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University of Texas: Self-Watering Soil Could Transform Farming
November 03, 2020
AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 3 (TNSJou) -- The University of Texas issued the following news release:

A new type of soil created by engineers at The University of Texas at Austin can pull water from the air and distribute it to plants, potentially expanding the map of farmable land around the globe to previously inhospitable places and reducing water use in agriculture at a time of growing droughts.

As published in ACS Materials Letters, the team's atmospheric water irrigat . . .

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