Faced with the breathtaking diversity of living things, compromises are made and research effort concentrated in a few selected species – so-called ‘model organisms’ – in the hope that biological discoveries made in...
Archive - December 18, 2012
Nigel Chaffey
When a lemon and a couple of electrodes aren’t enough
From Rice University comes news taking the lemon, copper and zinc thing into the 21st century. A team led by Arava Leela Mohana Reddy has found a way to make more environmentally friendly power. The trick is to is use...
Alun Salt