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Mouse genes and people are different than we thought
About a fifth of the rat species are new versions that appear in the past 90 million years of evolution.
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Take a picture of the drug-resistant Ecoli virus
Japanese scientists have for the first time captured photographs of
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Blood sucking insects scatter in Africa
A blood-sucking bug causes a disease with symptoms that only appear in horror movies that make more than 20,000 Ugandans ...
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Human genome mystery
Scientists have not yet grasped the number of genes needed to make humans, but only more human genes than chicken genes but less than tiny grapes.
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Wild rice helps solve the lack of food
Wild rice in Australia has been used to breed the crop, helping meet future food security needs.
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New era: Energy is mainly wind and sun?
Continuous research and development of alternative energy sources will quickly promote the emergence of a new era in Human History, in which two renewable sources are wi…
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Ants will discover the aging process in humans
Dr. Danny Reinberg, of New York University, was awarded the ants' epigenetics research to help determine the impact of lifestyle and environment on genes.
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Ants know how to produce antibiotics
An ant in the Americas uses a variety of antibiotics to kill harmful fungi and bacteria for their food.
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There will be many delicious apples thanks to the new genome map
In a report published in the journal Nature-Genetics, an international team of scientists said they have successfully mapped the genome map of the Golden Delicious apple.
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Argentina produces biofuels from marine algae
Argentina's Oilfox SA has inaugurated the first algae-based biodiesel plant in Latin America, with the goal of gradually replacing the production of biofuels from soybea…
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Learn how to counter fake money from butterfly wings
Strange optical effects on butterfly wings can help people encrypt information on banknotes or other precious objects to prevent counterfeiting.
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Find gold with bacteria
Testing the presence of bacteria is a way for people to quickly determine whether gold is in the soil.
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The bumblebees do not accept deceit
Every fraudulent act of the bumblebee's power is appropriately punished.
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Producing biofuel from dry straw and trees
Scientists at the University of Twente (Netherlands) have just studied a new method that can extract biofuels with high efficiency and low cost from agricultural and for…
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The company 's deep army straightened its way across the road
The news network Sina Hong Kong on September 6 reported that Jamie Rooney, an English tourist who was walking in South Africa Kruger National Park, captured the extremel…