Even in the ultra-dry Atacama Desert, tiny soil-dwelling nematodes are thriving in surprising diversity. Scientists found ...

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By engineering protection directly into the seed, BASF expects its new transgenic trait to deliver protection and yield benefits for soybean farmers where traditional practices and products have ...

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Competing for your country in the Olympics is arguably the highest honor an athlete can achieve. While participating in professional sports leagues is important, athletes often speak of representing ...

Artificial intelligence has attained an impressive series of feats—solving problems from the International Math Olympiad, conducting encyclopedic surveys of academic literature, and even finding ...

Older Americans can easily apply the enhanced senior deduction to their tax returns for the first time this year. Tax-filing season is officially open this year - and taxpayers age 65 and older may ...

Olympic medalist and "My New Favorite Olympian" host Adam Rippon says yes, but that there are certain ways professionals can adjust to the constant spinning. "If you watch people who are training to ...

A few years ago, when I first started experimenting with generative AI as a partner at a consulting firm, I noticed something that surprised me: It was helping me a lot more than it was helping my ...

Being more efficient and more powerful than chemical rockets, plasma engines are seen as the future of human spaceflight. While NASA-backed plasma rocket projects aim for travel times to Mars be just ...