Agriculture

Why Do Plants Wiggle? Scientists Solve Age-Old Mystery That Puzzled Charles Darwin

Why Do Plants Wiggle? Scientists Solve Age-Old Mystery That Puzzled Charles Darwin

Science
Dr. Thomas Hughes

Physicists have discovered that the chaotic movements of growing sunflowers, known as “circumnutations,” help the plants search for sunlight, leading to efficient ...

Is papaya good for you? Nutrients and how often you can eat it

Is papaya good for you? Nutrients and how often you can eat it

Health
Sarah Carter

These fruits and vegetables contain the fewest toxins According to the Environmental Working Group (EWG), .a whopping 70 percent of non-organic fruits ...

Ground-up chicken waste fed to cattle may be behind bird flu outbreak in US cows

Ground-up chicken waste fed to cattle may be behind bird flu outbreak in US cows

Health
Sarah Carter

“The flu can be spread by faecal-oral routes, and so it’s not an impossible scenario that chickens who are infected with H5N1 ...

Breakthrough Could Reduce Cultivated Meat Production Costs by up to 90%

Breakthrough Could Reduce Cultivated Meat Production Costs by up to 90%

Science
Dr. Thomas Hughes

A breakthrough in cellular agriculture, enabling bovine cells to produce their own growth factors, promises significant cost reductions in cultivated meat production. ...

Distinguishing between driver and passenger mechanisms of aging

Distinguishing between driver and passenger mechanisms of aging

Science
Dr. Thomas Hughes

Woodcox, A. Aristotle’s theory of aging. In Cahiers des Études Anciennes 65–78 (2018). de Magalhães, J. P. In An Introduction to Gerontology ...

Primate-specific ZNF808 is essential for pancreatic development in humans

Primate-specific ZNF808 is essential for pancreatic development in humans

Science
Dr. Thomas Hughes

Subjects The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and all subjects or their parents/guardian gave informed written consent ...