#New 3d printed materials lighter than water and as strong as steel A Nanoscribe 3d printer can print models of the Empire state building in a space the width of a human hair using precision lasers.
Watching the machine build through thelens of an electron microscope is otherworldlybut the printer s potential runs beyond microscale model making.
Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of technology, led by Jens Bauer, believe such 3d printers may help craft a new generation of materials lighter than water and strong as steel.
Today, the sturdiest materials tend to be the densest (like metals and the least dense materials tend to be the weakest (like foams.
Ideally, materials are both lightweight and strong. A rocket s skin, for example, needs to contain a column of super-pressurized fuel
and at the same time weigh as little as possible. As it turns out, some of the strongest, least dense materials aren t manmade at allthey re naturally occurring.
Wood and bone, for instance, are both strong and light. The reason? On molecular scales, they re riddled with holes.
Like arches in the Roman Coliseum, the shape of all those tiny spaces maximizes strength
and minimizes material. The resulting structures are, of course, immensely useful. Bird bones, for example, are strong enough to support muscles and ligaments and, at the same time,
lightweight enough to permit flight. Hexagonal micro-truss structure about 30 millionths of a meter wide.
The printer s mirror-focused laser shines on and hardens a droplet of liquid plastic on a slide.
A computer moves the plate under the laser, selectively hardening it, layer by layer, to match a digital 3d model.
Once complete, the excess liquid is washed away, leaving a pristine structurewith features a few millionths of a meter across.
and to further strengthen the polymer, they coated it with a thin film of alumina (aluminum oxide).
The best configuration, a honeycomb lattice with a 50 nanometer coat of alumina, is less dense than waterthat is,
it would floatand as strong as some steel alloys. See video of their experimentation at the bottom.
In 2012, researchers at the Vienna University of Technology 3d printed a race car and cathedral smaller than a dust mite.
it s a fascinating peek into a future where information technologies may direct the fabrication of amazing newmicroarchitectural materials.
it may not be the only new computer-enabled approach to materials research. In a recent article, Scientific American predicted supercomputerswill yield a Golden age of materials science.
The article went on to note that the powerful modeling capabilities of supercomputers and the principles of quantum mechanics are together allowing scientists to build virtual materials atom by atom.
Whereas, in the past, researchers had to go through a laborious, sometimes decades-long process of trial and error, suchhigh-throughput materials design would sort through hundreds or thousands of theoretical materials, cherry picking the ones with the most promising properties before ever conducting an experiment.
from the filament in a light bulb to the silicon in a computer chip. Whether we 3d print them
#High-tech glasses help surgeons see cancer The glasses are designed to make it easy for surgeons to differentiate cancerous cells from healthy cells.
Researchers at the Washington University School of medicine have developed high-tech eyewear that helps surgeons detect cancer cells, which glow blue
The special glasses are designed to make it easy for surgeons to differentiate cancerous cells from healthy cells allowing surgeons to make sure no cancer cells are left during surgery.
Phd, a professor of radiology and biomedical engineering at the university. The technology involve a head-mounted display, custom video technology,
and a targeted molecular agent that makes cancer cells glow when viewed through the glasses. The usual procedure for surgery requires doctors to remove tumors and neighboring tissue
which may or may not have cancer cells. The tissue is sent to a lab for tests and if cancer cells are detected,
a second surgery is recommended usually to remove additional tissue that is also tested for the presence of cancer.
The special eyewear can potentially eliminate the need for follow-up surgical procedures and save patients from more stress and anxiety
as well as expenses. The special eyewear has yet to be named but it has already been used during surgery at the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of medicine.
Julie Margenthaler, MD, an associate professor of surgery at Washington University and one of the breast surgeons who has performed surgery with the special eyewear,
said, Wee in the early stages of this technology, and more development and testing will be done,
if these glasses eliminated the need for follow-up surgery and the associated pain, inconvenience and anxiety.
Dr. Achilefu, who also happens to be co-leader of the Oncologic Imaging Program at Siteman Cancer Center,
is seeking approval from the FDA for a different molecular agent that he is helping to develop for use with the special eyewear.
