Stories
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Soil health and dairy farming in the UK
Although healthy soil means more nutritious dairy products, modern intensive farming methods pollute and degrade the environment. However, a regenerative agriculture movement is kicking back against mainstream industrial farming.
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The tale of the toxic kidneys
In 1954 a serendipitous coming together of skills and circumstances allowed the first successful organ transplant to take place. Read how Richard Herrick’s life was prolonged by his identical twin’s generosity.
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Womb milk and the puzzle of the placenta
A human baby needs milk to survive – and this holds true even before it’s born. Joanna Wolfarth explores “womb milk”, as well as ancient and modern ideas about the placenta.
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Illness and the influence of the stars
Could alien germs from space have caused major pandemics across the world? Taras Young investigates the ideas of a few unconventional scientists who believe this to be the case.
Catalogue
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Conversion of organic solid wastes into yeast : an economic evaluation / by Floyd H. Meller.
Meller, Floyd H.Date: 1969- Books
Composting; sanitary disposal and reclamation of organic wastes / [Harold Benedict Gotaas].
Gotaas, Harold Benedict, 1906-1977.Date: 1956- Books
Report on an experiment converting municipal wastes into organic manure / by J.C. Carter, Kamal El-Din Fahmy.
Carter, J. C.Date: 1937
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An investigation on the fate of organic and inorganic wastes discharged into the marine environment : and their effects on biological productivity.
California. State Water Quality Control Board.Date: 1965- Books
Health guidelines for the use of wastewater in agriculture and aquaculture : report of a WHO scientific group.
Date: 1989