Scientists find genes to save ash trees from deadly beetle
An international team of scientists have identified candidate resistance genes that could protect ash trees from the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB), a deadly pest...
A stitch in time: How a quantum physicist invented new code from old tricks
A scientist at the University of Sydney has achieved what one quantum industry insider has described as "something that many researchers thought was impossible".
Dr....
Past is prologue: Genetic ‘memory’ of ancestral environments helps organisms readapt
Organisms carry long-term "memories" of their ancestral homelands that help them adapt to environmental change, according to a new study that involved raising chickens...
Mississippi Delta marshes in a state of irreversible collapse, study shows
Given the present-day rate of global sea-level rise, remaining marshes in the Mississippi Delta are likely to drown, according to a new Tulane University...
Scientists solve half-century-old magnesium dimer mystery
Magnesium dimer (Mg2) is a fragile molecule consisting of two weakly interacting atoms held together by the laws of quantum mechanics. It has recently...
Algal genome provides insights into first land plants
Cornell researchers have sequenced and analyzed the genome of a single-celled alga that belongs to the closest lineage to terrestrial plants and provides many...
When predictions of theoretical chemists become reality
Thomas Heine, professor of theoretical chemistry at TU Dresden, together with his team, first predicted a topological 2-D polymer in 2019. Only one year...
Oriented hexagonal boron nitride foster new type of information carrier
Today's computers use the presence or absence of charge (0s and 1s) to encode information, where the physical motion of charges consume energy and...
Migration patterns reveal an Eden for ancient humans and animals
Home to some of the richest evidence for the behavior and culture of the earliest clearly modern humans, the submerged shelf called the Palaeo-Agulhas...
ALMA spots twinkling heart of Milky Way
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) found quasi-periodic flickers in millimeter-waves from the center of the Milky Way, Sagittarius (Sgr) A*. The...
Bumblebees speed up flowering by piercing plants
When pollen is in short supply, bumblebees damage plant leaves in a way that accelerates flower production, as an ETH research team headed up...
