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Leading marine survey finds home at enlarged Plankton Lab
Charities supporter the Garfield Weston Foundation and the Marine Biological Association (MBA) have joined forces to enable the new Plankton Taxonomy Laboratory in Plymouth to host one of the world’s…
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Leading marine survey finds home at enlarged Plankton Lab
Charities supporter the Garfield Weston Foundation and the Marine Biological Association (MBA) have joined forces to enable the new Plankton Taxonomy Laboratory in Plymouth to host one of the world’s…
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Innovations in geodetics for environmental research
From coastal landslide modelling to mapping geological hazards, monitoring active lava domes and biodiversity management, Lee Jones explains how drone-based and terrestrial LiDAR scanning has transfo…
Comment And Analysis
Combatting microplastics with microscopy
Microscopy techniques are used to identify and characterise microplastics, but each has limitations, especially with small particles. Emerging methods such as holographic imaging and fluorescent dyes…
Interviews
In agro: field labs and farmer-led research
The Innovative Farmers not for profit network brings together farmers and growers with researchers to enable field trials (pun intended). A decade’s worth of on-farm trial results demonstrate farmer-…
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Water droplet
This amazing image – Crack Patterns I, by Thomas Séon – shows a water droplet falling onto a silicon substrate at -36°C...