Plant Genetic Engineering Drives Next Era of Crop Innovation | Newswise

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Plant Genetic Engineering Drives Next Era of Crop Innovation | Newswise

Newswise – Review covers biological and non-biological modification techniques that enable efficient introduction of beneficial genes into plants. It also describes recent advances that improve the efficiency of transformation and expand the range of transgenic crops, providing new tools for developing high-yield, climate-resistant, and disease-resistant crops to support global food security. Genetic modification of plants … Read more

Black Hole Runs Out of Gas, Rapidly Shrinking Its Galaxy

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Hubble Space Telescope view of the galaxy Markarian 509 with its bright AGN at its heart. In addition to J0218-0036, other galaxies have these objects, too. Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Kriss (STScI) and J. de Plaa (SRON)

It is not often that astronomers can see large changes in the brightness of a galaxy within a few years. Most galaxies change in brightness (and other properties) over millions or billions of years. So, when images of the distant 10-billion-light-year galaxy J0218-0036 showed that it dimmed to a twentieth of its previous brightness in … Read more

Concept of the Uranus CASMIUS Mission to Explore the Great Secrets of Ice

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Image of Uranus taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam). Along with the rings, this image also shows nine of Uranus' 27 moons. (Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI)

The ice giant Uranus is one of the most fascinating objects in the solar system, with its side-by-side rotation, complex ring system and unique family of moons. However, it is also one of the least studied objects in the planetary system, due to its extreme distance from the Sun. While NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft remains … Read more

Scientists simulating the Big Bang accidentally turn lead into gold

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Lead and gold are different elements, with a difference of three protons between them

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Video: A ‘powerful storm’ of snow geese begins heading for the Arctic

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Europe's aging grid puts clean energy projects at risk of 'waste'

Bird watchers gather to share in one of nature’s most spectacular spectacles: a “blizzard” of snow geese flying over a Pennsylvania lake. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING It is as if they are gathered in the darkness of the morning, waiting for the time when thousands of migrating birds stop chirping and chirping. They are rewarded with a … Read more

Study suggests genetic basis for strong sex bias in autism

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Study suggests genetic basis for strong sex bias in autism

Autism has a significant and persistent sex bias, with approximately four boys diagnosed for every girl. For years, experts have believed that this disparity stems primarily from a lack of diagnosis because most autism research — and the diagnostic tools that came out of it — have focused on boys, effectively setting male standards for … Read more

Scientific breakthrough when researchers accidentally turn lead into gold while trying to recreate the Big Bang

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The Alchemist

Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider accidentally turned lead into gold while trying to recreate the Big Bang. Researchers working on the “Alice” experiment at Cern, Switzerland, have produced a rare precious metal as they try to recreate conditions from shortly after the universe began. Medieval alchemists had tried to turn lead into gold for … Read more

Solving quantum computing problems – Nature Electronics

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Solving quantum computing problems - Nature Electronics

From scaling to error correction, many problems still need to be solved before a working quantum computer can be built, but researchers continue to find the necessary solutions. Quantum computers can be used to solve complex problems that are impossible for the most conventional computer. But building a working quantum computer is, of course, not … Read more

Quantum Computing Builds an Impossible Molecule – with Big Implications

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Dyson orbital

Isosurface of the Dyson orbital, taken from Piccinelli, Samuele, et al., “Exploring paths towards quantum chemistry: the case of a molecule with a half-Möbius topology,” arXiv, 9 March 2026. arXiv:2603.08696 A recent paper in the journal Science announced the discovery of a truly new and surprising substance that could have a major impact on our … Read more