Over the course of many thousands of years, humans turned rye into a cultivated plant. In doing so, they have considerably limited its genetic flexibility. Today, wild rye not only has a more diverse… [+4024 chars]
Science & Exploration20/07/2022364 views20 likes The latest image release from ESAs Mars Express takes us over two ruptures in the martian crust that form part of the mighty Valles Marineris can… [+3497 chars]
Though it's been more than a week since NASA revealed its first exquisite set of James Webb Space Telescope images, exhilaration following that July 12 broadcast hasn't died down. And at the rate the… [+5087 chars]
Astronomers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and universities in Canada and the U.S. say they have detected a radio signal from a far-away galaxy that is flashing repetitively. In … [+3540 chars]
In a bid to solve our climate woes, a team of researchers from Simon Fraser University is working with the Canadian Light Source (CLS) at the University of Saskatchewan to investigate the role carbon… [+4028 chars]
NASA is reviewing its mission to visit the asteroid 16 Psyche. The Administration has convened a 15-member review board to examine the mission and its failure to meet the scheduled 2022 launch. The r… [+4750 chars]
In a win for biodiversity, scientists from George Washington University have discovered three new species of black-bellied salamander (Desmognathus quadramaculatus). These new species inhabit the sou… [+1994 chars]
It was the early '90s when, on a trip to the Space Telescope Science Institute, Dave Meyer was met by an urgent message. "You've got to see this." Elsewhere in the building, image after image was … [+12902 chars]
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Olympus Rupes is the name of the large escarpment surrounding Olympus Mons. The escarpment is a cliff where there is a large elevation change over a short distance. The elevation change from the lowe… [+1154 chars]
Paleontology is undergoing a new renaissance. Since the mid-20th century, genomics has become the main focus of evolutionary biology. But the last few decades have shown how the study of fossils can … [+5814 chars]
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