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Technology stretches avocado ripeness
Many an avocado lover has waited for the right moment to cut into the creamy fruit only to discover the fleeting window of perfect ripeness has passed. A new technology that extends the life of avocados and other produce promises to save millions of avocados from an untimely end in the trash, and it’s arriving …
Record-breaking seaweed bloom stretches from west Africa to Mexico
Researchers at the University of Southern Florida used satellite imagery to determine that the giant floating mass of seaweed is a whopping 8,850 kilometers (5,000 miles) long. It weighs an estimated 20 million metric tons, or the equivalent of 1.6 million double-decker buses. Scientists first noticed that seaweed was spreading rapidly across the Atlantic and …