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This seems like it would lose an appreciable amount of water, but perhaps not nearly as much as transpiration. But in most places water is a cheaper input than nitrogen.
But how is this possible? Water has a vapor pressure of 23 millibars at 20 C, meaning water would boil from the leaves.
Is Sweden using an unsustainable amount of heaters to fight against deadly winter temperatures? Air conditioning is much more efficient than a heater. Arizona will usually only get more than 15 degrees warmer than a comfortable indoor temperature. In places with cold winters, sometimes temperatures will get more than 25 degrees cooler than a comfortable indoor temperature.
It turned out that ventilators kill coronavirus patients at a much higher rate than CPAP machines.
Re:How does the coronavirus kill? on Sunday April 19, 2020 @01:23PM (#22917261)
Short term, calorie deficit will deplete the immune system. But long term getting to a healthy weight and less diabetic will make you less susceptible to SARS2.
Re:Tracking Coronavirus by Smell Test on Friday April 03, 2020 @12:33PM (#22771001)
Olfactory neurons are somewhat notable for their ability to regenerate.
cf Marburgvirus
Every PI at a major research university who does something related to genetics should have one. There are probably some logistics challenges in getting them all into facilities with the right biosafety level and competent technicians to run them.
"Test kits" are just for sample collection. You still need throughput on a qPCR machine to get results.
It is pretty common to induce flowering of plants with gibberellin, for example cannabis.
It looks like we know about 36 different blood group systems, including the well-known ABO and Rh. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_blood_group_systems
Re:Long Live Microbiomes on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @07:44PM (#20753373)
Municipal wastewater treatment does not use expensive treatment or chemicals. It is a huge bioreactor where the only input is aeration and stirring.
Hydrophilic anything in the environment quickly fouls to hydrophobic.
Re:YInMn Blue on Friday June 21, 2019 @04:12PM (#20245922)
Why do people get to patent the products of federal grants?
We have been genetically modifying plants to maximize CO2 utilization for millenia.
Uyghurs are probably not a tissue match for Han.
Re:Mars Colony Prize on Thursday October 25, 2018 @09:43PM (#18306130)
How do you reject MWs of waste heat in a near vacuum?
A normal tank gun is 30,000 g and electronic fuzes work just fine for those.
Change headline to type O- they have not managed to make it Rh-negative.
This is not just the same perennial article about the fox domestication experiment, they did some new sequencing https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-018-0611-6.
What is the detection limit?
Re:Ugandan wins Africa prize for bloodless malaria test on Friday June 15, 2018 @07:18PM (#17324553)
This is a pulse oximeter.
Simply delete 27 genes from part of chromosome 7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_syndrome
China is not a developing country. This meme needs to die.
Bromoform kills methanogens.
Do you want housing shortage? Because that's how you get housing shortage
Dogs are actually trained to always "signal" the handler. You can't swear a dog in under oath- instant probable cause.
Re:An MSG Convert Visits the High Church of Umami on Saturday April 28, 2018 @01:54AM (#16946260)
Ajinomoto vs Morton's salt as the control, milled to the same consistency in gelcaps.

How did they find the subjects? Was it a general call for college students, or did they attempt to drill down to find rare sensitive individuals?

Re:An MSG Convert Visits the High Church of Umami on Friday April 27, 2018 @06:03PM (#16944817)
I've done a double blind experiment with myself, and msg reliably triggers migraines.

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