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An Assistant Professor of Genetics and Plant Breeding at SKUAST-Kashmir Dr Shabir H Wani, has been conferred the prestigious Dr Norman E. Borlaug Award 2026 in recognition of his outstanding ...

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In Mississippi, hunters have harvested white turkeys, copper and black turkeys and some that are a light rust or reddish color. Harvesting such a rarity always seemed like something that happened to ...

What are the origins of individual identity? That’s the primary question posed by Irmo-based artist Lucy Bailey in her ...

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In Erbil, a biological re-engineering is underway. Scientists vet 385 varieties of wheat and barley, some for up to twelve ...

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This isn’t Berghain; they’re not going to turn you away at the door; the more the merrier. Everybody who’s anybody is in the ...

Uri Alon was long puzzled by a textbook statistic: Longevity, the thinking went, was about 20 percent in our genes. “That makes you think what’s the rest of the 80 percent: Is it the lifestyle? Why ...