Farmers can grow big, juicy tomatoes thanks to a mutation in the Cell Size Regulator gene that occurred during the tomato domestication process. Esther van der Knaap of the University of Georgia, Athens and colleagues describe ...
Biotechnology
Aug 17, 2017
0
158
It all began with a bet at a conference in Italy in 2013. Nicolas Vogel, Ph.D., then a postdoctoral fellow in Joanna Aizenberg's lab at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and Harvard's ...
Materials Science
Aug 17, 2017
0
73
HBO says it has regained control of its social media accounts after the latest security breach to hit the entertainment company.
Security
Aug 17, 2017
0
2
Older adults are drawn to Facebook so they can check out pictures and updates from family and friends, but may resist using the site because they are worried about who will see their own content, according to a team of researchers.
Internet
Aug 17, 2017
0
1
A drug-like molecule developed by Duke Health researchers appears to intercede in an inflammatory response that is at the center of a variety of diseases, including some cancers, rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn's disease.
Biochemistry
Aug 17, 2017
0
4
A team of Army scientists and engineers have challenged long-held views in the area of human-autonomy interaction to change the way science involves people, especially in developing advanced technical systems that involve ...
Robotics
Aug 17, 2017
1
3
The US Army Research Laboratory is working on developing new light-weight ceramic materials that resist fracture, and has teamed with researchers from the University of Florida to better understand exactly how these materials, ...
Materials Science
Aug 17, 2017
0
2
Researchers recently showed that migratory reed warblers depend on an internal geomagnetic map to guide them on their long-distance journeys. But it wasn't clear how the birds were solving the relatively difficult "longitude ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 17, 2017
0
85
Forest fires cut off a village of 2,000 people in Portugal, as firefighters struggled Thursday to control two major blazes in the centre of the country, local officials said.
Environment
Aug 17, 2017
0
10
Spacewalking cosmonauts set free the world's first satellite made almost entirely with a 3-D printer on Thursday.
Space Exploration
Aug 17, 2017
1
148
