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Growing peppers adds flavor to ethnic dishes
-Mar 31, 2023
Ezequiel Lopez-Reyes, Oregon State University Extension Service Open Campus and Juntos student success coordinator, has been growing his home garden for five years. All of his bounty goes into meals he cooks with culturally important foods.
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Juvenile black rockfish affected by marine heat wave but not always for the worse, research shows
-Mar 29, 2023
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Larvae produced by black rockfish, a linchpin of the West Coast commercial fishing industry for the past eight decades, fared better during two recent years of unusually high ocean temperatures than had been feared, new research by Oregon State University shows.
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With fewer salmon to eat, Southern Resident killer whales spend less time in the San Juan Islands
-Mar 27, 2023
As a key food supply declines, the endangered population of Southern Resident killer whales, known to frequent the Salish Sea off the coasts of Washington and British Columbia, is spending far less time in that region, a new study shows.
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Woodpecker that likes burned forest can breed in unburned woods too, research shows
-Mar 26, 2023
CORVALLIS, Ore. – A species of woodpecker once thought to limit itself to recently burned areas can breed successfully in the unburned parts of fire-prone landscapes too, according to a study by Oregon State University scientists that holds key implications for improved conservation and forest management efforts.
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Researchers develop electrolyte enabling high efficiency of safe, sustainable zinc batteries
-Mar 26, 2023
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Scientists led by an Oregon State University researcher have developed a new electrolyte that raises the efficiency of the zinc metal anode in zinc batteries to nearly 100%, a breakthrough on the way to an alternative to lithium-ion batteries for large-scale energy storage.
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