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Ah, so here we are. at thejohn innes centre in norwich, theyre also shining a light on the past. i wanted to show you these old herbarium sheets. their samples go back 100 years and theyre looking to crossbreed these older plants with todays varieties. and what we want to do is look for new and useful genetic variation. so disease resistance, stress resistance, increased yield. theyve already started some field trials. its essential to find solutions. climate change and the extreme weather it br...

I wanted to show you these old herbarium sheets. their samples go back 100 years and theyre looking to crossbreed these older plants with todays varieties. and what we want to do is look for new and useful genetic variation. so disease resistance, stress resistance, increased yield. theyve already started some field trials. its essential to find solutions. climate change and the extreme weather it brings is reducing the amount we can grow globally. and pests and diseases are a big problem, too. ...

The introduction of various agricultural techniques, so they can tell us something about how wheat was growing wild, or before things like artificial fertilisers. the project will take months to complete. ah, so here we are. at thejohn innes centre in norwich, theyre also shining a light on the past. i wanted to show you these old herbarium sheets. their samples go back 100 years and theyre looking to cross—breed these older plants with todays varieties. and what we want to do is look for new ...

Students. >> the latest, we anticipate report, clean report coming, say 3:00 a.m. could it be before? possibly. >> reporter: it comes amid water wes related to aging infrastructure. from the jackson, mississippi, crisis in august, triggering a federal disaster declaration, to the years of issues in flint, michigan, where lead from pipes breached the water supply. here a wer main break every two minutes, according to the american society of civil engineers. an estimated six billion gallons of tre...

Ever sent to the red planet. and that question has always been there. is there life on mars now and was there ever life there in the pass and what can they tell us a bit of special earth is where we see life everywhere? what we discovered three separate studies that came out at the same time show that they have confirmed that this place where perseverance has been rolling around was awash in water on earth. everywhere there is water there is a life and they found hints of the building blocks of ...

The rover has been exploring mars for almost two years now. and eventually its samples will be returned back here on earth. nasa and the european space agency plan to of their vehicle tomorrow to launch the samples into orbit. and then a spacecraft would carry the back to earth. all of this focus on morriss tied to the relatively young field of astrologically. which focuses on the search for life in space, and potentially habitable worlds beyond earth. here to answer all of our burning questions...

But these old files at the natural history museum and they date back to the 1700s and come from every continent apart from antarctica. and the hope is that looking back into the past can help us to produce the crops of the future. this specimen, which was collected on captain cooks first voyage to australia... oh, wow, you can see the dates, cant you? every wheat specimen is painstakingly examined and photographed, and 1,500 of them will have their genomes sequenced. because the collection spans...

This specimen, which was collected on captain cooks first voyage to australia... oh, wow, you can see the dates, cant you? every wheat specimen is painstakingly examined and photographed, and 1,500 of them will have their genomes sequenced. because the collection spans also across time, across 300 years, we have specimens that are from before the introduction of various agricultural techniques, so they can tell us something about how wheat was growing wild, or before things like artificial ferti...

Take to the air ♪ >> anthony: youre still out there, so your songs are still being played, still being sampled, which is good, right? thats great. >> willie: if it werent for the samples, i dont know what i would do, that kept us alive was europe. >> anthony: the collectors must go crazy. maniac collectors in europe and japan. >> willie: if i had known back then how hot we were, i guess we would still be over there. biggest motown or bigger. >> anthony: this is an island, isnt it? it is kind o...

>> an unknown john doe. and that is a problem for me. >> holly cartwright is the district attorney. >> i said, well, were not gonna go forward with the indictment. not going forward with any arrest until i have the answer to that. >> investigators collected dna samples from all of the first responders to see if they could have accidentally left their dna at the scene. they considered another possibility. but the dna belonged to an accomplice. >> were also trying to get some samples from people w...