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Support Local Seafood To Ensure Healthy Communities, Say Researchers

Eating local seafood can increase food system resilience in the area, as well as ensuring that communities can acquire nutritious food.
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Africa Has a Future in Rice Production, Say Researchers

Africa’s rice sector has major opportunities to increase its yield gains through improved agronomic practices while avoiding massive land conversion, a study by international scientists including a Husker co-investigator finds.
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Improving Fuel Cell Durability With Fatigue-Resistant Membranes

Vehicles speeding up and slowing down can cause cracks in fuel cells, but new fatigue-resistant membranes may help boost fuel cell durability.
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MXene-Coated Devices Can Guide Microwaves in Space and Lighten Payloads

Waveguides are the pipes that direct and focus electromagnetic waves in telecommunications satellites and terrestrial devices like microwaves and phones.
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Corn Genome's Collective Power Against Multiple Pathogens

Experimental corn lines with resistance to four pathogens have been developed., taking researchers a step closer to corn that can withstand changing disease dynamics.
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Producing Green Steel From Toxic Industrial Waste

Researchers have developed a new method for processing the waste created by aluminum production. The method extracts significant amounts of high-quality iron from the waste that can be used directly in steelmaking.
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Scientists Take the “Blue” Out of Blue Cheese

Blue cheese can be yellow, white, orange and green, all while maintaining the same texture and flavor, more or less.
Increasing the pore size of this chromium-containing MOF improved its ability to carry and deliver two common drugs: ibuprofen and 5-fluorouracil. Credit: Fateme Rezaei
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Acid-Treated Polymers Are Superior Stores for Drug Delivery

After the twists and turns of discovering a drug molecule, pharma companies still face a mighty challenge: delivering their candidate drugs to the area of the body where they are needed.
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Two New Mold Species Discovered in Southwestern China

Researchers have discovered two new freshwater hyphomycete (mould) species, Acrogenospora alangii and Conioscypha yunnanensis, in southwestern China.
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Diverse Tree Canopies Help Forests Recover From Small Fires and Storms

Diverse tree canopies can help forests recover from common, moderate-severity disturbances like small fires or pathogen outbreaks.
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