Moss genome shows how plants invaded the land and learned to survive heat and drought

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Twenty-eight-day-old Physcomitrella gametophyte showing the leafygametophores in the center and the protonemal filaments radiating outward.
Twenty-eight-day-old Physcomitrella gametophyte showing the leafygametophores in the center and the protonemal filaments radiating outward.

Some 400 million years ago, on a lifeless lakeshore lapped by waves, floating algae learned to survive in the open air and launched an invasion that transformed the Earth into a green paradise.


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Math study finds girls are just as good as boys

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(AP) -- Sixteen years after Barbie dolls declared, "Math class is tough!" girls are proving that when it comes to math they are just as tough as boys. In the largest study of its kind, girls measured up to boys in every ...

Plant steroids offer new paradigm for how hormones work

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Steroids bulk up plants just as they do human athletes, but the playbook of molecular signals that tell the genes to boost growth and development in plant cells is far more complicated than in human and animal cells. A new ...

Prevailing theory of aging challenged in Stanford worm study

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Age may not be rust after all. Specific genetic instructions drive aging in worms, report researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Their discovery contradicts the prevailing theory that aging is a buildup ...

UC Santa Barbara chemist goes nano with CoQ10

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If Bruce Lipshutz has his way, you may soon be buying bottles of water brimming with the life-sustaining coenzyme CoQ10 at your local Costco.

Region hit hard by 1993 floods showed economic resiliency, study indicates

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With the first wave of clean-up efforts behind them, residents of communities affected by this year's Midwest floods may find hope in a University of Illinois study on the economic impact of the 1993 flood that devastated ...
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