Nothing on the current crop of stars or this generation of music makers has been deemed worthy enough, to be studied. Why? It’s happening all over the world. The greatest pop stars, their lives and ...

Scientists decoded DNA from millennia-old lentils preserved in volcanic rock silos on Gran Canaria. The findings show that today’s Canary Island lentils largely descend from varieties brought from ...

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An international study involving INRAE and coordinated by China Agriculture University has shown that the practice of crop rotation outperforms continuous monoculture in terms of yield, nutritional ...

• The pan-genome consists of the genomes of 26 modern cultivars and landraces as well as seven wild oat lines. • The team also built a pan-transcriptome—showing which genes are active in which genomes ...

After a 35-year quest, the final solution to a famous puzzle called Kryptos has been found. Two writers discovered the fourth answer to the code hidden among the Smithsonian Institution’s archives.

After working for some time on decoding mysterious encrypted letters, the codebreakers realize that the ciphered messages might be written by Mary Stuart, the Queen of Scots herself, during a critical ...

The mystery of the now-ruined Mesoamerican city of Teotihuacan may rest in a lost language scholars said they’ve deciphered. The ruins near Mexico City include murals that scholars believe represent ...