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Space salad

February 18, 2019
Researchers are developing self-contained planters with the aim of growing beans in space in 2021. The planters, developed by researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), regulate...

Fast food

February 7, 2019
Speed breeding isn't a new concept but it could be crucial to ramping up food production in Europe in the light of recent rulings on gene editing… Regardless of where...

A very complex disturbance

January 14, 2019
Given what we know about how impactful humans have been on the environment, the idea that we actually influence natural selection doesn’t seem controversial. But the truth could well be...

£24m from NERC

January 11, 2019
Around £24 million in funding has been allocated under the fourth round of National Environment Research Council highlight topics. The funding will be split between 14 research projects covering climate...

European wheat unprepared for climate change

January 10, 2019
Current breeding programmes and cultivar selection practices of European wheat crops are unprepared for increasingly variable weather conditions, according to new research.Based on thousands of observations of wheat cultivars in...

Melting ice sheets pump out methane

January 9, 2019
The emission of tons of methane from the Greenland Ice Sheet is evidence of a widespread subglacial microbial system, according to an international research team.Using novel sensors, researchers led by...

Chachani mountain

January 8, 2019
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission snapped this image of the Chachani mountain in Peru. Standing at over 6000m, Chachani is the tallest of the mountains near the Peruvian city of Arequipa.

UN biodiversity targets give false sense of achievement

December 19, 2018
UN biodiversity targets are structured to give a false sense of conservation achievement, according to a new research paper.The scientific team, led by the California Academy of Sciences, found that...

The Colours of Iron

December 11, 2018
'The Colours of Iron' (Lochaber, Scotland) by Ursula Lawrence took the third place) in the Geological society's 2018 Earth Science Week photography competition, 'Earth Science in our Lives.'

Raise your game and a glass

November 16, 2018
Scientific advisor to proficiency testing at Fapas, Mark Sykes, discusses the benefits of proficiency testing and how this applies to wine testing laboratories The global wine market is predicted to grow...

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