A new fertilizer recommendation tool, developed nationally in collaboration with the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, could save farmers millions of dollars annually while reducing excess nutrient losses to the environment.
Californians vote on many ballot measures, but we almost never participate in significant public debates and discussions about the measures’ contents and impacts. This isn’t simply a result of apathy or poor civic education. Rather, it’s an example of “rational ignorance,” a term coined by the late Stanford-educated economist Anthony Downs in his 1957 book, An Economic Theory of Democracy. The term defines this democratic reality: since you have just one vote out of millions, your individual...
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Colleen Harmeling, a Florida State University College of Business researcher, points to photo filters, overly edited photos and other distortions of user-generated content as impediments to consumer trust. In turn, they are potential barriers to the performance of products that users present and discuss online.
Over the past four years, many of us have become accustomed to a swab up the nose to test for COVID-19, using at-home rapid antigen tests or the more accurate clinic-provided PCR tests with a longer processing time. Now a new diagnostic tool developed by UC Santa Cruz Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Holger Schmidt and his collaborators can test for SARS-CoV-2 and Zika virus with the same or better accuracy as high-precision PCR tests in a matter of hours.
“Preliminary results are encouraging,” he said, “showing that we may be able to use a heart medicine to help keep our patients’ hearts safe during radiotherapy to the chest. “I am delighted to have received this funding from Cancer Research UK, which means we will be able to do further testing of this medicine, and ultimately find out if this is a treatment we should give to patients with lung cancer. “Most patients diagnosed with lung cancer can't have an operation due to either the tumour...
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Roughly 480,000 tons of solid waste makes its way down New York City's drains and sewers every year. City officials need help figuring out what to do with all the sludge. The department is seeking strategies to deal with the solid waste extracted from its wastewater system. [ more › ]
Researchers from Western University developed techniques for creating images from old, badly tarnished photographs. These techniques could also be used to study other historic artifacts and fossils and prevent corrosion in modern materials.
Scientists have found that evolutionary adaptations and mental conditioning in humans may be the closest humans will come to what we consider ‘superpowers’
Maybe you can't get your pet to stop making messes in your home, but you can get better at cleaning up after them. Try these products and tools to make the process a little easier.