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Precision farming data offers archaeologists new insights

In the United Kingdom, a University of Bristol study suggests that developments in precision farming could yield data of great use to archaeological research,...

New study supports earlier findings that omega-6 fatty acids alleviate inflammation

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Dipstick technology extracts DNA and RNA in 30 seconds, without a lab

In Australia, a new dipstick technology that enables pathogen detection and the rapid diagnosis of human, animal and plant disease in even the most...

Amazonian natural psychedelic improves a sense of wellbeing

In the United Kingdom, ayahuasca, a psychedelic drug traditionally used in South America, has been shown to improve people’s general sense of wellbeing and...

To know when a plant is thirsty, print a sensor right on the leaf

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Iridium kills cancer cells without harming healthy tissue

In the United Kingdom and China, researchers from the Professor Sadler and Professor O’Connor groups in Warwick’s Department of Chemistry and Professor Hui Chao's...

Common to humans, plants and animals, TOR protein is a cell growth regulator

In Germany, researchers studying the TOR protein discovered this protein also functions as a growth regulator in plants, just as TOR is known to...

Corals like the taste of plastic

In North Carolina, a Duke University study of plastic ingestion by corals suggests they are not mistaking it for prey like other marine animals...

Dramatic insect population declines in German nature reserves

In The Netherlands, the total biomass of flying insects has decreased by more than 75 percent in 63 nature reserves since 1989. In recent...

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