Microbial production of a natural red colorant carminic acid

A research group at KAIST has engineered a bacterium capable of producing a natural red colorant,…

Distinctive MJO activity during 2015/2016 super El Nino

El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is one of the most prominent ocean-atmosphere interactions that varies year-to-year. This…

Mapping North Carolina's ghost forests from 430 miles up

Emily Ury remembers the first time she saw them. She was heading east from Columbia, North…

Persisting endangered status of Serianthes nelsonii reveals need for adaptive management

A University of Guam review of published research on the critically endangered Serianthes nelsonii tree has…

For girls, learning science outside linked to better grades, knowledge

In a new study, North Carolina State University researchers found that an outdoor science program was…

How the fly selects its reproductive male

Even a well-characterized genome, such as that of the Drosophila, the so-called fruit fly, still holds…

An international study reveals how the 'guardian' of the genome works

Scientists from the Genomic Integrity and Structural Biology Group led by Rafael Fernández-Leiro at the Spanish…

Human activities sound an alarm for sea life

Humans have altered the ocean soundscape by drowning out natural noises relied upon by many marine…

Origins of life could have started with DNA-like XNAs

Nagoya University scientists in Japan have demonstrated how DNA-like molecules could have come together as a…

York Space Systems Announces Successful Test of Autonomous Operations Upgrade

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