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2014-09-12
Coffee genome sheds light on the evolution of caffeine
An international research team, including Philippe Lashermes, Patrick Wincker and France Denoeud (French National Sequencing Center CEA-Genoscope) and Victor Albert (University at Buffalo), sequenced the genome of the coffee plant…
2014-04-09
An underground ocean awaits on a moon of Saturn
Astronomers have, for the first time, measured the depth and extent of a subsurface sea on the ice-covered moon Enceladus.
To peek inside Enceladus, Luciano Iess, an aerospace engineer at…
2013-12-20
Neanderthals buried their dead
Neanderthals buried their dead, an international team of archaeologists has concluded after a 13-year study of remains discovered in southwestern France.
Their findings, which appear in the journal Proceedings of…
2013-09-10
Typhleotris Mararybe
Most of the 150 or so types of cave fish pale in comparison to a newly discovered species from an isolated karst sinkhole in south-western Madagascar.
The new species, Typhleotris…
2013-09-09
New Species of Dwarf Lemur Found in Madagascar
Researchers of the universities of Mainz and Antananarivo have now identified a previously unknown species of dwarf lemur, based on fieldwork in southern Madagascar and laboratory analyses.
“Together with Malagasy…
2013-04-26
India to Get a Smartphone for the Blind
A company in India has developed a smartphone for the blind. The device will be equipped to read text messages and emails, and it will then convert the text to…
2013-04-26
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