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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 14-Jul-2025 23:11 ET (15-Jul-2025 03:11 GMT/UTC)
Branching out: Tomato genes point to new medicines
Cold Spring Harbor LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
CSHL’s Lippman and McCandlish labs have discovered how interactions between cryptic genetic mutations can increase or decrease the number of reproductive branches on tomato plants. The scientists’ findings could lead to new and improved plant breeding techniques and clinical therapeutics.
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- Nature
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- NIH/National Institutes of Health, Israel Science Foundation, Simons Center for Quantitative Biology, U.S. National Science Foundation, Plant Genome Research Program, Gatsby Charitable Foundation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Itani studying translation potential of secure & efficient software updates in industrial internet of things architectures
George Mason UniversityGrant and Award Announcement
Wassim Itani, Associate Professor, Computer Science, College of Engineering and Computing (CEC), received funding for the project: “I-Corps: Translation Potential of Secure and Efficient Software Updates in Industrial Internet of Things Architectures (IIoT).”
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- U.S. National Science Foundation
Rice researchers develop superstrong, eco-friendly materials from bacteria
Rice UniversityPeer-Reviewed Publication
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- Nature Communications
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- U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities, Welch Foundation
Gut length driven by ‘sexual conflict’ in fish species
North Carolina State UniversityPeer-Reviewed Publication
- Journal
- Genetics
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- U.S. National Science Foundation, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, U.S. Department of Agriculture, NIH/National Institutes of Health
Less snow makes trees absorb less carbon, according to new BU study
Boston UniversityPeer-Reviewed Publication
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- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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- U.S. National Science Foundation
Melting glaciers could trigger more explosive eruptions globally, finds research
European Association of GeochemistryReports and Proceedings
Melting glaciers may be silently setting the stage for more explosive and frequent volcanic eruptions in the future, according to research on six volcanoes in the Chilean Andes.
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- U.S. National Science Foundation
- Meeting
- Goldschmidt 2025
Smithsonian-led team discovers North America’s oldest known pterosaur
SmithsonianPeer-Reviewed Publication
A Smithsonian-led team of researchers have discovered North America’s oldest known pterosaur, the winged reptiles that lived alongside dinosaurs and were the first vertebrates to evolve powered flight. In a paper published today, July 7, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers led by paleontologist Ben Kligman, a Peter Buck Postdoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, present the fossilized jawbone of the new species and describe the sea gull-sized pterosaur alongside hundreds of other fossils—including one of the world’s oldest turtle fossils—unearthed at a remote bonebed in Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona.
These fossils, which date back to the late Triassic period around 209 million years ago, preserve a snapshot of a dynamic ecosystem where older groups of animals, including giant amphibians and armored crocodile relatives, lived alongside evolutionary upstarts like frogs, turtles and pterosaurs.
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- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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- Smithsonian Institution, Petrified Forest Museum Association, National Park Service, Columbia College Chicago, U.S. National Science Foundation
NSF CAREER Award funds Rice project to shrink hospital-grade imaging into wearable devices
Rice UniversityGrant and Award Announcement
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- U.S. National Science Foundation
‘Ice in a volcano’ reveals age of gas cloud at Milky Way’s center
North Carolina State UniversityPeer-Reviewed Publication
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- The Astrophysical Journal Letters
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- U.S. National Science Foundation