The New York Times – “There’s no substantive argument about whether the problem’s gotten far worse in this era of genetically resistant crops,” said Charles Benbrook, a professor and pesticide expert at Washington State University. “The advent of herbicide-tolerant crops made it possible for farmers to load up so much herbicide on one crop that it was inevitable that it would develop resistance.”
BBC Nature News – The scientists, led by Dr Joanna Kelley, from Washington State University, US, wanted to sequence the genome to understand how the midge adapted to the extreme environment it lives in.
The Daily Mail UK – The discovery renews hope of finding alien life in Titan, which has hydrocarbon lakes on its surface, Dirk Schulze-Makuch, an astrobiologist at Washington State University in Pullman, told Live Science.