Ford will receive drastically less public support for its new EV battery plant in Michigan. Ford’s incentives for the plant were cut by over half, matching the automaker’s recent plans to scale back.
Sources told Reuters that talks of a Unit 1 were “beyond preliminary,” but neither the governor’s office nor Constellation Energy has publicly confirmed that a restart is imminent.
Organizers in Washington State are working to put a measure on the state’s ballot that would legalize a number of plant- and fungi-based psychedelics for personal use, including psilocybin mushrooms, mescaline and DMT. While the proposal…
Labour had repeatedly pledged before its landslide General Election victory that it would act to protect hundreds of jobs at the Hitachi factory in Newton Aycliffe
A research team has developed LGNet, a dual-branch network that combines convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and visual transformers (VTs) for plant disease identification. LGNet effectively fuses local and global features, achieving…
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in collaboration with African governments and the private sector, has begun constructing tech hubs across the continent. This comes nearly six months after announcing its $1 billion…
An assessment ranks the feasibility of converting 245 operational coal power plants in the U.S. into advanced nuclear reactors, providing valuable insights for policymakers and utilities to meet decarbonization goals, according to a new…
A research team has developed an algorithm that analyses observational data from a plant identification app. The novel approach can be used to derive ecological patterns that could provide valuable information about the effects of climate…
Plants are known to respond to seasonal changes by budding, leafing, and flowering. As climate change stands to shift, these so-called phenological stages in the life cycle of plants—with access to data about phenological changes from many…
Gathered Foods, a leading pioneer in plant-based proteins and best known for creating disruptive Good Catch plant-based seafood brand, announced the sale of its dedicated plant-based production facility Trellis to the Ahimsa Companies, a…
Carotenoids, vital antioxidants in plants, are integral for human health, enhancing immunity and preventing diseases. However, many vegetables, including Chinese kale, naturally exhibit low carotenoid levels.
Plant dormancy's genetic mechanisms are vital for enhancing agricultural resilience and productivity. The interaction between lipid metabolism and hormone regulation significantly influences dormancy phases, essential for plant survival…