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could take corn farming to perhaps the last place you ;d expect to see it: in underground mines and caves. Perhaps, eventually, even to other planets. It sounds like science fiction, but it real, and it could drastically change the future of food production as we know it. It all started when researchers at Purdue University tried growing corn in an abandoned limestone mine. Despite the seemingly non-ideal conditions of the mine specifically, higher concentrations of carbon dioxide and artificial light , the crops actually thrived. We coddled the plants with such luxurious conditions that the corn was touching the lamps before it had even tasseled, then-postdoctoral student Yang Yang said. So the team tried a
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is a map expert and collector, and he calls this wall map, drawn by Joseph Colton, one of his favorites. The Smithsonian combined this map from Rumsey collection with satellite images of modern New York to show how the city has changed over the last 175 years鈥攏otably, how much of the island of Manhattan consisted of wide open spaces. This is just one map in a series of maps looking at the alterations of American cities. The Smithsonian also has maps comparing modern Chicago to Chicago before the fire, Los Angeles today to the much smaller city it was in 1880, a realtors ; view of 1879 Denver to an era in which even the path of the river has changed, Washington, DC before and after it expande
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