Plant Meat Matters kicks off to enable industrial-scale plant protein production
In the Netherlands, the Plant Meat Matters project, a four-year, public-private partnership kicked off to study the appearance, texture, taste and sustainability benefits of...
Precision Tools, Drones, Robots Not Just for Techies and Advanced Ag Anymore – High...
In New York, a report called “Beyond the Ships: 2020-2025” created by over 100 experts as part of the U.S. 2016 National Ocean Exploration...
Big Data Being Used to Help Paralyzed Patients Regain Movement
In Ohio, researchers are using big data in a new way to help patients to regain some movement and function in their paralyzed limbs....
Rotting leaves are contributing to global warming
In Michigan, Michigan State University scientists have pinpointed a new source of nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas that’s more potent than carbon dioxide –...
UK funds program that pairs bioscience PhD students with industry
In Scotland, the Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre has been awarded GBP2.7 million by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council’s Collaborative Training Partnership to...
Hummingbird receives development funding for AI-enabled real-time crop imagery
In the UK, SmithsonHill Ltd invested an undisclosed amount in Hummingbird, a start-up focused on precision farming, to enable the next generation development of...
A single dose of psilocybin mushrooms reduces mental anguish in cancer patients for months
In New York, NYU Langone Medical Center researchers showed that when combined with psychological counseling, distressed cancer patients that took a single dose of...
National Farmers Union says withdrawing from the Paris Agreement hurts farmers and ranchers
In Washington, D.C., Roger Johnson, president of the National Farmers Union, said President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement rejects science and...
New urine test knows everything you ate
In the United Kingdom, researchers from Imperial College London, Newcastle University and Aberystwyth University developed a five-minute urine test that measures the breakdown of...
AeroVironment commissions UAV research to detect water stress in almond trees
In California, AeroVironment, Inc. began a year-long study with California State University, Fresno to research how unmanned aerial vehicle imagery and analytics could potentially...
