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The relationship between sex and age in worms
A group of scientists studying sex pheromone in worms found that this pheromone simultaneously controls a stage in the worms' life cycle, the long-lived larval stage.
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Mushrooms can save bees
One of the biggest threats in the world for honey bees and honeycombs (varroa mite), soon will be plague. Researchers at the University of Warwick are investigating wild…
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Geneva experiment station with a war on smallpox virus in plum trees
When two plum trees and a peach tree in Niagara County, NY, responded positively to the plum pox virus (PPV) in 2006, a group that killed the virus immediately acted but…
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Modern Doping
Finnish athlete Eero Mäntyranta won all this medal at another Olympics from 1960 to 1972. Scientists only found a secret trace of success 20 years later.
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Korea successfully cloned asexual dog
Scientists in South Korea have just announced that they have succeeded in cloning the world's first cloned dogs. Yesterday (August 5), Korea officially announced the bir…
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Spiders eat together and stay together
UBC zoologists have recently discovered that the ability to work together to catch large prey has allowed spiders to live in the flock to expand the law of nature to rea…
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Announced 3 new lilac flower varieties
Lilacs. The name evokes nostalgia for the spring days full of life and colorful flowers that give off the aroma. Lilacs have long been a beloved plant in the garden or y…
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Mosses and insects once dominated Antarctica
American geological experts have found evidence that barren valleys in Antarctica were once inhabited by moss and insects.
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How do bacteria get iron from humans?
Like humans, bacteria need iron to survive and they must also take iron from their environment. While humans take iron primarily through food, bacteria evolve complex an…
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The strange sex life of a melon
French scientists have just discovered a gene that can change the sex of the melon flower, so that a plant can produce both male and bisexual flowers.
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Hanoi: Cleaning lake water with internal technology
On June 25, Ho Van with Kim Chau Island is famous in history books and is an indispensable part of the architectural complex of Van Mieu - Quoc Tu Giam historical and cu…
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Decode the genome of the world's most harmful insect
Scientists from the CSIRO Foundation and the University of Melbourne in Australia and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, are about to make a discovery that co…
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Insecticides can kill 3 generations of cockroaches
According to Purdue University entomologists in the process of testing the effectiveness of specialized gel primers, only one dose of insecticide can kill three generati…
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Mexican people planted corn 10,000 years ago
The ancestor of the original corn plant grows wild in completely different Mexico, the modern plant is the most important food source in the world. While the evidence ob…
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The bacteria that cause Lyme disease originate in Europe before the Ice Age
Researchers at the University of Bath have recently discovered a bacterium that causes Lyme disease originating in Europe, not North America, as previously thought.