How do plants make oxygen? Ask cyanobacteria
The ability to generate oxygen through photosynthesis–that helpful service performed by plants and algae, making life possible for humans and animals on Earth–evolved just once, roug...
Highway to health: New findings point way to more nutritious crops: Researchers uncover inner workings of plant circulation and storage
What we eat is mostly fruits, roots and seeds, cereals and so on, said Knoblauch. Facilitating the process are plasmodesmata, pores connecting neighboring cells. They also saw for th...
Geoengineering is an essential bridge to true sustainability
Much more research funding is needed, but such innovation will take time. This year, for the first time, the US Government office that oversees federally funded climate studies is fo...
DNA of early Neanderthal gives timeline for new modern human-related dispersal from Africa
Complicated relationship between Neanderthals and modern humans Prior research analyzing nuclear DNA from Neanderthals and modern humans estimated the split of the two groups at app...
DF Command in Linux
Df Command in Linux The Linux df command, also known as disk free, is used to display free and used disk space for each file system on Linux and Unix-like systems. By default, the L...
Cool the Planet? Geoengineering Is Easier Said Than Done
The idea, Lohmann said, is to inject solid particles, like desert dust, into the atmosphere at spots slightly lower than where cirrus clouds would naturally form. The researchers’ co...
Viruses switch hosts to evolve
Edward Holmes and his colleagues at the University of Sydney in Australia compared the evolutionary histories of 19 virus families with those of their animal or plant hosts. They fou...
Scientists present the most accurate time measurements of quantum jumps to date
One of the electron is ripped out of the atom, the other electron may change its quantum state. Credit: TU Wien When a quantum system changes its state, this is called a quantum jum...
Practical challenges in quantum key distribution
104 (see also ref. The CV MDI-QKD system requires high efficiency (>85%) homodyne detectors for a positive key rate.112 This efficiency requirement has been met in recent proof-of...
Oldest algal fossils found
Credit: S. Bengtson et al./PLoS Biol. (CC BY 4.0) Fossils of the earliest algae — which are closely related to the ancestors of modern plants — are rare and, until now, the most anc...
Bridging the advances in AI and quantum computing for drug discovery and longevity research
Tuesday, 22nd of November, 2016, Baltimore, MD - Insilico Medicine, Inc and YMK Photonics, Inc announced today a research collaboration and business cooperation to develop photonics ...
Ancient fossil reveals the evolution of bird legs for the first time
Credit: University of Manchester Researchers from the UK and China have found that living birds have a more crouched leg posture than their ancestors, who are generally thought to h...
World’s biggest telescope meets world’s second fastest supercomputer
Credit: Prof. Yutong Lu A prototype part of the software system to manage data from the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope has run on the world’s second fastest supercomputer in...
Video: How machine learning is transforming the world around us
Siri, will it rain today?, Facebook, tag my friend in this photo. These are just two examples of the incredible things that we ask computers to do for us. But, have you ever asked yo...
Tiny cavefish may help humans evolve to require very little sleep
The study also provides a model for understanding how the brain’s sensory systems modulate sleep and sheds light into the evolution of the significant differences in sleep duration o...
Study helps prove galaxy evolution theory
Using the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)—a huge, highly sophisticated radio telescope array situated at 16,500 feet altitu...
Stephen Hawking opens British artificial intelligence hub (Update)
British scientist Stephen Hawking arrives to attend the launch of The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI), at the University of Cambridge, in Cambridge, eastern En...
Stabilizing evolutionary forces keep ants strong
A type of natural selection, called stabilizing selection, is thought to maintain functional characteristics in species. They also assumed that the less functionally important hind s...
Soybean science blooms with supercomputers
Scientists at the University of Missouri-Columbia developed SoyKB. Resequencing data analysis takes most of our computing time on XSEDE. SoyKB is a web resource for all soybean data,...
Scientists engineer animals with ancient genes to test causes of evolution
Scientists at the University of Chicago have created the first genetically modified animals containing reconstructed ancient genes, which they used to test the evolutionary effects o...
Scientists combine satellite data and machine learning to map poverty
Stanford researchers combine high-resolution satellite imagery with powerful machine learning algorithms to predict poverty in Nigeria, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Malawi. In the cu...
Researchers sequence entire genome of seahorse, investigate essential mechanisms of evolution
They obtained new molecular evolutionary results that are relevant for biodiversity research: the loss and duplication of genes as well as the loss of regulative elements in its geno...
Probing the Association between Early Evolutionary Markers and Schizophrenia
Polygenic enrichment plots suggest a higher prevalence of schizophrenia associations in human accelerated regions, segmental duplications and ohnologs. While SNPs associated with sch...
New plant research leads to discovery of a gene that increases seed yield in maize
Researchers from VIB-UGent have discovered a gene that significantly increases plant growth and seed yield in maize. Nowadays, there is no crop in the world cultivated more than maiz...
New algorithms may revolutionize drug discoveries – and our understanding of life
A new set of machine learning algorithms developed by U of T researchers that can generate 3D structures of tiny protein molecules may revolutionize the development of drug therapies...