| Friday Fabulous Flowers - Helloborus hybrids
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 Thank goodness for gardening. You've always got something to do when you have a big garden. Various cultivars and wild flowers are making their spring appearance, more or less right on time based on past flowering data. Here and there around our gardens are clusters of hellebores, great big buttercup family flowers and they are really tough, but not actually too cold hardy. TPP can remember seeing hellebores in flower for the first time. And while it was obvious what family they were in, they did not grow in upstate NY so these were new to me. They are nearly evergreen herbs and are one of the earliest plants to flower, and for some people their greatest value is that bunnies and deer don't find them very palatable. The plants are slow to get established but once you've got them going, they'll come back for years, and even produce new plants from seed. The biggest problem is that they do not make good cut flowers and the flowers on the stems are pendant or just plain droopy. Some of the newer cultivars ...
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| NASA picks SpaceX to deliver cargo to the Lunar Gateway
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 In the next few years, SpaceX will fly cargo to an orbit farther than where the ISS is. NASA has awarded the space agency with a contract to deliver critical cargo, scientific experiments and other supplies to the Lunar Gateway, which will serve as the staging point for missions headed to the lunar south pole under the Artemis program. SpaceX is the first commercial provider the agency has chosen for the project, and it's guaranteed at least two missions when the station is up and running in lunar orbit. NASA expects to start building the lunar outpost in 2022.
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| Comet Atlas could be the brightest comet in decades
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 Comet Atlas is racing toward the inner solar system, and it could become the brightest comet seen in the night sky in over two decades. The comet, discovered by an observatory designed to protect Earth from asteroids, may even be visible during the day just two months from now. Also known as C/2019 Y4, this comet was discovered by astronomers at the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in Hawaii in December 2019. At the time, the comet was exceedingly dim — but the comet became 4,000 times brighter in just a month. This increase is far greater than astronomers… This story continues at The Next Web
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| Various global medtech companies working to provide healthcare workers, patients with essential supplies
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| As India gears up to fight the coronavirus threat, the global medical technology industry is on the front lines, mobilizing at several levels, to help win this fight. Many global medtech companies are adding shifts and production lines in order to provide health care providers and patients the essential equipment and supplies they need - like diagnostic tests, personal protective products and ventilators - to detect, contain and treat this virus.While diagnostics manufacturers are increasing availability of COVID-19 tests, they are also continuing to ensure access to all the diagnostics so fundamental to patients and health care around the world.According to a press release, this is particularly essential in India, which imports around 80-85 percent of all medical devices for intensive care, including ventilators, high-end diagnostic and robotic surgery instruments.Since the domestic Indian medical devices industry remains at a nascent stage, a global partnership remains essential to .
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| Enzymes in a golden cage
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| We describe a general method for the entrapment of enzymes within bulk metallic gold. This is a new approach for the immobilization of enzymes on metals, which is commonly carried out by 2D adsorption or covalent biding, that is, the enzyme is in contact with the metal at a specific contact zone of the enzym
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