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NASA’s Phoenix probe makes first trench in science preserve on Mars

NASAWashington, June 19: NASA’s Phoenix Mars L

Bacteria anticipate and prepare for coming changes in their environment

Washington, June 19 : Despite the absence of a nervous system, bacteria anticipate and prepare for coming changes in their surroundings, a new study by Princeton University researchers has found.

Ocean temperatures and sea level increases 50 percent higher than earlier predictions

Washington, June 19 : A new research has suggested that ocean temperatures and associated sea level increases between 1961 and 2003 were 50 percent higher than earlier predictions.

Quadrupling of genes over 550 million years behind vertebrate evolution

London, June 19: Sequencing the genome of a marine invertebrate known as the lancelet, University of California-Berkeley scientists have come up with an explanation as to how a four-fold duplicatio

Parents should be able to pick baby's sex, say New Zealand experts

Wellington - Couples having IVF (in vitro fertilisation) treatment should be able to choose the sex of their babies, New Zealand's advisory Bioethics Council told the government in a report release

Australians make progress with drought-resistant wheat

Sydney  - Field trials of wheat genetically modified (GM) to be drought-tolerant have shown good results, Australian scientists said Wednesday.

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