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Not in our backyard
A year ago, biofuel was a buzzword, a reasonable technical solution to many of our environmental problems. Politicians across the European Union and in North America were busy setting targets, deciding what percentage of transport fuels should be replaced by biofuels by what time. The corn-ethanol industry in the US went into overdrive, and many governments in the developing world set up fuel c...
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As the pipeline of new antibiotics slows to a trickle, scientists are developing innovative strategies to unearth antibacterial compounds in unexpected places.
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On the largest scales, matter is strung out on an intricate pattern known as the cosmic web. The tendrils of this web should reach right into our own cosmic backyard, lacing the Galactic halo with lumps of dark matter. The search for these lumps, lit up by stars that formed within them, is a major astronomical endeavor, although it has failed to find the huge expected population. Is this a dark...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Iowa Review
سال: 1991
ISSN: 0021-065X,2330-0361
DOI: 10.17077/0021-065x.4035