#Aristotl learning system aims to rejuvenate STEM learning with platform heavy on visualization FORT COLLINS A Fort Collins man is aiming to revitalize the American education system with a new STEM-focused visual
learning platform he calls Aristotl after the Greek philosopher and teacher. Alan Witty a teacher serial entrepreneur and businessman believes U s. students are falling behind their global counterparts in STEM (science technology engineering
and math) skills and he attributes part of that situation to an education system that fails to make those subjects compelling and more easily understandable.
Witty a New york native whose past includes online teacher martial arts instructor and owner of a popular downtown Fort Collins bar says a teaching position at Colorado Technical University he accepted in 2005 opened his eyes to how technology could be used to create a more engaging and visual learning experience. began thinking there must be a better
way to engage students and that how the company startedhe said. Witty president and CEO of KSHARE Inc. said his Aristotl Learning Platform is sophisticated a yet simple-to-use virtual classroom
and content creation tool that enables interactive online learning across a dynamic multidimensional landscape. With his software Witty says users can set up
and run a real-time experiment in a virtual online classroom that can explain and demonstrate STEM concepts in vivid 3d detail.
According to Witty Aristotl is a course creation and content management system that enables the development of fully interactive 3d STEM courses
which can be delivered in a classroom online or through a combined approach. Witty said he set out to create a learning platform that is both student
and teacher-friendly. y thought was how can I create a tool for the teacher that is as flexible as possible
so they can bring their own flair to ithe said. Witty said he believes visual learning is important to address the needs of students who are digital natives
and Aristotl leans heavily on the visual aspect. et give everybody a platform with everything people expect
but let pull in widgets like 3d animation and so onhe said. his tool is focused on that group of people who need to learn visually
and also lets teachers add their own personal touch. itty said the platform encourages instructors to bring their own unique approach to teaching STEM with Aristotl content creation tool. f we look at learning models collaborative models work
besthe says. oday you have to appeal to a student in the language they understand and the world they live in is an extremely visual one. ill Van Eron owner of Headwaters
Marketing and an Aristotl advisor said Witty is taking an innovative approach to meeting today education needs. e moving the mountain over to students so the way teachers interact with students is in their worldvan Eron said.
But Witty said he not just looking to market Aristotl to the U s. education system. e want to be able to connect with people across the globehe says. not going to tell people how to teach.
I just want to give them a great platform. itty says a recent study indicates 40 percent of jobs now require technical skills
and with more and more foreign university students now returning to their home countries to begin their careers instead of staying in the U s. the outlook for continued U s. technical dominance is worrisome. don think the U s. can keep (leading the world)
unless we create a better education systemhe said. Witty launched an Indiegogo fundraising campaign on Jan 15 that aims to raise $150000 to fund the first release of Aristotl.
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width=#222px#height=#445px#frameborder=#0? scrolling=#no#><iframe>Van Eron said he became an advisor to Witty because of the potential he sees in Aristotl capability to improve education
and by extension help ensure the U s. remains at the top of global innovation. don think education can fix itselfhe said. t needs folks like Alan to create something that is far stronger than
what it is today. itty agrees and hopes the education system will embrace some help from Aristotl. t my fundamental belief that
if we open our arms we can find the next Einstein or Salkhe said e
#IHS Automotive report: Investments in autonomous vehicles accelerating SOUTHFIELD, Mich. Google and various automakers have increased their activity and investment toward the goal of self-driving vehicles,
with Google now focusing on fully driverless vehicles for the future, according to a report by IHS Automotive.
The report, Autonomous Driving: Question is When, Not If, is an update of a previous report issued in early 2014.
The report said OEMS remain geared toward augmenting the driver and adding incremental autonomous functions as autonomous driving technology improves.
The findings support IHS Automotive global forecast of nearly 12 million self-driving cars in 2035, with nearly all autos likely to be self-driving on some level by 2050.
Last year, Google adjusted its approach to focus on fully autonomous vehicles that have the ability to operate without a driver at all,
the report said. oogle path goes through low-speed testing of self-driving cars in restricted areas beginning in 2015 and lasting three to five years,
the report co-author. he next stage is small-scale deployment of low-speed L5 self-driving vehicles in campus-like environments
and self-driving vehicles will have tremendous long-term impact on the auto industry, Juliussen said. t will also likely have a positive influence on auto sales and vehicles in operation after 2035,
presumably adding another 50 years of growth to the sector. Without these advancements, it is possible that the auto industry could stagnate in 10 to 15 years. 1
#New Algorithm for Real-time Simulations in Materials Research Researchers at LBNL have have developed a new algorithm that opens the door for real-time simulations in atomic-level materials research.
