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Why climate change could make staple crops less nutritious—and how CRISPR may help

At present, more than 700 million people live with caloric hunger, and more than 2 billion suffer from micronutrient deficiencies, known as "hidden hunger." By prioritizing high yield over nutritional quality, global calorie production has increased while exacerbating vitamin and

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Ultra-precise technology can count damaged DNA fragments

The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science has developed an ultrasensitive immunoassay-based analytical platform that can detect and quantify trace amounts of "Small Excised Damaged DNA (sedDNA)" fragments generated during cellular DNA repair. This technology enables h

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O que fazer ao identificar focos de cigarrinha-do-milho na lavoura?

Foto: Divulgação. Denílson Almeida Dias, de Montes Claros (MG), relata preocupações com a cigarrinha-do-milho; engenheiro agrônomo explica que a praga não afeta pastagens O post O que fazer ao identificar focos de cigarrinha-do-milho na lavoura? apareceu primeiro em Canal Rural.

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Temporais, termômetros abaixo de 0ºC e chuva de até 200 mm marcam a semana

Foto: InmetMassa de ar polar e frente fria geram condições severas no Sul, enquanto demais regiões convivem com pancadas de chuva e altas temperaturas O post Temporais, termômetros abaixo de 0ºC e chuva de até 200 mm marcam a semana apareceu primeiro em Canal Rural.

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‘Literally growing the future’: volunteers help save Scottish rainforest by collecting 11m

Teams painstakingly combed endangered Atlantic habitat over several years, helping to grow 8m native treesA small band of volunteers has helped to grow nearly 8m native trees in Scotland, crucial to efforts to restore lost parts of the Atlantic rainforest, after collecting 11m se

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Scrolling for science: How a Twitter post discovered a new wasp in Fukuoka, Japan

The next time you post a nature photo online, you might be contributing to a major scientific breakthrough—just as several citizen scientists did when they helped discover the wasp Eupelmus curvator in Japan.

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Portugal braces for high temperatures in new heat wave

Parts of Portugal, including the Lisbon region, will be placed on red alert after being relatively spared from Europe's worst heat wave, which set records in several countries.

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Defra breached law when it let farmers use bee-killing pesticide, watchdog says

Office for Environmental Protection finds failures by department when it granted emergency authorisation in 2023 and 2024The UK government breached environmental law on several occasions when granting farmers permission to use a bee-killing pesticide, a watchdog has found.In 2023

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Could this asteroid be a piece of the moon? A Chinese spacecraft is about to find out

The moon is not the only natural object traveling through space alongside Earth. Several small asteroids travel around the sun in near lockstep with our planet. And just like Earth, these space rocks also take a year to complete a full orbit. Today, we know of eight such "quasi-m

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Colony connections determine ant wound care: Transitional workers treat injured nestmates

Patients in hospitals generally trust the nursing staff. After all, they have undergone training and, in some cases, have several years of professional experience. In the case of carpenter ants, it is not nursing expertise that determines who cares for the patients.

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'This was something new': What people in Greenland told us about learning to live with wil

After several quieter years, wildfires have returned to western Greenland. O recorte ajuda a contextualizar a pauta dentro de Agro.

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Wild yeast discovery enables non-GM brewing of ornithine-enriched craft beer

As consumer interest grows in foods and beverages with added nutritional value, brewers are exploring ways to improve fermentation itself rather than relying on post-production additives. Ornithine, a naturally occurring amino acid involved in several biological processes, has at

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