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The noodles are 'full long'
Biology

The noodles are 'full long'

North Korean scientists say they have produced a kind of noodle that helps long-term eaters feel hungry.

December 17, 2018
Mushrooms help beetles digest wood
Biology

Mushrooms help beetles digest wood

According to a group of entomologists and biochemists, a small, little-known fungus in the gut of Asian long-horned beetles has helped them chew the hardest wood.

December 17, 2018
Life before protein
Biology

Life before protein

Early cells may have energized through molecular membranes with fat. Long before the chickens and eggs, life had to solve the difficult problem of 'chicken first or eggs…

December 17, 2018
Keep beer fresher
Biology

Keep beer fresher

Scientists in Venezuela have announced a progress in a thousand-year effort to preserve the beer that beer drinkers love more than all other features of this drink.

December 17, 2018
Space vegetables
Biology

Space vegetables

You can lose your soul when you come across a 9.5 kg tomato, squash weighs 95 kg, eggplant weighs 6.3 kg, a cucumber is 0.6 m long or 23 cm long ...

December 17, 2018
New step of artificial photosynthesis
Biology

New step of artificial photosynthesis

Scientists at the Jülich Research Center have taken an important step on the long path to imitate artificial photosynthesis. They can synthesize a stable group of inorga…

December 17, 2018
Improve fiber material from bamboo
Biology

Improve fiber material from bamboo

Concerns about long-lasting yarns are creating favorable conditions for the booming of bamboo forests, in which bamboo-based fabrics are becoming the leading environment…

December 17, 2018
Discover the gene that forms the fruit shape
Biology

Discover the gene that forms the fruit shape

The gene, SUN, is only the second gene discovered to play an important role in forming the long form of many different tomato varieties, according to Esther van der Knaa…

December 17, 2018
'Super mouse' runs fast, lives long ...
Biology

'Super mouse' runs fast, lives long ...

The research team at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, has released genetically modified mice that are able to run twice as fast as normal mice.

December 17, 2018
Early days of chocolate
Biology

Early days of chocolate

Long before the Aztecs brought chocolate to the world, more ancient civilizations used cocoa, the source of chocolate-making materials, to create a completely different…

December 17, 2018