When electronic states in materials are excited during dynamic processes, interesting phenomena such as electrical charge transfer can take place on quadrillionth-of-a-second,
For example, it can take a supercomputer several weeks to simulate a 10-femtosecond process. One reason for the high cost is that real-time simulations of ultrafast phenomena require small time steps to describe the movement of an electron
To combat the high cost associated with the small time steps, Lin-Wang Wang, senior staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab),
and visiting scholar Zhi Wang from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have developed a new real-time time-dependent density function theory (rt-TDDFT) algorithm that increases the small time
The traditional algorithms work by directly manipulating these equations. Wang new approach, which involves adding a new algorithm on top of his PETOT (parallel total energy) code,
originally developed by Wang when he worked at the National Renewable energy Laboratory and later parallelized by Wang
PETOT is a plane-wave pseudopotential density functional ground-state calculation package designed for large system simulations to be run on large parallel computers
and Linux cluster machines.""With this new algorithm, the rt-TDDFT simulation can have speed comparable to the Born-Oppenheim ab initio molecular dynamics simulations,
the researchers wrote in the Physical Review Letters paper.""To achieve this, the algorithm expands the equations in PETOT into individual terms, based on
which states are excited at a given time. The challenge, which Wang has solved, is to figure out the time evolution of the individual terms.
describing the key to the algorithm success: Solving the equations in bigger time steps reduces the computational cost and increases the speed of the simulations."
"Comparing the new algorithm with the old, slower algorithm yields similar results, e g.,, the predicted energies and velocities of an atom passing through a layer of material are the same for both models,
he noted. Being able to run the code on a supercomputer like Hopper for long periods of time was central to the success of this study, according to Wang.
The new supercomputers are critical, and so are the fast processors, he said. his code does not necessarily scale to many processors.
Typically we use a few hundred processors. But the long time run is critical. Source: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory t
#Pointwise Adds Overset Grid Assembly to CFD Meshing Software Today Pointwise announced the latest release of its computational fluid dynamics (CFD) meshing software featuring direct integration with overset grid
assembly (OGA) software. The integration of grid generation and overset grid assembly represents a vast improvement over the hodge-podge of disparate tools typically employed by practitioners of overset CFD,
said Nick Wyman, Pointwise director of applied research. hat we are releasing today for production use is the result of a multi-year research effort Pointwise conducted with funding from the U s. Air force Arnold Engineering Development Complex,
Air force Materiel Command. That research was followed by a full year of fine-tuning in preparation for release to all our customers.
Overset gridding is a technique that avoids the topological complexity of generating abutting, point-to-point connected,
multi-block grids by allowing the component grid blocks to overlap. The price paid for that flexibility is need the to ensure a sufficient degree of overlap so the CFD solver can accurately share data between the component grids.
The overlap is computed using overset grid assembly software. Users of OGA software typically rely on a circuitous collection of homegrown tools that are patched together.
By integrating OGA (in the form of the PEGASUS and Suggar++software packages) with Pointwise the entire process is made more efficient.
Pointwise has been a proud, long-time sponsor of and participant in the biannual Overset Grid Symposium, said John Chawner,
Pointwise president. his release of Pointwise helps us continue our integral relationship with that community. Other features in Pointwise Version 17.3 R1 include improved support for PLOT3D, ANSYS Fluent, STL,
and NX files, a more robust T-Rex, anisotropic tetrahedral extrusion, hybrid mesher, and several user experience enhancements e
#HP Sports AMD Firepro GPUS in Proliant DL380 Gen9 Servers Today AMD announced that the AMD Firepro S9150 server GPU for HPC is now available on the HP Proliant DL380
Gen9 the world's best-selling server. AMD Firepro server GPUS combine with HP Proliant DL380 Gen9 servers for a variety of specialized applications including Academic
and Government clusters Oil and Gas research and Deep Neural networks. The AMD Firepro S9150 server GPU is supported by a powerful software ecosystem enabling developers to better harness its compute performance including support for Opencl 2. 0. Featuring the first AMD Graphics
Core Next (GCN) architecture specifically with compute workloads in mind the AMD Firepro S9150 server GPU supports enhanced double precision floating point computation and breaks the 2. 0
TFLOPS double precision barrier. With 16gb of GDDR5 memory and maximum power consumption of 235 watts AMD Firepro S9150 server GPUS provide massive compute performance
while helping maximize available power budgets. With AMD STREAM technology customers will be able to leverage the massive parallel processing power of the AMD Firepro S9150 server GPU
and accelerate applications beyond just graphics. The server GPU features: The AMD Firepro S9150 server GPU also provides support to handle workloads in a variety of sectors by enabling Openmp an API for high-level parallelism in the C C++ and Fortran languages.
