What is the colour of the sun?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe almost certainly drew the Sun in the shape of a face in our notebook, and invariably, the color of the Sun’s face would have been yellow or orange. The real color of the sun is white. The reason that the Sun looks yellow to us is because the Earth’s atmosphere scatters higher wavelength colors, […]
Malaysia’s sweet potato expert gives her take
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Petri Dish (PD) recently interviewed Dr Tan Swee Lian, a former plant breeder with the Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute (MARDI) for 37 years. During this time, she worked mainly on cassava and the sweet potato crops. Through her research initiative MARDI came up with some fascinating cassava and sweet potato varieties. PD: […]