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New 3D model predicts best planting practices for farmers

Claire Benjamin

Jun 23, 2017
2 min

New 3D model predicts best planting practices for farmers

Now a computer model can answer farmers' planting questions by comparing billions of virtual fields with different planting densities, r

Soybean plants with fewer leaves yield more

Claire Benjamin

Nov 19, 2016
3 min

Soybean plants with fewer leaves yield more

Using computer model simulations, scientists have predicted that modern soybean crops produce more leaves than they need to the detriment...

Klaus Schulten: Seeing with the quantum biology of vision

Claire Benjamin

Apr 17, 2015
3 min

Klaus Schulten: Seeing with the quantum biology of vision

Klaus Schulten drafts blueprints of life—not with a pen, but with a computer program that his group developed over the last two decades....