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Alga ‘superfood’ comes with scaling up challenges, say scientists
A common freshwater species of algae packed with nutritional benefits could be the next agricultural ‘superfood’, claim researchers from the University of Birmingham.
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Alga ‘superfood’ comes with scaling up challenges, say scientists
A common freshwater species of algae packed with nutritional benefits could be the next agricultural ‘superfood’, claim researchers from the University of Birmingham.
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Electron diffraction: A technique suggesting radically new things
Crystallography mainly relies on diffraction techniques and the most recent of them, electron diffraction, is gaining increasing attention. Dr Eric Hovestreydt discusses why nanocrystallography using…
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Scents-ibly sustainable
Rather than plundering scarce natural resources, Glasgow University scientists Hua Wang and Sofia Sandalli are looking to the lab for a more ethical approach to perfume production.
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In agro: field labs and farmer-led research
The Innovative Farmers not for profit network brings together farmers and growers with researchers to enable field trials (pun intended). A decade’s worth of on-farm trial results demonstrate farmer-…
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Water droplet
This amazing image – Crack Patterns I, by Thomas Séon – shows a water droplet falling onto a silicon substrate at -36°C...
