Over the winter, eggs all of the sudden turned all however unattainable to purchase. As a hen flu outbreak rippled by dairy and poultry farms, grocery shops struggled to maintain them on cabinets.
The shortages and record-high costs in February raised prices dramatically for eating places and bakeries and led some customers to skip the breakfast staple solely. However a crew based mostly at Washington College in St. Louis has developed a tool that might assist sluggish future outbreaks by detecting hen flu in air samples in simply 5 minutes. Learn the total story.
—Carly Kay
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This Texas chemical plant may get its personal nuclear reactors
Nuclear reactors may sometime energy a chemical plant in Texas, making it the primary with such a facility onsite. The manufacturing facility, which makes plastics and different supplies, may change into a mannequin for power-hungry knowledge facilities and different industrial operations going ahead.
The plans are the work of Dow Chemical and X-energy, which final week utilized for a building allow with the Nuclear Regulatory Fee, the company within the US that governs nuclear power.
Whereas it’ll be years earlier than nuclear reactors will truly activate, this utility marks a serious milestone for the undertaking, and for the potential of superior nuclear expertise to energy industrial processes. Learn the total story.
—Casey Crownhart