Atmospheric carbon dioxide is known to deplete the mineral content of plants, but how are carotenoid levels affected?
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Professor Mike Timko: Waste Should Be Viewed as a Resource
Achieving zero waste won’t be easy. But, I know for sure we’ll never achieve it without deliberate effort.
World Metrology Day: How NASA Lost a Satellite
How a mix-up between the imperial and metric systems resulted in a $193 million crash.
Spamming Science
Is electronic communication taking up too much of our time?
Humidity-Driven Motility in Feather Grass Awns
The Stipa awn uses a humidity-driven mechanism to disperse and self-bury its seed.
Next Generation Interactive Tool as a Backbone for Universal Access to Electricity
Electrification planning in rural areas and in developing countries most often relies on the outputs of specialized analytical tools that support geographically-referenced analyses
Smart Windows Use Plasmons to Adapt to Sunlight Alone
Smart windows switch between transparent and opaque states based on environmental cues. Researchers reveal a prototype that exploits plasmons, converting incident sunlight into local thermal energy to trigger the switch.
Unexpected Ecological Advances Made Possible by Long-Term Data: A Coweeta Example
Ecological shifts and regime changes driven by slow ecological processes can only be revealed by long-term monitoring and analysis.
Landscape Organization and Scale Shape Catchment Hydrology and Biogeochemistry
Resolving these scale-dependent processes is important for predicting, preventing, or mitigating environmental changes that may influence patterns of surface water chemistry within river systems.
Heat-Triggered Release: Opening the Banksia Seed Pod
The Banksia delays the release of its mature seed bank until conditions are right for new plants. Now we know what triggers it to let go.
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