Sustainable irrigation can feed billions, make agriculture resilient to climate change
Washington, DC— As climate change shifts precipitation patterns, irrigation can be a powerful tool for increasing the world’s food supply—feeding ...
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Indigenous peoples have shucked billions of oysters around the world sustainably
A new global study of Indigenous oyster fisheries co-led by Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History anthropologist Torben Rick and ...
Plastic-eating enzyme could eliminate billions of tons of landfill waste
An enzyme variant created by engineers and scientists at The University of Texas at Austin can break down environment-throttling plastics ...
Heat stress for cattle may cost billions by century’s end
ITHACA, N.Y. – Climate change poses a potentially devastating economic threat to low-income cattle farmers in poor countries due to ...
New economic model finds wetlands provide billions in filtration value
Southern Ontario wetlands provide $4.2 billion worth of sediment filtration and phosphorus removal services each year, keeping our drinking water ...
Quantum teleportation communicates the state of a single photon to a device with billions of atoms
Researchers at the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands and the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in Brazil ...
Billions of starless planets haunt dark cloud cradles
In Lovecraftian horror, the Universe is filled with “dark planets” ungraced by the light of a host star. New research ...
Now scientists can efficiently screen billions of chemical compounds to find effective new drug therapies
Key takeaways:Credit: USC Dornsife/Yekaterina Kadyshevskaya Key takeaways: New technology called “V-SYNTHES” uncovers more effective drug candidates in a fraction of ...
Efforts to restore Indonesian peatlands could save billions in wildfire costs
University of Leeds EMBARGO THURSDAY 02 DECEMBER 10:00 GMT (05:00 EST) 19:00 Japanese time / 21:00 Australian Eastern Daylight Time ...
The challenge of forest restoration: where to obtain tens of billions of quality seeds
With commitments to restore more than 47.5 million hectares of degraded land and forests by 2030, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia ...
Maritime rope could be adding billions of microplastics to the ocean every year
The hauling of rope on maritime vessels could result in billions of microplastic fragments entering the ocean every year, according ...
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How to MRI your dragon: Illinois researchers develop first bearded dragon brain atlas
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Immune molecules from a llama could provide protection against a vast array of SARS-like viruses including COVID-19, researchers say
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Researchers perform non-line-of-sight ghost imaging with human vision
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Unique blend of comics and humor is key to success of public awareness posters in Singapore, finds Singapore-US researchers
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Human urine-derived stem cells have robust regenerative potential
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Researchers develop word-score model capable of estimating hidden hearing loss