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An image of a tractor ploughing a field of green crops.

±¬ÁÏTV study shows potential to reduce reliance on non-renewable fertilisers in agriculture

An enzyme that can help release phosphorus from its organic forms has been identified in a study from the ±¬ÁÏTV’s Institute for Sustainable Food, published in leading science journal PNAS.
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New study finally proves that birds are more colourful near the Equator

The long-held theory that birds closer to the equator are more colourful than birds nearer the poles has been proven by scientists at the ±¬ÁÏTV.
A fruit fly on a leaf

Fruit flies have super resolution stereo vision

Fruit flies are able to see the world more clearly and accurately than first thought, according to a breakthrough into understanding depth perception.