Freedom!" was Mel Gibson's final soul-shattering battle-cry as he re-enacted William Wallace's final tortured moments in Braveheart – Gibson's homage to the knight who led the First War of Scottish Independence.

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To make lower-alcohol wines it might be best to choose the simplest approach; harvest the grapes earlier. However, this choice has implications for the composition and quality of the resulting wine as the grapes may lack phenolic ripeness. A new innovation in technology helps by including the use of ultrasound for wineries.

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A team of U.S. researchers has taken a major step toward autonomous cotton harvesting with the development of CottonSim—a visually guided robot that successfully navigates through a virtual cotton field and detects cotton bolls using AI.

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Regenerative agriculture not only matches the productivity requirements of traditional agriculture; according to some metrics, it often exceeds them.

In the past, discovering a new wine might have meant browsing a bottle shop, flipping through a sommelier's list, or seeking the advice of an older friend with a taste for the finer things. It was a slow, intimidating process, one that often came with a sense of performance or pressure – especially for younger, less experienced drinkers.

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Researchers found that Europe has endured the worst effects of climate change, with higher temperatures and more extreme heat days than other continents. Dr Elizabeth Wolkovich of the University of British Columbia, who led the study, said the data was ‘sobering’.