Новости за 24.06.2020

Again today, just seemed to be two Brassy Longhorns, Nemophora metallica, dining on the Field Scabious on the Cottenham Lode today. There are dining partners in several of the shots Thankfully the people who have mowed the upper part of the bank (for some unknown reason) didn’t trim the scabious…

US government and European firms invest in CO₂ capture projects

Sciencebase readers who also partake of my Imaging Storm website will know already that the moth season has taken off. Night-flying leps are coming to the ultraviolet lure at a rate of knots now; 120 specimens of 60 different species last night (night of 23rd June 2020, logged on the morning of the 24th, many … Continue reading "Lepidopteral update"

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Nonprofits that fund research are delaying, trimming, or canceling grants to scientists

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Prominent mass spectrometry researcher at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology passed away

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Domestication of world's most common farm animal had been debated since Charles Darwin

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Some moth names are just so obvious. This member of the Lepidoptera is mostly green and has silvery lines on its wings, hence Green Silver-lines. It’s scientific binomial is a little more cryptic, Pseudoips prasinana.

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Russian researchers have found a way to eliminate the odour of some of the worst-smelling – but very useful – compounds in chemistry

Oxidative condensation of 2-aminophenols with a wide range of aldehydes