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Volunteers’ lichen finds give conservation boost to rare rainforest
Citizen science volunteers have identified two rare lichens never before recorded in the north of England.
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Volunteers’ lichen finds give conservation boost to rare rainforest
Citizen science volunteers have identified two rare lichens never before recorded in the north of England.
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Electron diffraction: A technique suggesting radically new things
Crystallography mainly relies on diffraction techniques and the most recent of them, electron diffraction, is gaining increasing attention. Dr Eric Hovestreydt discusses why nanocrystallography using…
Comment And Analysis
Critical alternatives
As the supply of rare earth elements becomes an increasing geopolitical issue, Akseli Mansikkamäki and his colleagues at the University of Oulu are developing molecules to address the challenge.
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-…
Focal Point
Water droplet
This amazing image – Crack Patterns I, by Thomas Séon – shows a water droplet falling onto a silicon substrate at -36°C...