In segments such as Oil and Gas Computer Aided Engineering and Computational Science many organizations have made substantial investments in Openmp to create scalable workloads.
AMD's collaboration with Pathscale to provide support for Openmp 4. 0 will allow customers in these HPC fields to harness the compute power of AMD Firepro S9150 server GPU.
Additionally AMD Firepro-S4000x server GPUS can be found the HP Proliant WS460C Graphics Server Blade5.
With high-quality 3d graphics and multidisplay functionality the AMD Firepro S4000x server GPU module delivers workstation-class graphics performance on remote desktops.
Designed with blade server and blade workstation platforms in mind each module consumes 45w maximum power includes 2gb of GDDR5 memory up to 72 GB/s of memory bandwidth
and the ability to support up to six high resolution remote displays s
#Mellanox Shows Record Performance with Connectx-4 100gb/s Interconnect Adapters Today Mellanox announced world-record performance on its Connectx-4 EDR 100gb/s Infiniband adapters.
Achieving Infiniband throughput of 100gb/s, bidirectional throughput of 195gb/s, applications latency level of 610 nanoseconds and message rate of 149.5 million messages per second,
Connectx-4 is the highest performing adapter for the HPC, Web 2. 0, cloud, machine learning, storage and enterprise applications.
Interconnect performance capabilities are critical to data -and compute-intensive applications which require ultra-low latency
and a high rate of message communication in order to deliver faster results, said Gilad Shainer, vice president of marketing at Mellanox Technologies. t 100gb/s, for example,
you can transmit a whole Blu-ray disc of data in two seconds. Connectx-4 opens new capabilities for high-performance, data analytics, machine learning and storage applications.
With the new records of interconnect performance, Connectx-4 adapters provide the means to increase data center return on investment while reducing IT costs.
Connectx-4 has already been selected to power CORAL (Collaboration of Oak ridge, Argonne and Lawrence Livermore National Labs) to help ease the Department of energy new mission-critical applications.
Connectx-4 adapters are sampling today with select customers. With Connectx-4 Mellanox offers a complete end-to-end EDR 100gb/s Infiniband solution,
including the EDR 100gb/s Switch-IB Infiniband switch and Linkx 100gb/s copper and fiber cables
#Seagate & Supermicro Optimize SQL Databases As part of our strategy and commitment to engage with ecosystem vendors to jointly bring optimized
and turn-key solutions to market, wee excited to be working closely with industry leaders Microsoft
and Supermicro to provide enhanced performance and efficiency to our customers, said Manish Muthal, vice president strategy,
planning and architecture for Seagate electronic solutions. his reference design strives for the best balance of all componentspu, memory,
storageo achieve the optimal performance for a wide range of identified workloads. Balance leads to greater efficiency by fitting the specific needs of a task to a known performance level so remaining resources can be reallocated to other needs.
Microsoft SQL SERVER 2014 Fast Track is a program to develop reference architectures to give medium to large data warehouses a step-by-step guide to building out a data warehouse using well-tuned hardware.
The goal of reference architectures is to achieve high performance at a cost-effective price for rapid deployment.
The Fast Track reference design is meant to scale and grow while maintaining a common experience across the data warehouse.
Our efforts are targeted at supporting organizations that seek to optimally deploy SQL SERVER 2014 flawlessly in their data center,
said Tiffany Wissner, senior director product marketing, data platform, Microsoft. ee proud to work with companies such as Seagate
and Supermicro who continue to innovate and deliver highly reliable and high performance Microsoft Fast Track Data warehouse designs.
With this solution companies will be able to more efficiently support real time reporting and streaming data,
which are now the norm for business expectations and productivity. Predicting the performance capabilities of a collection of components can be difficult
and a reference architecture helps to eliminate any uncertainty in determining the right mix of components to best suit the specific needs of a data warehouse.
