Monthly Archive: May 2018
Science Contributor
The horse-chestnut leaf miner, Cameraria ohridella (Lepidoptera, Gracillariidae), is a major pest of horse-chestnut trees (Aesculus hippocastanum) in Europe. This little moth (only 5mm long)…
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Kate Broome
If you keep up with current events you have undoubtedly heard about Hawaii’s volcanic eruption that has been unfolding for the past couple weeks. The images…
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About two million hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) occur in the US every year, which leads to up to 100,000 annual deaths. Approximately one-third of these infections…
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Brazilian agriculture plays a major role in the world’s grain production, as the country has rapidly ascended to the position of 2nd largest soybean producer…
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The impacts of climate change are already being felt by farmers in many parts of the world. As such, it is important for us to…
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Daniel Nelson
Creating a 3D animal cell project is a great way to model and familiarize yourself with all the various organelles that make up an animal cell….
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Daniel Nelson
Back in December of 1997, NASA’s Galileo probe made a close pass over Jupiter’s moon Europa. A new study done on the data collected from…
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Mohendra Shiwnarain
A pill to cure the hangover may soon be available after clinical trails see success treating the condition. It is no secret that the world…
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Daniel Nelson
The global transition to a low-carbon energy economy needs to capture the flexibility of technological developments (from solar PV development and battery storage to the…
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Muscles play an important role in protecting our bodies. They act as a cushioning layer covering most of our brittle skeleton and fragile visceral organs….
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Nowadays, conjugated organic polymers have various applications in the field of low-cost and flexible optoelectronic devices [1-5] viz. organic field effect transistors (OFETs), organic light-emitting…
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