Landmark research shows 'spillover' mechanism for the rare but fatal Hendra viruses. Australian flying foxes host a virus called Hendra, which has spilled over into people and can cause a rare but deadly respiratory infection.Credit: Auscape/Universal Images Group/Getty " Hey, men, could you open your wings and show me?" states Peggy Eby, looking up at a...
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain For many years, researchers have seen improved photosynthesis as one of the only feasible bright sides of increasing degrees of climatic carbon dioxide (CO2) -- since plants use CO2 for photosynthesis, it is expected that greater degrees of the gas will lead to much more effective plants. In an evaluation published in...
Credit: Unsplash Specialists say that vegetables and fruit in stores will be smaller and look different as the summer's hot and dry climate impacts crops. Carrots, Potatoes, Brussels sprouts, apples, and onions are prone to be the most affected. Several locations of the UK have seen extremely low rain in 2022, and parts of England remain in...
Credit: flight global. Tickets are getting more expensive Air France-KLM shared Monday that it would include an additional charge of 12 euros ($13,50) to its tickets to counter the expense of using more expensive sustainable aviation fuel. Air France claimed that the fuel fee would be added to tickets from January 10. Passengers in coach will pay around...
A new study reveals how male fruit fly decides to a court or ignore female – Harvard Gazette. news.harvard.edu Think development is a slow, gradual process? Inform that to fruit flies. In a brand-new report in Scientific research, researchers from the College of Pennsylvania used a regulated field experiment to reveal that flies swiftly adapted...
All over the world, farming methods have been established as a feature of topography, soil type, plant kind, yearly rainfall, and custom. This mosaic of six images from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Discharge and Representation Radiometer (ASTER) sensing unit on NASA's Terra satellite shows differences in field geometry and size in different parts of...
Credit: Vladislav Tchakarov Human beings unexpectedly changed around 13,000 years ago. Hunter-gatherer societies began to transform their lifestyle quickly. They began to construct permanent settlements and focused their efforts on farming. The earliest man-made megalithic structures around were also constructed around this period. Was a comet collision the reason behind this fast advancement of human...
Normal potato harvest (on the left) next to growth-enhanced potato harvest (on the rigth). Source: Qiong Yu et. al. New research from the University of Chicago, Peking University, and Guizhou University reveals that infusing a gene linked to human obesity and fat inside crops might assist them in growing larger and ampler. Adjusting plant RNA is...
The most up-to-date winners to be awarded a total of ₤ 14.5 m funding via the Farming Innovation Development Pathways competition, an initiative of the UK government, have been revealed. The competitors are a collaboration between UKRI's Changing Food Production (TFP) difficulty and the Department for Setting, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) Farming Technology Programme (FIP). The winning projects: Autobot In this...
French caricature (from 1885): German chancelor Bismarck divides the African continent among the colonial powers. Credit: AKG/Picture Alliance The concept of development was introduced during the colonial era. European countries began to colonize 'non-European' countries. According to Philip McMichael, colonialism is "the subjugation of one culture through physical and psychological tactics by another- a colonizing...
