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Blue roses to debut in Japan

Which colour would you like your roses? Red, white, yellow... or perhaps blue?

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 1

Plant gene replacement results in the world's only blue rose

Australian and Japanese researchers have demonstrated the application of RNAi technology for gene replacement in plants, developing the world's only blue rose.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Apr 04, 2005 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (107) | comments 2




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The smoky pink core of the Omega Nebula

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new image of the Omega Nebula, captured by ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), is one of the sharpest of this object ever taken from the ground. It shows the dusty, rose-coloured central parts ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

To children (but not adults) a rose by any other name is still a rose

New research challenges the conventional thinking that young children use language just as adults do to help classify and understand objects in the world around them.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 27, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Kenya HIV families torn between health or food

(AP) -- Rosalia Adhiambo won't take the free anti-HIV drugs that would prolong her life. The spiraling price of food in Kenya means she can't afford to feed both her grandniece and herself.

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A 'Rose' made of galaxies

(PhysOrg.com) -- In celebration of the twenty-first anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope's deployment in April 2011, astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute pointed Hubble's eye to an especially ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

The Bronze Age - now in 3D

(PhysOrg.com) -- The world will get its first glimpse of one of the most significant later Bronze Age sites ever recorded in Britain today, yielding a rare and extraordinarily detailed view of life 3,000 years ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Early Earth may have been prone to deep freezes: study

Two University of Colorado Boulder researchers who have adapted a three-dimensional, general circulation model of Earth's climate to a time some 2.8 billion years ago when the sun was significantly fainter than present think ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Gypsies, graveyards and mysterious plants

A U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientist has confirmed the identity of a strange grass-like sedge discovered in a Mississippi graveyard, and believes the appearance of the potentially invasive plant is linked to ...

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

India's TCS slides near 8% as earnings disappoint

Shares in India's biggest software exporter TCS plunged nearly eight percent on Tuesday, a day after the firm posted earnings figures that fell short of market expectations.

Technology / Business

created Oct 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Dream is over for Virgin Galactic space tourist

Venture capitalist Alan Walton has trekked to the North Pole, climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and skydived over Mount Everest. A hop into space to enjoy a few minutes of weightlessness would have been the ultimate ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 04, 2011 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (7) | comments 23

With Jobs out as CEO, Apple looks to the future

(AP) -- Since Steve Jobs' return to Apple Inc. in 1997 as CEO, the company has been on an unparalleled upswing, highlighted by the immense popularity of the iPad and iPhone.

Technology / Business

created Aug 25, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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