Mitochondrial genome editing technique yields useful traits
North Carolina State University researchers have successfully transferred an important gene from one compartment of...
Transgenic Rice Once Again Proposed as Solution to Bacterial Blight Outbreaks, This Time in Africa – Independent Science News
Scientists with an international rice initiative have been raising the alarm about a strain of...
Exploring Just How Extreme Future Storms Could Get
Source: Earth’s Future Storms that drop exceptionally high volumes of precipitation often cause flooding and...
Can animals give birth to twins?
This article is republished from The Conversation. Ask any parent—welcoming a new baby to the...
Subaru Telescope shatters limit, observes supermassive black holes in the early Universe
Scientists have only observed supermassive black holes one billion years after the Big Bang, but...
Polar experiments reveal seasonal cycle in Antarctic sea ice algae
Microbes turn the underside of the sea ice brown or green, sometimes forming thick mats...
New Horizon Prize in Physics awarded to scientists chasing mysterious black hole photon spheres
Two scientists have won a $100,000 prize for describing both the structure and a way...
What’s driving an increasing number of hurricanes to rapidly intensify?
On the morning of September 5, a loosely swirling system of thunderstorms formed off the...
Largest historic fire death toll belongs to aftermath of 1923 Japan Earthquake
Fires that raged in the days following the 1 September 1923 magnitude 7.9 Kantō earthquake...
The failed dams in Wadi Derna in Libya
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world...