Major Genetic Weakness For Hybrid Breeding Revealed
Legacy hybrid corn breeding may be about to hit a crippling genetic roadblock.
Genetics & Molecular Biology
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Evolution
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You Inherited Some Of Your DNA From Ghosts
We contain evidence of biological ghosts we know nothing about. They only haunt our DNA.
Microbiology
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Why Raw Dairy Farms In California Accelerated The H5N1 Bird Flu Pandemic
Californis is the largest dairy producer in the United States. It is also the most anti-science state, distrustful of the modern world. That is why coastal cities had measles parties until the...
Ecology & Zoology
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Ground-Nesting Bee Populations Don't Get Publicity But They're Everywhere
Honeybees get attention in environmental fundraising campaigns because people don't understand pollination.(1)
Immunology
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RFK Jr Is Wrong About MRNA Vaccines - They Make COVID-19 Less Deadly
US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr has announced he is cancelling US$500 million (£374 million) of research into mRNA vaccines, citing unproven concerns about their safety and long-term...
Neuroscience
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Why Both Stimulating And Blocking GLP-1R Helps People Lose Weight
Understanding which brain circuits respond to weight loss medications and how they behave could lead to better weight loss with fewer side effects.
The Peptide Gold Rush: When Biology Meets The Algorithm
In late January 2026, New York Magazine published a striking piece of cultural reporting: wellness clinics, influencer funnels, and WhatsApp “consultants” selling the dream of brighter skin, faster…
Global microplate reader market during pandemic
A microplate reader is one of the key methods of determining the chemical or biological properties of samples inserted into microtiter plates. The medical field has used it in their studies of…
The Insect Spreading Citrus Death
In recent years the citrus industry has suffered a dramatic decrease in production. The iconic Florida citrus industry is in a disease-induced decline, ravaged by a pathogen that has cut the…
Decline in greenhouse gas emissions would reduce sea-level rise, save Arctic Sea ice
The threat of global warming can still be greatly diminished if nations cut emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases by 70 percent this century, according to a new analysis.
While global…
Biofuels could hasten climate change
April 14, 2009 – A new study finds that it will take more than 75 years for the carbon emissions saved through the use of biofuels to compensate for the carbon lost when biofuel plantations are…
Cuts in greenhouse gas emissions would save Arctic ice, reduce sea level rise
BOULDER--The threat of global warming can still be greatly diminished if nations cut emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases by 70 percent this century, according to a new analysis. While global…
Mathematics and climate change
Providence, RI---In 1994, University of Utah mathematician Ken Golden
went to the Eastern Weddell Sea for the Antarctic Zone Flux
Experiment. The sea's surface is normally covered with sea ice, the…
Ancestors of African Pygmies and neighboring farmers separated around 60,000 years ago
All African Pygmies, inhabiting a large territory extending west-to-east along Central Africa, descend from a unique population who lived around 20,000 years ago, according to an international study…
Solomon Islands earthquake sheds light on enhanced tsunami risk
The 2007 Solomon Island earthquake may point to previously unknown increased earthquake and tsunami risks because of the unusual tectonic plate geography and the sudden change in direction of the…
Understanding risk to Seattle's high-rise buildings from a giant Cascadian earthquake
Session: Deterministic Simulated Ground Motion Records Under ASCE/SEI (7-05: Guidance for the Geotechnical Industry
Location: DeAnza Ballroom 3, Thursday 9 April 2009, 8:30 a.m.
The Cascadia…
