A project led by John Peters, chair of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oklahoma, has received a nearly $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Basic Energy Sciences.
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British Antarctic Survey Unveils Pilotless Plane for Testing in Antarctica
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Soy Expansion in Brazil Linked to Increase in Childhood Leukemia Deaths
Over the past decades, Brazil has become the world’s leading soybean producer, as well as the leading consumer of pesticides.
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Climate-Smart Cows Could Deliver 10-20x More Milk in Global South
A team of animal scientists from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is set to deliver a potential game changer for subsistence farmers in Tanzania: cows that produce up to 20 times the milk of indigenous breeds.