A research team composed of plant virologists from the Plant Virus Department at Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, the Italian National Research Council and BASF-Nunhems Italy, has recently published…
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Tomato and pepper production faces emerging threats
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How a clump of moss helped convict grave robbers in Illinois | Science
It was a particularly heinous crime. Four workers at a cemetery near Chicago dug up more than 100 bodies and dumped the remains elsewhere in the grounds, in order to resell the burial plots for profit.
Now, nearly two decades after the scandal…
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What to know about lung cancer
It can be surprising to learn that lung cancer can develop in people who have never smoked. In fact, up to 20% of lung cancers occur in people without a history of smoking. While smoking remains the leading risk factor, other contributors include…
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How moss helped solve a grave-robbing mystery
In 2009, a scandal was exposed at a cemetery just outside of Chicago. Workers at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois, were accused of exhuming old graves, dumping the remains elsewhere on the cemetery grounds, and reselling the burial plots….
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Astronomers Spot a Record-Breaking ‘Space Laser’ 8 Billion Light-Years Away : ScienceAlert
Despite sounding like something out of pulpy ’50s sci-fi, ‘space lasers’ are real – and astrophysicists have now spotted the brightest and most distant one yet.
This ‘gigamaser’ is blasting out of a gigantic galactic collision some 8 billion…
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RAM Shortage Could Kill Budget Phones: The Latest Predictions at MWC 2026
The race to build AI infrastructure has gobbled up so much memory that prices have skyrocketed, with analysts predicting that product costs will rise as a result. But the outlook is far worse than anticipated. New reports and forecasts suggest…
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Twenty percent of eligible youth prescribed GLP-1 receptor agonists
Twenty percent of potentially eligible youth are prescribed glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs), with the odds of prescription higher with increasing age, increasing body mass index (BMI), and non-Hispanic White or Hispanic race…
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Extremophile Bacteria May Hitch Rides on Asteroid Fragments
Earlier work has demonstrated that an extremophile bacterium species called Deinococcus radiodurans can survive the radiation, cold, and desiccation associated with interplanetary transport. New research shows that Deinococcus radiodurans has…
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How to live a long and healthy life, according to the ancients
Just like in the modern world, people in ancient times wanted to know how to live a long and healthy life.
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