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What fruit flies could teach scientists about brain imaging
Nature Podcast
Are the Seeds Growing?
William james beale wanted to know how long seeds would last in the soil, and what it took to kind of germinate them. He buried a bunch of these bottles with the idea that every five years, one of them would be dug up to see what was going on. And this experiment's ben runing for a hundred and forty two years at the moment. Researchers reckon that maybe there's 80 years left to go, so they have enough seeds to keep going. By don't think any of this explains they'r sneaking around with treasure maps in the late night parlour.
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