Jumping genes drive sex chromosome changes in strawberries
The discovery shows that plant sex regions can 'jump' and indicates that the phenomenon may be adaptive by gathering and locking new genes into linkage with sex.
Microsoft Azure Devops Services puts devops in the cloud
Microsoft has launched its Azure Devops platform, featuring a set of cloud-hosted services including CI/CD, testing, and kanban project boards. It is free for open source projects and for teams of fiv..
Microsoft Azure Devops Services puts devops in the cloud
Microsoft has launched its Azure Devops platform, featuring a set of cloud-hosted services including CI/CD, testing, and kanban project boards. It is free for open source projects and for teams of fiv..
These hilarious memes on The Nun will scare away your Monday blues
The demon nun from Conjuring franchise’s latest movie, The Nun, is making people laugh with funny memes.
Scientists find stable sea levels during last interglacial
The magnitude and trajectory of sea-level change during the Last Interglacial, more specifically Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 5e, is uncertain. To date the consensus view has been that sea-level may hav..
Warming: Peatlands will store more carbon initially, but that will change
Peatlands are extremely effective at storing carbon, but an international study has found climate change could stop that. The group investigated how peatlands – swamps and bogs with organic rich soils..
Just seven photons can act like billions
A system made of just a handful of particles acts just like larger systems, allowing scientists to study quantum behavior more easily.
Toward fusion power: Optimal magnetic fields for suppressing instabilities in tokamaks
Scientists have developed a new method for reducing instabilities in fusion plasmas without triggering a fresh problem.
Graphene enables clock rates in the terahertz range
Graphene is considered a promising candidate for the nanoelectronics of the future. In theory, it should allow clock rates up to a thousand times faster than today's silicon-based electronics. Sc..
New technique reveals how Zika virus interacts inside our cells
Scientists have developed a new technique that can determine how viruses interact with a host's own RNA. As well as providing insight into how viruses direct the host cell to create new virus par..