When you think of China, do you think of potatoes? Maybe not, but in the Loess Plateau region of northwestern China, potato is the main food crop.
Soil Tilling, Mulching Key to China’s Potato Crop
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Now that’s ‘cool’ – Researchers create new efficiencies for light electric vehicles
Researchers at Simon Fraser University’s Surrey campus are aiming to improve the efficiency of light electric vehicles (LEV) by developing next-generation ‘passive’ cooling solutions for the vehicles’ battery chargers.
A Life Cycle Solution to Energy Impacts
Pitt Engineering researchers study potential benefits in co-treating Pennsylvania's acid mine drainage and shale gas wastewater.
Urban data critical
UVic geography professor Johan Feddema’s life-long academic interest in the interactions between human activity and the earth’s surface and climate didn’t start in a lab but in a graveyard.
Newly Discovered Wasp Turns Social Spiders into Zombies
It sounds like the plot of the world’s tiniest horror movie: deep in the Ecuadorian Amazon, a newly discovered species of wasp transforms a “social” spider into a zombie-like drone that abandons its colony to do the wasp’s bidding.
Solving a 75-Year-Old Mystery Might Provide a New Source of Farm Fertilizer
The solution to a 75-year-old materials mystery might one day allow farmers in developing nations to produce their own fertilizer on demand, using sunlight and nitrogen from the air.
