Polyploidy, or whole-genome duplication (WGD), is a major mechanism of genome evolution across the tree of life and is ...

The outcomes of a new study on the extent of future flooding caused by climate change along the Clyde Estuary could help ...

Christian Schubert and Scott Lafontaine are fighting an old prejudice: that rice doesn't belong in beer. Now they've got the ...

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It's well known that governing parties often lose voters over time—the so-called cost of governing. But a new study from ...

Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) continues to devastate the global swine industry, yet the ...

Using only a single-crystal piezoelectric thin wafer of lithium niobate (LN) instead of the usual two-part structure, a group ...

What processes during the formation of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, potentially led to it having cryovolcanism, and even an ...

For 50 years, scientists believed that schools of fish would save the most energy by swimming in flat diamond formations.

Researchers at the IPK Leibniz Institute have discovered a previously unknown protein that is central to plant reproduction.

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