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Headlines of the week. June 2024

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Clean energy is a top priority for countries worldwide. While conventional power relies on fossil fuels like coal, natural gas, and oil, clean energy comes in various forms such as solar, wind, geothermal, hydroelectric, and biomass.

Although discovered in the United States only seven years ago, tar spot has wreaked havoc on corn yield—resulting in an estimated 1.2-billion-dollar loss in 2021 alone. The miscreant behind this devastating plant disease, Phyllachora maydis, is an emergent fungal pathogen whose biology remains obscure. This lack of understanding significantly limits disease management strategies, and no corn germplasm is completely resistant to the pathogen.

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Commercial agriculture, or otherwise known as agribusiness, is a cropping method in which crops are raised and livestock are raised in order to sell the products on the market in order to make money.

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2035 is approaching and after the definitive ok from the European Union relating to the ban on the sale of endothermic engines, the road is precisely that from 2035 and we must organize ourselves to follow it, thanks to the fact that the transition from endothermic to electric means for the manufacturers a complete and total revision of the design and construction schemes of the vehicles as well as a remodulation of the product lines.

There’s no trait that distinguishes humans from all other mammals more clearly than the way we walk. Human habitual bipedalism – obligatory walking on two legs – has long been a defining trait of our species, as well as our ancestors as far back as 4.5 million years ago.