With a machete, Gildardo Ramirez lops twelve pods off one of his cacao trees, letting them fall to its base. The long, brown pods look like twisted and deflated footballs. Each cacao pod usually encases about 40 beans — the source of cocoa powder and chocolate. The beans are the main commodity that Ramirez produces on his farm in San Francisco, Colombia, some 70 miles southeast of the city of Medellín. On Ramirez’s land, cacao’s red and green leaves fill the sloping hill ...read more
When researchers created a vaccine, they largely put an end to the 2013 bird flu pandemics in chickens, capping a worldwide health scare. But now, scientists have found new versions of the viruses in ducks. Researchers recommend vaccinating the nearly 3 billion ducks produced in China each year straightaway.
Virulent Virus
Back in 2013, authorities detected H7N9, a version of the flu that infects birds, in Chinese poultry markets. Soon after, they found the viruses in chicken farms. Th ...read more
They're among the most iconic of dinosaurs: the sauropods, long-necked, long-tailed herbivores that evolved into the largest land animals the planet has ever seen. They were essentially the cows of their day. Very, very big cows. But they didn't start out that way. A new dinosaur unearthed in South Africa reveals there are more plot twists to the sauropod story than we thought.
Ledumahadi mafube, the "giant thunderclap at dawn," weighed in at about 12 metric tons, or upwards of 26,000 pou ...read more
September 26 2018https://medium.com/media/b34ed438e13ccde0a577438b99f40cbe/hrefRyan Dennis, Head of Content at ICO Alert, joins us on this week’s Roundtable to talk all things happening in the crypto and blockchain space.We covered the following topics on this week’s episode:- Q gives away his most prized CryptoKitty — Ryan tell us about Waltonchain and their social media blunders — We cover the Ripple PUMP, and speculate on which coin mi ...read more
A version of this article originally appeared on The Conversation.
Hear the word “antenna” and you might think about rabbit ears on the top of an old TV or the wire that picks up radio signals for a car. But an antenna can be much smaller – even invisible. No matter its shape or size, an antenna is crucial for communication, transmitting and receiving radio signals between devices. As portable electronics become increasingly common, antennas must, too.
Wearable monitors, flex ...read more
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