The formation of a human embryo starts with the fertilization of the oocyte by the sperm cell. This yields the zygote, the primordial cell that carries one copy each of the maternal and paternal genomes. However, this genetic ...
Biotechnology
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Plant cell wall growth is typically described as a simple process, but researchers using a microscope that can resolve images on the nanoscale level have observed something more complex.
Cell & Microbiology
May 1, 2017
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Plant a tree, save the world?
Environment
May 1, 2017
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A University of Oklahoma research team with the Advanced Radar Research Center has developed the first numerical polarimetric radar simulator to study and characterize scattering mechanisms of debris particles in tornadoes. ...
Earth Sciences
May 1, 2017
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With tipping a central part of the American restaurant industry, better service often is attributed to whether or not a server believes a customer will be a good tipper. Now, researchers at the University of Missouri have ...
Economics & Business
May 1, 2017
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When it comes to sharing new research findings with the world, Twitter has emerged as a key tool for scientists - and for the journals where they publish their findings.
Social Sciences
May 1, 2017
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A major earthquake in northwest British Columbia shook up communities in nearby Alaska but caused no apparent damage.
Environment
May 1, 2017
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The nation's first offshore wind farm is powering more of Rhode Island.
Energy & Green Tech
May 1, 2017
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When it comes to identity theft, you need to protect the mailbox at your house as much as your email inbox, according to a new report from the Center for Identity at The University of Texas at Austin.
Security
May 1, 2017
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Peter Jackson employed an intricate approach to the stage design of Lord of the Rings. The people who inhabited Middle Earth for hundreds of generations slowly left cultural traces, alterations, artefacts and remnants of ...
Energy & Green Tech
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