Adam Vaughan
‘Chemical-free weed management has presented challenges’: London council’s decision to ban glyphosate flops, leads to urban weed jungle
As any gardener who has spent the summer bent over their patio knows, tackling weeds is no easy feat. So ...
Gene-edited wheat ‘significantly lowers levels of cancer-linked acrylamide which forms when bread is baked or toasted’
A strain of gene-edited wheat that could be sold in Britain under a new law has been shown to lower ...
UK relaxing restrictions on testing CRISPR gene-edited crops
Law changes later this year will make it easier to run field trials in England on crops that are gene-edited ...
Has a less deadly version of COVID evolved in Europe?
In England, the proportion of people infected by the coronavirus who later died was certainly lower in early August than ...
Coronavirus mystery: Why aren’t there more cases in Africa?
Experts still don’t know why so few cases of the new coronavirus have been reported in Africa, despite China – ...
Could ‘ultrasonic squeals’ from plants help farmers protect water-starved crops?
Although it has been revealed in recent years that plants are capable of seeing, hearing and smelling, they are still ...
GM mosquito breakthrough: Make them all males
Scientists have hailed the genetic modification of mosquitoes that could crash the insect’s populations as a “quantum leap” that will ...
French ban of Monsanto GM maize rejected by EU
France's attempt to ban the planting of a Monsanto strain of genetically modified maize was rejected by the EU's food ...