pesticides
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MIT Researchers Found A Way To Make Pesticides Stick To Plants
When farmers spray their crops with pesticides and other treatments to help ensure their survival, 98 per cent of those chemicals bounce right off the plants and end up in the groundwater as pollution. It’s a waste, and harmful to the environment, so researchers at MIT came up with a cheap but effective way to…
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Why Bed Bugs Are Getting Harder To Kill
Bed bugs are among the most dreaded pests we have to deal with, and they’re proving to be a formidable foe. New research suggests that bed bugs are able to ward off insecticides by developing thicker skins.
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Monster Machines: Weed-Killing Robot Dispatches Dandelions With 98% Accuracy
A prototype weed-seeking automaton could change the way seven billion humans eat, as well as help to end industrial agriculture’s reliance on toxic herbicides and itinerant labour.