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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture has awarded a $779,000 grant to Cornell AgriTech researchers to combat fire blight, one of the most devastating bacterial diseases for the apple and pear industries.
On a clear morning in October 2019, Benjamin Z. Houlton stood at the edge of a corn field in California’s Central Valley.
Biologist James Stroud’s phone started buzzing early on Jan. 22. A friend who was bicycling to work past the white sands and palm tree edges of Key Biscayne, an island town south of Miami, sent Stroud a picture of a 2-foot-long lizard splayed out on its back. With its feet in the air, the iguana took up most of the sidewalk.
Researchers of the new study investigated the role of protected areas for the range shifts of wintering waterbirds in Europe and North Africa.
New research shows a simple skin test can accurately identify Parkinson’s disease, demonstrating for the first time the feasibility of the method.
Current understanding is that the chemical composition of the Earth’s mantle is relatively homogeneous. But experiments conducted by ETH researchers now show that this view is too simplistic.
