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Why Are Trees Tree-shaped?
While running through a leafy park days ago, I passed dozens of tree species of different sizes and ages, and I was suddenly struck by how Maximising the sunlight hitting the tree’s leaves is obviously critical for the tree’s Imagine an oak tree, with branches reaching But there is another way of solving that problem. Some trees grow their reinforcing reaction wood on the | oak pine fir |
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Clean Air Act
The air in modern homes and offices is pretty clean,but not as clean as it might be.Often it contains small amounts of volatile(挥发性的),poisonous,organic compounds.Long-term
Finding an effective way to do so has proved difficult.But Stuart Strand, Long Zhang and Ryan Routsong, of the University of Washington,in Seattle,think they have succeeded,As they report in Environmental Science and Technology, their method involves
The idea of
Dr Strand, Dr Zhang and Mr Routsong thus sought something suitably transgenic ( 转 基 因 的),but that does not flower indoors. The plant they settled on was Devil's vine,