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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.

But how is this possible? Water has a vapor pressure of 23 millibars at 20 C, meaning water would boil from the leaves.

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…

It turned out that ventilators kill coronavirus patients at a much higher rate than CPAP machines.

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.

Olfactory neurons are somewhat notable for their ability to regenerate.

cf Marburgvirus

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 wit…

"Test kits" are just for sample collection. You still need throughput on a qPCR machine to get results.

It is pretty common to induce flowering of plants with gibberellin, for example cannabis.

It looks like we know about 36 different blood group systems, including the well-known ABO and Rh. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_blood_group_systems

Municipal wastewater treatment does not use expensive treatment or chemicals. It is a huge bioreactor where the only input is aeration and stirring.

Hydrophilic anything in the environment quickly fouls to hydrophobic.

Why do people get to patent the products of federal grants?

We have been genetically modifying plants to maximize CO2 utilization for millenia.

Uyghurs are probably not a tissue match for Han.

How do you reject MWs of waste heat in a near vacuum?

A normal tank gun is 30,000 g and electronic fuzes work just fine for those.

Change headline to type O- they have not managed to make it Rh-negative.

This is not just the same perennial article about the fox domestication experiment, they did some new sequencing https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-018-0611-6 .

What is the detection limit?

This is a pulse oximeter.

Simply delete 27 genes from part of chromosome 7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_syndrome

China is not a developing country. This meme needs to die.