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AP – As climate change impacts the production of prized saffron in Kashmir, scientists are shifting to a largely new technique for growing one of the world’s most expensive spices in the Himalayan region: indoor cultivation. Results in laboratory settings have been promising and the method has been shared with over a dozen traditional growers. […]
DUNDEE, UNITED KINGDOM (AFP) – Surrounded by rows of healthy saplings grown using the latest LED technology, Scottish forestry researcher Kenny Hay has been left in little doubt that the science can boost Britain’s net zero efforts. The trays of young trees stacked nine metres high inside the James Hutton Institute near Dundee in eastern […]
CNA – The prescription glasses and contact lenses that have helped you to see far are now failing you when you’re trying to decipher your Whatsapp messages. You can’t read anything without holding it at arm’s length. You’ve probably enlarged the font size of this article to read it properly. Fine print on labels? Don’t […]
HANOI (XINHUA) – Vietnam spent nearly USD10.3 billion importing roughly 9.8 million tonnes of steel and iron in the first 10 months of this year, up 6.7 per cent in value and down 8.5 per cent in volume against the same period last year, data from the General Statistics Office showed. In October alone, the […]
ISLAMABAD (AP) – A gunman opened fire at a campaign truck carrying Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan (AP pic, below) yesterday, wounding him slightly and also some of his supporters, a senior leader from his party and police said. Party official Asad Umar said Khan was wounded in the leg and was not seriously […]