Stories
- Article
Beyond a green carpet
Plant ecologist Sara Middleton explores the amazing symbiotic relationships between the species that make up grasslands, and considers their future as rain becomes more scarce.
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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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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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What is air, and how do we know?
Watching bubbles in fermenting beer led 18th-century scientist Joseph Priestley to invent sparkling water – and to discover that different gases make up the air we breathe.
Catalogue
- Books
Nutrients for plants : background briefing.
Date: [1992?]- Books
Recommended intakes of nutrients for the United Kingdom : report / of the Panel on Recommended Allowances of Nutrients.
Panel on Recommended Allowances of Nutrients.Date: 1969- Books
The British diet : finding the facts the twenty-third report of the Steering Group on Food Surveillance, the Working Party on Nutrients.
Great Britain. Working Party on Nutrients.Date: 1988- Books
Dietary reference intakes for energy, carbohydrate, fiber, fat, fatty acids, cholesterol, protein, and amino acids / Panel on Macronutrients, Panel on the Definition of Dietary Fiber, Subcommittee on Upper Reference Levels of Nutrients, Subcommittee on Interpretation and Uses of Dietary Reference Intakes, and the Standing Committee on the Scientific Evaluation of Dietary Reference Intakes, Food and Nutrition Board ; Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.
Date: [2005], ©2005
- Digital Images
- Online
Bioengineered hair absorbs nutrients, conceptual artwork
Nestor Pestana