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Some Plants Can Make Sounds Like Animals, Study Finds
What does a stressed plant sound like? A bit like the popping of a balloon. No, no, no joke. Researchers in Israel reported on 30 March in the journal Cell that tomato…
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Fish May Empathise Like Humans
You may have heard that ‘fish do not feel pain’. This is a common myth dating back to 17th century French philosophy. However, despite René Descartes’ many other valuable ideas, the scientific…
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Researchers Develop a Green Fuel by Producing Hydrogen from Water and Light
Researchers in the Department of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have designed silicon nanowires that can convert sunlight into electricity by splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen…
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Chinese Scientists Send Satellite to Help Turkey Earthquake
China has deployed several satellites to capture images of earthquake-hit areas in Turkey, helping the country better analyze the disaster situation and allocate relief resources, according to Chinese news company China Space…
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Microplastics Accumulating on the Seabed Triple in 20 Years
According to recent data, the total amount of microplastics accumulating at the bottom of the oceans has tripled over the past two decades, a progression that corresponds to the type and volume…
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Trees Can be Made to Bloom Earlier
When scientists want to improve a variety of vegetables, it takes a year, sometimes even ten years, to see changes. But now, a process developed by researchers at the University of Georgia…
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Why Are Flowers Important?
At the core of it, the reason flowers smell so good is rooted in plant biology. Like all forms of life, flowers and plants have a reproduction process that allows them to…
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Is Pink Snow Possible? Researchers Investigate
Do not say “Is pink snow possible?” because right now researchers in the US are trying to find out exactly that. And the results could be heavy.