This reference design utilizes the Seagate Nytro Flash Accelerator Card, Supermicro Superserver SYS-4048b-TRFT system and Microsoft SQL SERVER 2014 Enterprise Edition to deliver a fully-optimized,
consistently high performing solution for quick and trusted deployment. Supermicro high-performance 4u 4-way SYS-4048b-TRFT Superserver
optimized for IO-intensive environments, enables rapid, efficient deployment of Microsoft SQL SERVER 2014 Fast Track Data warehouse, said Don Clegg,
vice president of marketing and business development at Supermicro. ur Microsoft certified solution comes preconfigured with quad Intel Xeon E7 processors, Seagate Nytro Flash Accelerator cards, memory,
storage and SQL SERVER 2014 installed and validated. With this turnkey solution, organizations can focus efforts on more strategic decision making activities around data analytics
and business intelligence to accelerate growth. For more information please visit http://www. seagate. com and Seagate and Microsoft Fast Track.
Information on Microsoft SQL SERVER Fast Track Data warehouse reference architecture can be found at Microsoft Solutions o
#Concept lamp on bioluminescent bacteria Bright (literally) marine life bioluminescent bacteria look very beautiful and unusual in their natural habitat,
causing the glow tentacles octopus of some species in which they live. The soft blue glow is emitted
when exposed to oxygen. This unique property decided to use. was prepared lamp Ambio, the basis
of which consisted of the very luminous microorganisms. With the selection of suitable bacteria for the device helped biology-students from Delft University of Technology.
As planned by the lamplight Ambio consists of a transparent tube filled with artificial sea water
in which is added bioluminescent organisms. In order to the lamp beginning to radiate light, it is necessary in motion this is specially equipped with a mechanism like a pendulum.
Future technology Concept lamp on bioluminescent bacteria While lamp Ambio is not a finished product it is still being finalized
and improve. The life interesting device currently limited to only a few days (bacteria rather die quickly.
However, biologists, cooperating with designer, will help increase the lamp operating time to an acceptable level in the near future.
Designer from Holland Teresa Van Donge a
#Medifocus Granted Patent for the Treatment and Prevention of Breast cancer Medifocus, Inc. TSXV: MFS, OTCQX:
MDFZF) was granted a new patent, EP1581145, by the newly allowed European Patent office (EPO) patent. The title of the patent, hermotherapy Apparatus for the Treatment and Preventions of Cancer in Male and Female Patients and Cosmetic Ablation of Tissueand is focused a heat apparatus for the treatment and prevention of cancer tissues, specifically breast cancers.
As quoted in the press release: The new patent, EP1581145, was granted by the EPO to John Mon,
COO, and Dr. Alan Fenn, co-inventor of the APA focusing technology, and is assigned to Medifocus.
and Preventions of Cancer in Male and Female Patients and Cosmetic Ablation of Tissueand is focused a heat apparatus for,
but also the prevention of cancer tissues and, more specifically, breast cancers. Another embodiment of this patent is for the use of the apparatus for the minimal and noninvasive cosmetic applications specifically to destroy
pparatus and Method for Preconditioning/Fixation and Treatment of Disease with Heat Activation/Release with Thermoactivated Drugs and Gene Productsauthored by John Mon, COO for Medifocus.
and Method for Preconditioning/Fixation and Treatment of Disease with Heat Activation/Release with Thermoactivated Drugs and Gene Products.
allows Medifocus to partner up with other biotech companies in helping to develop and commercialize targeted thermoactivated/released drugs and gene products which,
in our opinion, is the future of medicine. f
#Dealing with Drought: Reaping the Benefits of Cover crops (Op-Ed) Margaret Mellon is a senior scientist for food and the environment at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS.
An expert on sustainable agriculture and the potential environmental risks of biotechnology Mellon holds a doctorate in molecular biology and a law degree.
This article was adapted from a post on the UCS blog The Equation. Mellon contributed this article to Livescience's Expert Voices:
Op-Ed & Insights. Farmers planting crops that can't be sold doesn't sound like a sensible proposition does it?
