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phys.org | 11/20/2018 | Staff
Different subpopulations of a plant species can have distinct traits, varying in size, seed count, coloration, and so on. The primary source of this variation is genes: different versions of a gene...
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Screen | 3/11/2011 | Staff
Ken Watanabe and Koichi Sato will star in Fukushima 50, Kadokawa Corporation’s upcoming action drama about the 2011 meltdown of Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and the on-site workers...
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Roadshow | 11/18/2018 | Andrew Krok
The last we heard about Mazda and Toyota building a joint-venture factory was in January, when the news was first announced. Now, less than a year later, they've already broken ground.
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phys.org | 11/15/2018 | Staff
Researchers have outlined a plan to detect and report changes in global biodiversity. The monitoring of species traits will improve natural resource management. Biological diversity is crucial for...
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Mail Online | 11/16/2018 | Joe Pinkstone For Mailonline
Plants capable of surviving disease, drought and climate change will be made possible by 'speed-breeding', scientists have claimed. The technique, first developed by Nasa, subjects crops to 22 hours...
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Mail Online | 11/16/2018 | Colin Fernandez Environment Correspondent For The Daily Mail
Nine out of ten councils are failing to recycle plastic plant pots, a study reveals. The vast majority of the estimated 500million pots used in Britain each year end up being incinerated or sent to...
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Mail Online | 11/15/2018 | Colin Fernandez Environment Correspondent For The Daily Mail
Britain needs to plant more trees, eat less meat and scrap woodburning stoves to help stop global warming, the Government’s climate advice body warned today. A report by the Committee on Climate...
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ScienceDaily | 11/12/2018 | Staff
Thomisus nepenthiphilus is found only in the slender pitcher plant Nepenthes gracilis, which is native to Singapore and can also be found in Indonesia, Borneo, and Malaysia.
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phys.org | 11/12/2018 | Staff
Two recent studies by ecologists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have shed light on the relationship between the slender pitcher plant and its 'tenant', the crab spider Thomisus...
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phys.org | 11/6/2018 | Staff
Scientists at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science in Japan have found that the protein NGA1 is critical for plants to have normal responses to dehydration.
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Live Science | 11/11/2018 | Staff
CHICAGO — Drinking a cup of tea or eating a handful of berries a day may help protect against heart disease, a new study suggests. The research, presented here yesterday (Nov.
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phys.org | 11/8/2018 | Staff
In the dramatically changing conditions of ancient Earth, organisms had to evolve new strategies to keep up. From the mid-Oligocene, roughly 30 million years ago, to the mid-to-late Miocene, about 5...
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phys.org | 11/8/2018 | Staff
Epigenetic changes can bring about new traits without altering the sequence of genes. This may allow plants to respond quicker to changes in their environment. Plant biologists at the University of...
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ScienceDaily | 11/8/2018 | Staff
In 2017, Americans drank nearly 4 billion gallons of tea, according to the Tea Association of the USA. The association estimates that up to 18 percent of those drinks were decaffeinated.
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phys.org | 11/9/2018 | Staff
Behold the common house plant, the front-yard shrub, the rhododendron around back that's seen better days since the next-door neighbors put their home on the market.
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phys.org | 11/8/2018 | Staff
Tea drinkers who seek the popular beverage's soothing flavor without its explosive caffeine jolt could soon have a new, naturally low-caffeine option. In a study appearing in ACS' Journal of...
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phys.org | 11/8/2018 | Staff
Americans use rare earth elements (REEs) every day—without knowing it. In fact, they are crucial to society. Rick Honaker, professor of mining engineering at the University of Kentucky, knows all...
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ScienceDaily | 11/7/2018 | StaffResearchers have long believed that falling carbon dioxide levels drove the origin of plants with this innovation, but a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, based on...
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EurekAlert! | 11/6/2018 | Staff
IMAGE: A common fern leaf view more The remains of a medieval skeleton has shown the first physical evidence that a fern plant could have been used for medicinal purposes in cases such as alopecia,...
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phys.org | 11/6/2018 | Staff
Taiwan-based electronics manufacturer Foxconn is struggling to find enough skilled workers for its planned facility in Wisconsin and may bring in personnel from China, the Wall Street Journal...
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Mail Online | 11/6/2018 | Press Association;Phoebe Weston For Mailonline
Drilling will start this week at what could become the UK's first deep geothermal electricity plant in Cornwall. Two wells will be drilled through hot granite rock near St Day, the deepest of which...
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ScienceDaily | 11/5/2018 | Staff
Imagine what happens when you forget to water your plants for a week or two. More often than not, they will still be fine after you give them water again. This seems simple enough, but it is...
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phys.org | 11/5/2018 | Staff
French tyre manufacturer Michelin announced plans Monday to close a Scottish manufacturing plant with 845 employees due to growing competition from cheeper products in Asia.
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www.oann.com | 3/27/2018 | Staff
CAIRO (Reuters) – Saudi’s crown prince on Monday launched a project to build the first nuclear research reactor in the kingdom, the Saudi Press Agency reported. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman...
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ScienceDaily | 11/5/2018 | Staff
The skeleton of a male aged between 21 and 30 years found buried in the medieval necropolis of Can Reiners on the Spanish Balearic Islands, had traces of starch grains consistent with cereal plants,...
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phys.org | 10/31/2018 | Staff
Cells are the building blocks of life that grow and divide to create all living things. But how cell growth and division is integrated to form structures such as plant leaves has until now remained...
