wollstonecraft

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Comment · 6 years ago
This seems like it would lose an appreciable amount of water, but perhaps not nearly as much as transpiration. But in most places water is a cheaper input than nitrogen.
Comment · 6 years ago
But how is this possible? Water has a vapor pressure of 23 millibars at 20 C, meaning water would boil from the leaves.
Comment · 6 years ago
Is Sweden using an unsustainable amount of heaters to fight against deadly winter temperatures? Air conditioning is much more efficient than a heater. Arizona will usually only get more than 15 degrees warmer than a comfortable indoor temperature. In places with cold winters, sometimes temperatures will get more than 25 degrees cooler than a comfortable indoor temperature.
Comment · 6 years ago
It turned out that ventilators kill coronavirus patients at a much higher rate than CPAP machines.
Comment · 6 years ago
Short term, calorie deficit will deplete the immune system. But long term getting to a healthy weight and less diabetic will make you less susceptible to SARS2.
Comment · 6 years ago
Olfactory neurons are somewhat notable for their ability to regenerate.
Comment · 6 years ago
cf Marburgvirus
Comment · 6 years ago
Every PI at a major research university who does something related to genetics should have one. There are probably some logistics challenges in getting them all into facilities with the right biosafety level and competent technicians to run them.
Comment · 6 years ago
"Test kits" are just for sample collection. You still need throughput on a qPCR machine to get results.
Comment · 6 years ago
It is pretty common to induce flowering of plants with gibberellin, for example cannabis.
Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
Municipal wastewater treatment does not use expensive treatment or chemicals. It is a huge bioreactor where the only input is aeration and stirring.
Comment · 7 years ago
Hydrophilic anything in the environment quickly fouls to hydrophobic.
Comment · 7 years ago
Why do people get to patent the products of federal grants?

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