Scientists from MIPT (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology) and MSU (Moscow State University), under the leadership of Yan Ivanenkov, developed the first computer model predicting agrochemical activity, the beneficial ...
Materials Science
Feb 22, 2016
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A newly discovered distant relative of the duck has just been hailed as an ancestor of the biggest bird the world has ever known by a group of Australian palaeontologists.
Archaeology
Feb 22, 2016
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Texas A&M AgriLife Research is closing in on specific genetic traits in wheat that can help increase yields in the future.
Biotechnology
Feb 22, 2016
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Indonesia sank 27 impounded foreign boats on Monday, a minister said, as the world's largest archipelago nation stepped up a campaign against illegal fishing in its waters.
Ecology
Feb 22, 2016
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Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook acknowledged to employees Monday that "it does not feel right" to refuse to help the FBI hack a locked iPhone used by a gunman in the San Bernardino mass shootings. But he said that to do so would ...
Security
Feb 22, 2016
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Australia's humpback whale population is increasing by more than 10 per cent a year, and University of Queensland researchers are going to extreme lengths to find out why.
Plants & Animals
Feb 22, 2016
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Virginia Commonwealth University researchers have developed a new technique for analyzing DNA molecules. Their new research article, "Infrared laser heating applied to nanopore sensing for DNA duplex analysis," suggests the ...
Analytical Chemistry
Feb 22, 2016
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A new book, co-authored by Professor Richard Evershed of the University of Bristol, which explains the role of science in uncovering some of the century's biggest food scams is published by Bloomsbury this week.
Other
Feb 22, 2016
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Researchers within the Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech have demonstrated that eggs actively silence hundreds of paternal genes that encode ribosomal RNA, the protein factories of the cell, and that this suppression ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 22, 2016
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A Cornell study revealed the molecular mechanism of how antibiotics from human and farm animal waste become trapped in soils, findings with the potential to explain the behavior and consequences of antibiotics in the environment.
Materials Science
Feb 22, 2016
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