Australian and European researchers have discovered a genetic element in a common wheat pathogen with potential to help streamline breeding for disease-resistant wheat varieties that are better suited to Australian conditions.
Molecular & Computational biology
Jan 12, 2022
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New research has shown how current red squirrel conservation strategies in the UK and Ireland, that favor non-native conifer plantations, are likely to negatively impact red squirrels.
Plants & Animals
Jan 12, 2022
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Florida, the "Sunshine State," is rapidly increasing installation of utility-scale solar energy (USSE) facilities to combat carbon emissions and climate change. However, the expansion of renewable energy may come with environmental ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 12, 2022
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Nearly three years ago University of California San Diego researchers announced the world's first CRISPR-Cas9 genetic editing-based approach to controlling inheritance in mammals.
Molecular & Computational biology
Jan 12, 2022
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The results of a comprehensive search for a background of ultra-low frequency gravitational waves has been announced by an international team of astronomers including scientists from the Institute for Gravitational Wave Astronomy ...
Astronomy
Jan 12, 2022
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San Jose's trees are slowly vanishing.
Environment
Jan 12, 2022
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The age of the oldest fossils in eastern Africa widely recognized as representing our species, Homo sapiens, has long been uncertain. Now, dating of a massive volcanic eruption in Ethiopia reveals they are much older than ...
Environment
Jan 12, 2022
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Economic growth goes down when the number of wet days and days with extreme rainfall go up, a team of Potsdam scientists finds. Rich countries are most severely affected and herein the manufacturing and service sectors, according ...
Economics & Business
Jan 12, 2022
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Scientists understand quite well how temperature affects electrical conductance in most everyday metals like copper or silver. But in recent years, researchers have turned their attention to a class of materials that do not ...
Condensed Matter
Jan 12, 2022
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The Earth sits in a 1,000-light-year-wide void surrounded by thousands of young stars—but how did those stars form?
Astronomy
Jan 12, 2022
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