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Credit: Graphic by Julie McMahon CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Researchers report in the journal Science that they can increase plant productivity by boosting levels of three...

ANCIENT MAIZE Genome sequence of a 5,310-year-old maize cob provides new insights into the early stages of maize domestication. The specimen is important because it...

Researchers have identified a way to manipulate photosynthesis in plants to increase both their light-harvesting ability and biomass production. As the world population faces an...

Credit: Lauriebeth Leonelli and Matthew Brooks/UC Berkeley Plant biologists have bumped up crop productivity by as much as 20 percent by increasing the amount of...

Despite the vast diversity of organisms on the planet that express enzymes for the conversion of carbon dioxide into such organic compounds as sugars -...

Credit: Credit: Dr. Vikram Ravi/Caltech and Dr. Ryan Shannon/ICRAR-Curtin/CSIRO A brief but brilliant burst of radiation that travelled at least a billion light years through...

Scientists studying the Chicxulub crater have shown how large asteroid impacts deform rocks in a way that may produce habitats for early life. Around 65...

Credit: Courtesy of V. Ravi/Caltech Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are mysterious flashes of radio waves originating outside our Milky Way galaxy. A team of...

Credit: Photo by Kurt Stepnitz EAST LANSING, Mich. - Michigan State University researchers, for the first time, have identified how plants' largest cell factory moves...

EUGENE, Ore. -- (Nov. 17, 2016) -- Way before trees or lichens evolved, soils on Earth were alive, as revealed by a close examination of...

Credit: Nature Research LA JOLLA--(November 17, 2016) The Salk Institute ranks second in the world for high-quality, high-impact scientific collaborations in the life sciences, and...

Credit: Photo courtesy UW-Madison/Stephanie Precourt. MADISON, WIs. -- Computer chips in development at the University of Wisconsin-Madison could make future computers more efficient and powerful...

Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center Glioblastoma multiforme remains the most common and highly lethal brain cancer and is known for its ability to relapse. Researchers...

Credit: Dana-Farber BOSTON -- Researchers leading the largest genomic tumor profiling effort of its kind say such studies are technically feasible in a broad population...

A new study has found that women have better brainpower after menopause if they had their last baby after age 35, used hormonal contraceptives for...