Economic and population growth on top of climate change could lead to serious water shortages across a broad swath of Asia by the year 2050, a newly published study by MIT scientists has found.
Environment
Mar 30, 2016
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A British tree thought to be up to 5,000 years old has started to change sex, a "rare and unusual" phenomenon not fully understood by scientists, a botanist said Monday.
Plants & Animals
Nov 2, 2015
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In an article recently published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface, Cambridge researchers have reported on a new method to measure biomechanical noise in cells under normal growth conditions and when subjected ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 16, 2015
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Because plants cannot pick up and move, they have evolved a plethora of strategies to cope with environmental stresses, whether they bring a harsh spell of drought or a browsing deer.
Biotechnology
Oct 13, 2015
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A team of Michigan State University researchers has discovered a switch that regulates plant photosynthesis - the process that lets plants store solar energy and use it to grow and produce food.
Biotechnology
Apr 15, 2015
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Scientists have found a way to measure the unseen toll that environmental stress places on living creatures—showing that they can rev up their metabolism to work more than twice as hard as normal to cope with change.
Environment
Mar 30, 2015
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The impact of pollution on wildlife could be made dramatically worse by climate change according to a new study published today in the journal PNAS.
Ecology
Mar 2, 2015
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(Phys.org) —Scientists from Indiana University are part of a consortium that has described the transcriptome of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster in unprecedented detail, identifying thousands of new genes, transcripts ...
Biotechnology
Mar 18, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Whether a man, a mouse or a microbe, stress is bad for you. Experiments in bacteria by molecular biologists in Peter Chien's lab at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with others at MIT, have uncovered ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 16, 2013
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A team including Dartmouth researchers has uncovered a protein that plays a vital role in how plant roots use water and nutrients, a key step in improving the production and quality of crops and biofuels.
Biotechnology
Aug 12, 2013
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