Agriculture

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How Plants Make Sound—Ultrasonic Clicks You Can't Hear Science

How Plants Make Sound—Ultrasonic Clicks You Can't Hear

Stressed plants emit ultrasonic clicking sounds through a process called xylem cavitation. Recent research shows these clicks carry information about...

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How the Pesticide Cocktail Effect Works—and Why It Matters Health

How the Pesticide Cocktail Effect Works—and Why It Matters

Pesticides deemed safe individually can become harmful when combined in real-world mixtures. The cocktail effect explains why regulators are rethinkin...

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How Invasive Species Spread—and Why They're Hard to Stop Science

How Invasive Species Spread—and Why They're Hard to Stop

Invasive species cost the global economy over $423 billion annually and drive 60% of recorded extinctions. Here's how they arrive, why they thrive, an...

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How Microbial Fuel Cells Work—Electricity From Dirt Science

How Microbial Fuel Cells Work—Electricity From Dirt

Microbial fuel cells harness bacteria that naturally release electrons as they digest organic matter, turning soil and wastewater into small but stead...

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How Glacier Protection Laws Work—and Why They Matter Science

How Glacier Protection Laws Work—and Why They Matter

Glaciers store about 75% of Earth's freshwater and supply water to nearly two billion people. A small but growing number of countries have passed laws...

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How Fishing Quotas Are Set—and Why They Often Fail Science

How Fishing Quotas Are Set—and Why They Often Fail

Fishing quotas are meant to prevent overfishing, but the process that turns scientific advice into catch limits is riddled with political compromise....

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How El Niño Works—and Why Super Events Hit Harder Science

How El Niño Works—and Why Super Events Hit Harder

El Niño is a recurring climate pattern driven by warming waters in the tropical Pacific that reshapes weather worldwide. Here is how the ocean-atmosph...

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How the Haber-Bosch Process Feeds Half the World Science

How the Haber-Bosch Process Feeds Half the World

The Haber-Bosch process turns atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia for fertilizer, sustaining nearly half the global population — but its massive carbon...

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How Farm Robots Work—and Why Agriculture Needs Them Technology

How Farm Robots Work—and Why Agriculture Needs Them

Agricultural robots use computer vision, AI, and GPS to plant, weed, and harvest crops autonomously. As farm labor shrinks and demand grows, these mac...

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Foot-and-Mouth Disease Spreads in Cyprus and Greece, Slovakia Sends Aid Health

Foot-and-Mouth Disease Spreads in Cyprus and Greece, Slovakia Sends Aid

A year after its own outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, Slovakia is sending four veterinarians to help Cyprus, where nearly 30,000 animals have been...

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How Pollen Feeds Honeybees—and Why They're Starving Science

How Pollen Feeds Honeybees—and Why They're Starving

Pollen is the only solid food honeybees eat, providing proteins, fats, and critical sterols they cannot produce themselves. As flower diversity shrink...

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How Harmful Algal Blooms Work—and Why They Spread Science

How Harmful Algal Blooms Work—and Why They Spread

Harmful algal blooms poison water, kill marine life, and cost economies billions. Here is how they form, what makes them toxic, and why they are growi...

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