land degradation represents "one of the biggest and most urgent challenges" that humanity ...
Environment
Aug 13, 2019
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Weeds are pesky in any situation. Now, imagine a weed so troublesome that it has mutated to resist multiple herbicides. Palmer amaranth, a member of the pigweed family, is spreading across states and growing in strength. ...
Other
Aug 07, 2019
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An interdisciplinary research collaboration between the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge has engineered a novel synthetic plant-microbe signaling pathway that could provide the foundation for transferring nitrogen fixation ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 31, 2019
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Just days after another federal agency suspended its periodical study of honey bee populations, the EPA greenlighted the wider use of a pesticide that environmental activists warn could further decimate the pollinators.
Ecology
Jul 15, 2019
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The uneven impact of climate change is actually helping corn and soybean farmers in the Upper Midwest.
Environment
Jul 12, 2019
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Research for the benefit of food security: A new line of barley achieves good crop yields even under poor environmental conditions. It has been bred by a research team from Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), ...
Biotechnology
Jul 10, 2019
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A new computer model incorporates how microscopic pores on leaves may open in response to light—an advance that could help scientists create virtual plants to predict how higher temperatures and rising levels of carbon ...
Biotechnology
Jul 09, 2019
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