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Self-watering soil could transform farming

November 9, 2020
News
They say water is set to become more valuable than oil, with water scarcity becoming one of the most pressing challenges for many nations across the globe. For centuries, humanity...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials
Biology, Botany, Developmental Biology, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Environmental, Food & Bev, Food Science, Materials, Materials Science, Soil Science
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Feeding the world

October 2, 2020
Feature
An international team of researchers led by Mario Herrero at CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, investigated 75 emerging technologies to help achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Botany, Earth & Environmental, Environment, Environmental, Food & Bev, Food & Beverage, Food and Drink, Food Science, Health, In Depth, Medical/Health
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Machine Learning provides insight into cannabis strains

September 30, 2020
News
Cannabis data lacking, but machine learning could help THC and CBD; Anyone who has used, sold, studied or even read much about marijuana likely recognises these acronyms as active ingredients...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Botany, Developmental Biology, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Health, Health & Safety, Life Sciences, Medical/Health, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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Cannabis use for menopause symptom management

September 29, 2020
News
As legislation relaxes regarding cannabis, it is being used to manage numerous chronic health conditions and mood symptoms. A new study indicates that a growing number of women are either...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Biology, Botany, Developmental Biology, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Health, Life Sciences, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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Improving the luck of the horseshoe crab

September 21, 2020
Feature
Following some recent media controversy, Allen Burgenson, and Glenn Gauvry update our original July 2015 coverage and give us the real story behind the acceptance by the major Pharmacopeia of...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Botany, Cell Biology, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Earth & Environmental, Environment, Environmental, Haematology, Health, Immunology, In Depth, Life Sciences, Marine Biology, Medical/Health, Microbiology, Pathology, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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Fungus leather: new front-runner for sustainable clothing material

September 9, 2020
News
In a new review paper by the University of Vienna, Imperial College London, and RMIT University in Australia, researchers argue that leather made from fungi has "considerable potential" to be...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials
Biology, Botany, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Environmental, Materials, Materials Science, Parasitology
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Biomimicry informs better sensors: just add noise

September 4, 2020
News
Adding noise to enhance a weak signal is a sensing phenomenon common in the animal world but unusual in manmade sensors. Now Penn State researchers have added a small amount...
Life Sciences
Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biophysics, Biotech, Botany, Physiology
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Elastic to kinetic energy conversion through biomimicry

September 4, 2020
News
Venus flytraps do it, trap-jaw ants do it, and now materials scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst can do it, too - they discovered a way of efficiently converting...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biophysics, Botany, Engineering, Environment, Physics, Zoology
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A truffle’s tale… 40 years in the making

August 7, 2020
News
As a first-year graduate student studying truffle ecology at Oregon State University, Dan Luoma attended a scientific meeting in 1981 on Orcas Island in Washington. Having recently learned how to...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Botany, Environment
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Laboratory News podcast – life on the back of a turtle with Dr Jeroen Ingels

August 5, 2020
"I didn't realise that it is basically impossible to stop a turtle physically... it just rolls you over"
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Botany, Environment, Marine Biology, Parasitology, Podcasts, Zoology
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