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Research on ancient DNA is surging, but how can scientists ensure that human remains of irreplaceable significance are ...

In a new study, appearing in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, scientists selectively bred Japanese ...

Hidden among the red sandstone escarpments of Mutawintji National Park in western New South Wales lives a rare lizard, long ...

New research from the UBC-based Mother Tree Project is shedding light on how forests respond to harvesting and climate stress ...

Rice has historically been a heat-loving plant. In fact, the wild ancestor of cultivated rice once grew primarily on the ...

Beginning in the 1950s, silicon transformed the electronics industry by enabling smaller and faster devices that could be ...

Microplastics and nanoplastics are tiny plastic particles that result from the breakdown of larger plastic products due to ...

A new study by Hashem Akbari, a professor in the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, offers a ...