In many plant breeding programs, secondary traits other than the main trait of interest, are routinely collected throughout the year. These layers of information are referred to as ‘omics’, and ...

A team of researchers has uncovered a direct genetic link between fluorescence and color in sea anemones -- those soft and tentacled tide pool creatures often encountered by beachgoers. For the first ...

This summer, more than 3500 ecologists from across North America (and around the world) gathered in Montréal for the 2022 joint meeting of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) and the Canadian ...

BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a highly competitive five-year award to Battelle for the continued operations and maintenance of the National ...

Meet Ruby, the neon waitress at the entrance to the Science Museum of Western Virginia’s exhibition-in-progress, “In the Glow: The Science Behind the Art of Neon.” You walk into the darkness of the ...

On Earth, helium is a gas used to float balloons, as in the movie “Up.” In the interior of Jupiter, however, conditions are so strange that, according to predictions by University of California, ...

As with so many inventions the new neon gaslight signs now rapidly appearing in every large city of the world have aroused suspicion—that they gave out ultraviolet rays injurious to the eyes. In ...

When people see an advertising sign in which the letters or designs are formed by slender glowing glass tubes, they may know at once that it is a neon light sign. Although effective as displays, these ...