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Taking advantage of an enzyme mutation to help soybeans fight a billion-dollar pest

Beneath the surface of soybean fields, an invisible threat is costing farmers billions. Now, researchers at the University of Missouri are uncovering how nature itself may hold the key to fighting back. The soybean cyst nematode—a microscopic worm that attacks plant roots and sip

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Escaped flowerhorn fish threaten biodiversity, pose potential public health risks in Lagun

A hardy aquarium fish prized for its golden hue, the ornamental Flowerhorn cichlid (Amphilophus spp.) has become a problem for the residents of San Pablo City, Laguna: It is increasingly taking on an outsized role in both the natural ecosystem and local aquaculture operations in

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Mammals use the same underlying system—preserved through evolution—to process smells

Picture a mouse taking rapid, staccato sniffs of a crumb it's found while foraging for food. Now compare that with a human leaning in for a single, deep inhale to gauge whether a cantaloupe is ripe. New research from Northwestern University has found that, like humans, mice also

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Europe's baked rice bowl seeks escape from drought

Summer came too early to Europe's most important rice-growing region, and weeds are taking over Sharon Angoli's parched paddies in Italy's Pavia province.

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From ‘heat panic’ to ‘sacrificed at the altar’: Europe’s air conditioning culture wars hea

Cooling down has become political amid record highs, as experts say row is distracting from work of protecting livesAs the afternoon heat rose to a dizzying 41.7C (107F) in eastern Brandenburg on Sunday, taking German temperatures to unprecedented highs, Mario, 65, took precautio

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‘Why take those jobs away?’: the unionized workers decrying Trump’s war on wind

Workers proud of their efforts to grow renewable energy say US president pursuing ‘personal vendetta’ at their expenseDonald Trump has blamed everything – from “national security” issues, the deaths of birds and whales, and cancer – in his decades-long campaign against windfarms.

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Traces of Earth's primordial magma ocean discovered in lava from a modern volcanic eruptio

In May 2018, the island of Mayotte, between Madagascar and Mozambique, began to experience a series of earthquakes that led to the discovery of an underwater volcano, now called Fani Maoré. Multiple scientific expeditions followed, taking samples of the recently erupted lava. Whe

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Is the decline of newspapers taking the pressure off of corporate social responsibility pr

Local newspapers have long played a quiet but powerful role in corporate accountability: They scrutinize company behavior and give public visibility to good corporate citizenship. But as local newspapers continue to disappear, that accountability system weakens—and companies chan

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The South African trailblazers seeking to change how wildlife documentaries are made

National Geographic explorers create dive lab after finding too few black film-makers telling African wildlife storiesWhen Pragna Parsotam-Kok and Noel Kok made a wildlife series for South African TV in 2015, they were struck by how challenging it was to access animals to film an

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Chemists make elusive carbon-bridged sandwich molecule once thought too strained to exist

Progress in chemistry is often gradual, with some of its most important advances taking years—sometimes decades—to unfold. A case in point is the discovery of a novel "ferrocenophane" from the class of compounds known as "sandwich molecules"—so named because of their particular s

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UK in ‘firewave’ as extreme heat provides ideal conditions for wildfires, experts warn

National Fire Chiefs Council say emergency services dealing with 19 wildfires across Britain, many near urban areasThe UK is in the grip of a “firewave”, as the summer’s extreme heat produces the ideal conditions for wildfires, scientists and environmentalists have warned.A parti

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Tecnologia

Artemis 2: oficial da NASA revela tensão durante passagem pelo lado oculto da Lua

Enquanto os quatro astronautas perdiam comunicação com controle da missão por 40 minutos, uma equipe em Houston acompanhava o voo com ansiedade, sem possibilidade de contato com a tripulação O post Artemis 2: oficial da NASA revela tensão durante passagem pelo lado oculto da Lua apareceu primeiro em Olhar Digital.

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