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Making Cotton Seed Safe to Eat

How to make food from cotton seed by gettting rid of the toxic chemical gossypol

How to get rid of the toxic chemical gossypol from protein-rich cotton seed, so it can be used for food, without loosing it from other parts of the plant where it has an insecticidal role. Virtual reality can help amputees manage phantom limb pain. The important role of the fossil record in conservation today. Plus, why the "hessian" crucible (from Hesse in Germany) was so sort after by 15th-century alchemists.

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26 minutes

大象传媒 World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project

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