Named after the dark stripes that form inside potatoes after they are cut and fried, zebra chip disease is a potentially devastating affliction that can result in yield losses up to 100% for farmers.
Biotechnology
Apr 18, 2019
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It's harvest time and the chips are down for potato producers in northern France where a long summer drought could see French spuds shrink in size and volume.
Environment
Oct 18, 2018
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Optimising the frying time of crisps may not be an obvious application of mathematics, but this is one of the problems delegates to the 138th European Study Group with Industry (ESGI) were asked to solve last week.
Mathematics
Jul 25, 2018
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When fat and carbohydrates are combined in a single food they are more rewarding, calorie for calorie, than foods with either energy source alone, a Yale-led study published June 14 in the journal Cell Metabolism shows.
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 15, 2018
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No cashiers, no registers and no cash—this is how Amazon sees the future of store shopping.
Business
Jan 22, 2018
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UO professor Bettina Cornwell doesn't really care for potato chips, but she found herself considering a bag while traveling alone in France and feeling a bit lonely. She was thinking about how much she missed her family when ...
Social Sciences
Aug 17, 2017
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The Central Intelligence Agency admitted this week that it had been compromised for months in 2013 by a network of high-tech snack thieves.
Security
Jun 22, 2017
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We all pursue goals. It stands to reason that we meet our goals better when we pursue them consciously. But is that really the case? Perhaps not, according to a forthcoming study in the Journal of Marketing Research. As the ...
Social Sciences
Nov 2, 2015
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The sound of a bag of potato chips being torn open cuts through a darkened movie theater. The noise, in an otherwise silent space, pinpoints for all moviegoers exactly where the chips are being devoured. According to a new ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 22, 2015
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Researchers are leaving no stone unturned when it comes to finding new ways of managing zebra chip disease and the insect that can spread it to potato crops.
Ecology
May 2, 2014
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