Inexpensive spring truffles or exquisite piedmont truffles?
Some truffles are particularly expensive and therefore often the target of food fraud. For example, high-priced Piedmont truffles (Tuber magnatum) are often difficult to distinguish...
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Methane emissions from landfill could be turned into sustainable jet fuel in plasma chemistry leap
New research could help create a circular economy for waste-generated greenhouse gas emissionsCredit: Image: Professor PJ Cullen, Dr Tianqi Zhang and Dr Emma Lovell. Methane...
Believing environmental damage is done by others can cause ‘race to the bottom’
A study shows that if communities think outsiders are stealing their forest resources, they are more likely to want to increase their own harvest.Credit: Matt...
Insilico Medicine moves its headquarters to Boston
Clinical-stage generative artificial intelligence (AI)-driven drug discovery company Insilico Medicine (“Insilico”) has announced that the Company will move its headquarters from New York to Boston....
Rice, Baylor College of Medicine centers jointly award seed grants
Rice University’s Synthesis X Center (SynthX) and Baylor College of Medicine’s Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center have jointly awarded their first innovation seed grants...
Low-intensity grazing is locally better for biodiversity but challenging for land users, a new study shows
The grazing of both domestic and wild animals is shaping landscapes across Europe. It can also contribute to multiple ecosystem services, such as providing habitat...
Biodegradable ‘living plastic’ houses bacterial spores that help it break down
A new type of bioplastic could help reduce the plastic industry’s environmental footprint. Researchers led by the University of California San Diego have developed a...
Loneliness grows as we age
CHICAGO --- Loneliness in adulthood follows a U-shaped pattern: it’s higher in younger and older adulthood, and lowest during middle adulthood, reports a new Northwestern...
Purdue-created technology makes 3D microscopes easier to use, less expensive to manufacture
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Researchers in Purdue University’s College of Engineering are developing patented and patent-pending innovations that make 3D microscopes faster to operate and...
Trotting robots reveal emergence of animal gait transitions
With the help of a form of machine learning called deep reinforcement learning (DRL), the EPFL robot notably learned to transition from trotting to pronking...
Coal emissions reductions and mortality in China
In 2012, China was the largest consumer of coal in the world. In 2013, the State Council of China issued the “China National Action Plan...
Great strides in the development of high refractive index polymers for optoelectronics
Optoelectronic devices have found their way into many aspects of our daily lives, from OLED displays to photodetectors, security systems, and environmental monitoring. In all...
Engineered increase in mesophyll conductance improves photosynthetic efficiency in field trial
It is possible to engineer increased mesophyll conductance in plants according to new research from the University of Illinois. Mesophyll conductance plays a key role in...
Abrupt permafrost thaw intensifies warming effects on soil CO2 emission
According to a recent study published in Nature Geoscience, scientists have found that soil carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are more sensitive to climate warming in...
Scientists discover over 100 new genomic regions linked to blood pressure
National Institutes of Health researchers and collaborators have discovered over 100 new regions of the human genome, also known as genomic loci, that appear to...
