Monday, 12 October 2020

In the eye of a stellar cyclone: Bizarre secrets of a ticking time-bomb star

While on COVID lockdown, a University of Sydney honours student has written a research paper on a star system dubbed one of the "exotic peacocks of the stellar world".

For when the chips are down—preserving UK soil microbial biodiversity for agriculture

Scientists from the UK's foremost agricultural research institutes have teamed up to create a new UK Crop Microbiome Cyrobank (UK-CMCB) to safeguard future research and facilitate the sustainable yield improvement of the UK's six major food crops including barley, oats, oil seed rape, potato, sugar beet and wheat.