As Climate Change Delivers Extended Dry Spells, Tropical Crops may Suffer
Climate change may cause longer, hotter, and drier spells in regions throughout the world, threatening vital global crops over the next 50 years. Climate change,…
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Mark Zuckerberg takes thinly-veiled shots at Apple for ‘stifling innovation’ via its platform policies
When discussing his intentions for the metaverse during today’s keynote speech at the company’s Facebook Connect 2021 event, Facebook (aka “Meta”) CEO Mark Zuckerberg took…
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Goes Far Deeper Than We Thought
The Great Red Spot is the solar system’s greatest atmospheric vortex. For at least two millennia, a storm the size of our whole planet has…
Indications of a hot market abound as Freshworks, Toast price IPOs
The announcement that Klarna is waiting for better market circumstances before going public seemed a little strange. Today, hesitancy to go public strikes me as…
Hacking lettuce for taste and profit
The scent is the first thing you notice,” Henry Sztul, Bowery Farming’s chief science officer, exclaims. “Does it have that odor?” As you approach Farm…
Getting the details right in your pitch deck
UCs scan pitch decks rapidly, which means that every element has the power to convince them to invest in a company or pass it over…
Can LEDs ultimately replace the sun?
Agriculture has a 10,000-year history, and it is mostly a technological history. Crop yields have continually risen thanks to innovations ranging from the plow and…
Electrical Tremors and Mental Health Disorders Have a Common Link, According to Brain Monitoring
The Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London conducted a new review of current literature and discovered that irregular brain responses…
For Silicon Photonics, Quantum Dots Enable Infrared Lasing at Room Temperature
The way we communicate now is governed by lasers, which produce light in a single direction with photons moving at a single frequency and all…
African Grey Parrots may be Better at Delaying Gratification than Macaws
According to research published in the journal Animal Cognition, African grey parrots may be better at delaying satisfaction than macaws, rejecting an immediate reward in…
Barium Cyanide – a Chemical Compound
Barium cyanide is a chemical compound with the formula Ba(CN)2. It appears as a white crystalline solid. It is synthesized by the reaction of hydrogen…
Air Pollution with Fine Particulates is Linked to a Higher Risk of Dementia
University of Washington researchers discovered a relationship between air pollution and dementia using data from two big, long-running study projects in the Puget Sound region,…
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