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DuPont’s announcement on Wednesday did not disclose how much it is paying for Taxon Biosciences Inc, but said the 15-year-old company brings a “broad intellectual property estate” that will contribute to new DuPont seed treatments, and foliar and soil applications for row crops, fruits and vegetables. DuPont’s move is the latest in a string of acquisitions and expansions by the world’s largest agrichemical companies to harness microbes, plant extracts and
By Sebastien Malo NEW YORK (Reuters) – An environmental activist planned on Wednesday to swim nearly two miles in a New York City canal described by the top U.S. environmental agency as among the nation’s “most extensively contaminated” bodies of water. Christopher Swain, a clean-water activist, said his swim in the Gowanus Canal aims to mark Earth Day and is an effort to press for speedier cleaning of the notoriously
By Kathryn Doyle (Reuters Health) – Half of women with cancer in one breast – but no gene mutations that increase their risk – are interested in removing their healthy breast to avoid a second cancer there, a small survey finds. Women with less cancer knowledge and greater worry about developing a new tumor were most likely to want the preventive removal of the healthy breast. But after talking to
Today one of the top money managers in the world spoke with King World News about Greece’s pivot toward Russia and China and what this means for the gold market.
Amy Schumer bowing down to Kim Kardashian and Kanye West wasn’t the only noteworthy moment that occurred at the Time 100 gala! The 37-year-old rapper also…
File this story under awkward! In a new interview with Howard Stern, Rumer Willis is opening up about her teenage crush on Ashton Kutcher before Kutcher started dating her mom Demi Moore…
If only we could fast forward to the future! Britney Spears made a major announcement Wednesday! “Vegas isn’t just the home of my Piece of Me show, it’s also the home of the…
Beth O’Rourke wanted to tell her story in her own way, in her own words, and she did so beautifully. The Paxton nurse lost a lengthy battle with cancer last week, but not before…
We all know the drill. Settle down to watch the latest episode of House of Cards on Netflix in the local coffee shop, and it ends up taking twice as long due to endless buffering. Thankfully there’s a solution round the corner Oregon State University researchers have invented new LED lightning technology that delivers up to 10 times more Wi-Fi bandwidth, whether it is implemented at crowded stadiums, huge conference
Tom Hanks’ film in the headline? Big It’s that time of the week again. You know, the time of the week when a column that was meant to be published on Friday was accidentally missed and arrived on the following Wednesday. We can’t tell you what happened for legal reasons. Let’s just say that a certain unicorn was [Snip! Ed] and then the owl said [Snip!] and then they both
