Botany Hungry for Fungi? New Thinking Reveals Nature’s Bounty (Botany) 24 Feb 2021 A new system for evidence-based mushroom classification seeks to reduce poisoning events and clarify edibility status, according to a review published this year. Researchers from the Kunming Institute of Botany of…
Nature Human Borders Threaten Wildlife As Climate Changes (Nature) 13 Feb 202113 Feb 2021 Human-made borders like the USA-Mexico border wall could make it difficult for almost 700 mammal species to adapt to climate change. Our scientists have identified 32,000km of borders fortified with…
Nature Generating Electricity: The Price of Carbon Certificates Must Increase (Nature) 13 Feb 2021 Economist at FAU has calculated which strategy is most effective for reducing CO2 emissions Energy market researchers at FAU, the Vienna University of Economics and Business in Austria and the…
Chemistry Molecule From Nature Provides Fully Recyclable Polymers (Chemistry) 5 Feb 2021 Plastics are among the most successful materials of modern times. However, they also create a huge waste problem. Scientists from the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) and the East China…
Agriculture… New Nature Plants Study Introduces SpRY to Enable the Mutation of Nearly Any Genomic Sequence in Plants (Botany / Agriculture) 22 Jan 2021 UMD Associate Professor Named a Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher for 2020, Expands Plant Genome Editing Potential with a Newly Engineered Variant of CRISPR-Cas9. Alongside Dennis vanEngelsdorp, associate professor at…
Engineering Squid-inspired Robot Swims With Nature’s Most Efficient Marine Animals (Engineering) 21 Jan 2021 Scientists at the University of Southampton and University of Edinburgh have developed a flexible underwater robot that can propel itself through water in the same style as nature’s most efficient…
Material science Conductive Nature in Crystal Structures Revealed at Magnification of 10 Million Times (Material Science) 16 Jan 2021 In groundbreaking materials research, a team led by University of Minnesota Professor K. Andre Mkhoyan has made a discovery that blends the best of two sought-after qualities for touchscreens and…
