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Climate change is giving old trees a growth spurt
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Larch trees in the permafrost forests of northeastern China — the northernmost tree species on Earth — are growing faster as a result of climate change. A new study of …read more Source:: Science
Plastic’s carbon footprint
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From campaigns against microplastics to news of the great Pacific garbage patch, public awareness is growing about the outsized effect plastic has on the world’s oceans. However, its effect on …read more Source:: Science
A very small number of crops are dominating globally: That’s bad news for sustainable agriculture
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A new study finds that globally we’re growing more of the same kinds of crops, and this presents major challenges for agricultural sustainability on a global scale. …read more Source:: Science
GraphQL gets its own foundation
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By Paul Krill The Linux Foundation plans to host a foundation to support the GraphQL API project, with the intent of growing a neutral ecosystem for the technology. GraphQL is a specification for building …read more Source:: OpenSource
Cometh the cyborg: Improved integration of living muscles into robots
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Researchers have developed a novel method of growing whole muscles from hydrogel sheets impregnated with myoblasts. They then incorporated these muscles as antagonistic pairs into a biohybrid robot, which successfully …read more Source:: Science
Supersonic gas streams left over from the Big Bang drive massive black hole formation
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A super-computer simulation by an international team of researchers has shown the formation of a rapidly growing star from supersonic gas streams in the early universe left over from the …read more Source:: Science
The volatile processes that shaped Earth
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Although it is widely understood that Earth was formed gradually, from much smaller bodies, many of the processes involved in shaping our growing planet are less clear. Astronomers have now …read more Source:: Science
World’s oldest Italian wine just discovered
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Italian wine residue has been found from the Copper Age, debunking current belief wine growing and wine production in Italy developed during the Middle Bronze Age. …read more Source:: Science
New hydrogel can take organoids from dish to clinic
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Scientists have developed a gel for growing miniaturized body organs that can be used in clinical diagnostics and drug development. Organoids are miniature organs that can be grown in the …read more Source:: Science