Scientists and mungbean growers around the world now have access to an open-source website containing the latest genetic information on the qualities of 560 accessions of mungbean.
Biotechnology
Apr 20, 2017
1
74
In the first ecosystem-wide study of changing sea depths at five large coral reef tracts in Florida, the Caribbean and Hawai'i, researchers found the sea floor is eroding in all five places, and the reefs cannot keep pace ...
Environment
Apr 20, 2017
0
103
Teenagers and their technology are inseparable, but a new poll shows black teens are the most likely to have access to smartphones—which could explain why they're the biggest and most frequent users of mobile-friendly social ...
Internet
Apr 20, 2017
0
151
It only took a few drinks—and a much-younger Iqram Magdon-Ismail forgetting his wallet at home one night—for him and his friends to come up with one of the most popular ways of splitting a bill: Venmo.
Business
Apr 20, 2017
0
55
While an IUPAC definition of hydrogen bonding was only released in 2011 after decades of discussions in the scientific community, it did not take such a long time to come up with an analogous definition of halogen bonding, ...
Materials Science
Apr 20, 2017
0
61
The blue of the Calanda reservoir amid the rugged landscape of northeastern Spain, as seen by ESA's oldest – and one of its smallest – Earth-observing missions, Proba-1, midway through its 15th year of operations.
Space Exploration
Apr 20, 2017
0
49
A technique that revolutionised scientists' ability to manipulate and study materials at the nano-scale may have dramatic unintended consequences, new Oxford University research reveals.
Condensed Matter
Apr 20, 2017
1
562
Climbing the economic ladder depends on personality traits as well as financial and social background according to research from the University of Aberdeen.
Social Sciences
Apr 20, 2017
0
92
Of all the many millions of species on the planet, only humans have sequenced genomes, invented smart phones and composed moonlight sonatas. To an evolutionary biologist like me, who studies the complex behaviour of animals, ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 20, 2017
0
130
Our earliest mammalian ancestors likely skulked through the dark, using their powerful night-time vision to find food and avoid reptilian predators that hunted by day. This conclusion, published by Stanford researchers April ...
Biotechnology
Apr 20, 2017
2
131
