Visitors attempt plant-based meat substitutes at restaurants and bars and gourmet Asia Expo on November 11, 2020 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center in Hong Kong. Peter Parks | AFP | Getty Images SINGAPORE – Demand for meat alternatives has increased and will continue to grow, but there …
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You don’t know what you’ve got until you leave. Valviluculus pleristaminis Makes a perfect example. Scientists have recently identified this mysterious, extinct flower. It once bloomed in the Cretaceous period – the remains of a Purana-era flower, preserved in time-suspended amber from some unnamed days while dinosaurs were still roaming …
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You would think that a plant scientist would go home to a farm, but Neil Stewart used to work with potatoes, not human cadres. Influenced by environmental pollutants, Stuart was on a tour at the University of Tennessee’s ‘Body Farm’ – formally known as the Anthropology Research Facility – where …
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IOWA CITY, Iowa – A rare storm that grabbed 100 mph winds and struck like a domestic hurricane Monday across the Midwest, blowing over trees, overturning cars, causing widespread damage to property and leaving hundreds of thousands without power when it went through Chicago and into Indiana and Michigan. The …
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Today, flowering plants (or angiosperms) represent about four-fifths of all green plants on Earth, but for billions of years they did not exist at all. Biologists have now been able to fully record the rapid increase in angiosperms in the past 140 million years. A recently released ‘time tree’ of …
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