No organism is an island - a fact that also applies to plants. Healthy plants host complex microbial communities comprising over 100 bacterial species which presumably play important roles in plant growth and health. Plants ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 3, 2015
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Researchers from the University of Bristol have uncovered one of the reasons for the evolutionary success of flowering plants.
Evolution
Dec 3, 2015
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An international team led by Alexandre Santerne from Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA), made a 5-year radial velocity campaign of Kepler's giant exoplanet candidates, using the SOPHIE spectrograph (Observatory ...
Astronomy
Dec 3, 2015
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The textbooks and journals said it couldn't be done.
Polymers
Dec 3, 2015
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A team of eight engineering students from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have successfully built Singapore's first personal flying machine, dubbed Snowstorm. Comprising an intricate design of motors, propellers ...
Engineering
Dec 3, 2015
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9
Vincent can't jump just yet, but it's probably only a matter of time.
Plants & Animals
Dec 3, 2015
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The Kemper County power plant was supposed to be up and running by now, showing the world how to burn coal without spewing climate-warming carbon pollution into the air.
Environment
Dec 3, 2015
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Stochastic acceleration and shock acceleration are well recognized as key mechanisms for cosmic ray generation since they were first proposed by Fermi. These two mechanisms have been widely investigated via analytical models ...
Plasma Physics
Dec 3, 2015
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The heaviest rainfall in more than 100 years has devastated swathes of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, forcing thousands to leave their submerged homes as schools, offices and an airport remained shut for a second ...
Environment
Dec 3, 2015
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Researchers from FOM institute AMOLF have discovered a new technique to make transparent conductors used in electronics such as solar cells and smartphones. The technique is a combination of a stamping mechanism on the nanoscale ...
Nanomaterials
Dec 3, 2015
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