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The Daily Caller | 11/2/2018 | Staff
A Louisiana-based energy company has been slapped with a $5 million fine over a scheme that involved allegedly paying actors to show up to a hearing and pretend to support the construction of a...
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phys.org | 11/1/2018 | Staff
A Purdue University professor has built an innovative handheld sensor that gives plant scientists and farmers a more precise way of measuring the health of crops while gathering up-to-the-minute...
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3D Printing Industry | 10/5/2018 | Beau Jackson
Tekna, a Canadian producer of metal powders for additive manufacturing, has increased its production capabilities with the expansion of new manufacturing infrastructure, in Sherbrooke, Quebec.
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Ron Edmondson | 10/31/2018 | Ron Edmondson
I’ve worked with a lot of church plants. And, I’ve been involved in two church plants as the planter. Every planter goes into the process hoping to see lives changed with the Gospel. Hoping to grow.
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3D Printing Industry | 10/30/2018 | Beau Jackson
By combining a digital supply chain and additive manufacturing, Uniti Sweden is a startup seeking to change the way we make cars. This month, the startup announced plans to launch a pilot production...
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ScienceDaily | 10/29/2018 | Staff
A recent study from the University of Illinois and Gebze Technical University in Turkey provides a new way of thinking about cold stress in plants that goes beyond the traditional approach of...
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ScienceDaily | 10/29/2018 | StaffA study led by environmental engineer Daniel Cohan analyzed models that measure the effects of emissions from 13 coal plants in Texas. Along with their conclusions on the modeling systems themselves,...
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phys.org | 10/29/2018 | Staff
Bioinformatician Gustavo Caetano-Anolles from the University of Illinois, along with colleagues from Gebze Technical University in Turkey, has described the plant cold stress response in Arabidopsis...
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ScienceDaily | 10/29/2018 | Staff
In a study published today in Nature Climate Change, lead author William Riley demonstrates how to improve climate models to more accurately represent land biogeochemical dynamics.
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phys.org | 10/29/2018 | Staff
A Japan-based research team led by Kanazawa University has isolated 17 secondary metabolites, including three novel compounds from the valuable endangered tropical plant species Alangium longiflorum.
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phys.org | 10/29/2018 | Staff
In plants, the cell wall acts like a skeleton, providing support and stability, and also like muscle, passing water from the ground all the way to the highest leaves and branches.
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ScienceDaily | 10/26/2018 | Staff
In the late 1980s and 1990s, the Natural Products Branch (NPB) of the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI, Frederick, MD) supported the collection of ca. 80,000 plant samples from tropical areas in...
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Mail Online | 10/26/2018 | Dailymail.com Reporter
Steam was spotted escaping a Washington nuclear plant on Friday morning, leading employees to 'take cover' as a precaution. The steam stirred alarm around 6am at the Hanford nuclear waste site that...
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ScienceDaily | 10/26/2018 | Staff
"Xylem is an important resource for land plant biomass. Modifications of xylem cell differentiation are important for strategies to improve plant biomass resources," believes Demura.
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phys.org | 10/25/2018 | Staff
Plant scientists at Iowa State University have shed new light on a genetic pathway that influences both plant growth and disease resistance, making it a promising target for breeding new crop...
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phys.org | 10/25/2018 | Staff
The US aerospace giant Boeing opened its first manufacturing plant in Europe on Thursday, giving a boost to Britain's business credentials ahead of its impending exit from the European Union.
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phys.org | 10/25/2018 | Staff
Plant roots rely on local production of a key hormone that controls many aspects of development and response to environmental changes, according to new research from North Carolina State University.
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www.oann.com | 2/13/2013 | StaffNITRA, Slovakia (Reuters) – British carmaker Jaguar Land Rover expects to reach annual production of 100,000 cars at its plant in Slovakia by 2020, the chief executive of the newly opened factory,...
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ScienceDaily | 10/24/2018 | Staff
"Nitrogen metabolism is incredibly important for growth," said Siobhan Brady, associate professor of plant biology at UC Davis and senior author on the paper. The invention of nitrogen fertilizers...
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www.theregister.co.uk | 10/24/2018 | Staff
A malware infection at a Saudi petrochemical plant last year was likely the work of a Moscow-based research operation backed by the Russian government. Security shop FireEye says this week it is...
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www.oann.com | 6/14/2018 | Staff
PARIS (Reuters) – For two years Airbus faced a shortage of engines and had to slow jet deliveries. Now engines are arriving fast – but snags at a Hamburg plant where Airbus assembles best-selling...
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phys.org | 10/22/2018 | Staff
Defend or grow? Can plants do both at the same time? Michigan State University scientists might be inching closer to answering these questions. The answers matter.
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Rare | 10/18/2018 | Silke Jasso
A Smithfield Foods employee in Virginia is being accused of urinating on the production line while handling products. According to authorities, the incident occurred at the packing plant in...
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ABC News | 10/19/2018 | Staff
Russian President Vladimir Putin and the president of Uzbekistan have agreed that Russia will build the ex-Soviet republic's first nuclear power plant. During Putin's visit to the Uzbek capital of...
Tornado Coming in Laramie! This classic stovepipe in Laramie is causing some havoc as it continues on its way looking very...
Short, But Torrential Downpour in Nevada! This microburst drops lots of water on the Nevada landscape!
361 Golden Retrievers Celebrating 150 Year Anniversary of the Breed! Golden Retrievers are beautiful dogs and so many in one...
Fish in a Pit Ambushes Another Fish That Comes By to Investigate! The narrators of this video are taken aback at the surprise...
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