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Conservation scheme enables threatened plant to dock at island base
One of the world’s rarest dock and coastal plants has received a massive conservation boost, thanks to a wholesale reintroduction at its Welsh stronghold.
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Conservation scheme enables threatened plant to dock at island base
One of the world’s rarest dock and coastal plants has received a massive conservation boost, thanks to a wholesale reintroduction at its Welsh stronghold.
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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...
