Genetic modification can redirect a plant’s resources away from an overprepared immune system and into enhanced seed production.
Full story at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Genetic modification can redirect a plant’s resources away from an overprepared immune system and into enhanced seed production.
Full story at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
What is stopping the biggest whales from growing even bigger?
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A surprise find leads to the first formal description of Borneo’s spectacled flowerpecker, a small, gray bird previously only glimpsed in the treetops.
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Liver tumors with a lot of cellular diversity may reprogram nearby cells to create a more hospitable microenvironment for their own survival.
Full story at National Cancer Institute
There’s more than one kind of electric eel swimming in South American rivers.
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Freshwater wetlands from Georgia to New York are home to a previously unrecognized species of medicinal leech.
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Is cognitive training worth doing?
Full story at BrainFacts
Farmers in Mexico and the southwestern Amazon improved predecessors of today’s corn for thousands of years until the crop was fully domesticated.
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An ancient whale that had neither teeth nor baleen is an important link in the evolution of an extraordinary feeding strategy.
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