After all seeds cost money and so does the equipment to get them in the ground. Why grow'em
if you can't sell'em? But it turns out that an increasing number of farmers are doing just that:
buying planting and tending to so-called cover crops. No farmers can't sell cover crops but they do reap benefits from them including increased yields of cash crops like corn and soybeans.
Use of cover crops can also help farms survive the droughts expected to become more common in the era of climate change.
Cover crops which can be many species of grains grasses and legumes are planted usually in the interval between the harvesting and planting of cash crops.
Sending their roots down into bare soil cover crops can increase soil carbon provide slow-release nitrogen
and prevent erosion. But a cover-crop/cash crop system is complex. If not managed properly cover crops can deprive cash crops of water
or even reduce yields. Although they make sense in theory many have wondered how cover crops would work in the real world.
Now a new survey of commercial farmers has confirmed that cover crops increase yields in corn and soybeans the most common crops in the U s. Moreover cover crops were especially effective under drought conditions.
The North Central Sustainable agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program and the Conservation Technology Information center conducted the survey of more than 759 commercial farmers from winter 2012 through spring 2013.
Farmers who responded reported average increases of 11.1 bushels of corn per acre and 4. 9 bushels of soybeans per acre over prior harvests.
In percentage terms the extra bushels represent an average 9. 6-percent-greater yield in corn planted after the planting of cover crops compared with crops not preceded by cover crops.
The increase in soybeans was 11.6 percent. That's pretty impressive. The growers reported yield information from fields comparable in conditions and rotation except for the cover crops.
And the advantages for cash crops planted after cover crops were even greater in states hit hard by drought.
The states most affected by the severe 2012 drought were Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Missouri Nebraska and South dakota.
The 141 respondents from those states reported an average corn yield of 11.3 bushels per acre
which represented an 11 percent increase in crops grown after cover crops compared with those grown without them.
Respondents from the drought-affected states reported even greater benefits in soybeans: an average increase of 5. 7 bushels per acre or 14.3 percent higher yields after cover crops.
The farmers responding to the survey grew cover crops on an estimated 218000 acres in 36 states mostly in the Mississippi river basin.
Not surprisingly drought-related impacts varied across the country. But the results were solid: Farmers enjoyed better corn yields after cover crops in all but one of the states hardest hit by the drought.
Farmers expected to pay for the ecosystem services provided by cover crops and were willing to pay median costs of $25 an acre to purchase seeds and $15 an acre for cover-crop establishment (aerial distribution of seed and the eventual killing of the plants at the end of the growing season).
Farmers interested in cover crops need to decide which species to use how and when to plant them
and whether to plant single or multispecies mixes. If the wrong decisions are made cover crops might not deliver on their potential benefits
or may even be detrimental. The survey respondents reported a long list of challenges including cover-crop seed availability increased insect potential
and the risk of cover crops using too much soil moisture. Despite the challenges the surveyed farmers had increased steadily their use of cover crops over the last decade.
Last winter they reported planting cover crops on an average of 42 percent of their acreage
and planned to increase their cover-crop acreage this coming winter. The complexity of the system may explain the correlation between yield increases
and experience using cover crops. Growers with more than three years of experience working with cover crops saw a 9. 6 percent increase in corn yields
whereas growers with one to three years of experience reported a still respectable but lower 6. 1 percent boost in corn.
A complete drought tolerant package would include appropriate crop choices and specially bred varieties of crops as well as a drought tolerant system.
The crop-centered approach to drought was discussed by my colleague Doug Gurian-Sherman in hisrecent report High and Dry.
In addition to highlighting the availability of crops like sorghum and alfalfa that are inherently more drought tolerant
and might be used more often in U s. agriculture Doug also discussed the success of conventional corn breeders who have increased drought tolerance at a steady pace of 1 percent per year over decades.
Genetic engineering has yet to play an important role in drought tolerance. Only this year did agricultural biotech company Monsanto introduce its first drought tolerant seed variety Droughtgard.
According to the Monsanto website the variety has produced a five-bushel (or about 4 percent) yield advantage in field tests against competitor hybrids.
However successful crop genetics might be new plant varieties cannot compensate for the deficiencies in systems.
The fundamental requirement for combating drought is to keep moisture in the soil. Cover crops can do that and so much more.
This article was adapted from Cover crops Dramatically Increase Corn Yields specially In Drought Conditionson the UCS blog The Equation.
The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher.
This article was published originally on Livescience. com S
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