The British weren’t alone in their hunt. Chileans, New Zealanders, and South Africans, among others, were also scrambling to source this strategic substance. A few months after the Pearl Harbor attack, the U.S. War Production Board restricted American civilian use of agar in jellies, desserts, and laxatives so that the military could source a larger supply; it considered agar a “critical war material” alongside copper, nickel, and rubber.1 Only Nazi Germany could rest easy, relying on stocks from its ally Japan, where agar seaweed grew in abundance, shipped through the Indian Ocean by submarine.2
Nature, Published online: 26 February 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00622-9
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或许，长辈对我们的期待，承载着他们对于“孝”的理解与不安。如果他们与自己的父母之间拥有更稳定、更互相尊重的关系，是否也会对下一代少一些期望投射？