Harvesting your own sunflower seeds is a rewarding end-of-summer activity. Sunflowers are annuals, completing their life cycle in one season. Annuals have four main developmental phases from seed to seed: vegetative, reproductive, ripening, and senescence. A large, fully expanded sunflower head with showy, bright-yellow, ray petals is in the full reproductive stage. Seed will be…
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NIST researcher Alshae’ Logan-Jackson looks at concentrated cells on a pore-sized membrane. This is part of the wastewater sample processing that allows microorganisms to be analyzed downstream in the wastewater surveillance testing methods. Credit: B. Hayes/NIST I grew up in a small town with limited medical resources, and I have a brother who is immunocompromised….
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SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb. (KTIV/Gray News) – An otherwise ordinary Sunday night in South Sioux City was interrupted when a car crashed through a fence and drove into a pool behind a home. The family living there saw the whole thing happen. At around 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 6, a silver sedan made a right…
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