It's taken nearly 200 years,but scientists in Arizona and Europe have teased out how the molecular switch for sex gradually and adaptively evolved in the honeybee. The first genetic mechanism for sex determination was proposed in the ...
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Profits of oil giant China Sinopec increased more than 10 billion yuan (1.6 billion U.S. dollars) in the first eleven months. Huang Shuhe, vice chairman of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC), said the ...
On Thursday, the CME Group soybean market plummeted on improved crop prospects in South America. The March corn futures contract settled 1 1/2 cents lower at $4.20. The March soybean futures contract finished 22 cents lower at $12.70. ...
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Closing Grain and Livestock Futures Mar. corn closed at $4.20 and 1/2, down 1 and 1/2 cents Jan. soybeans closed at $12.87, down 25 and 1/2 cents Jan. soybean meal closed at $423.80, down $13.90 Jan. soybean oil closed at 38.51, ...
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Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN), the only provider of fielded Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite terminals that protect the military's most sensitive information, was chosen by the U.S. Air Force under a $134,399,631 contract ...
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Indian state-run steelmaking and mining company Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL), also known as Vizag Steel, has announced that it has commissioned its steel melt shop-2 continuous caster complex. The new caster complex will enable ...
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A vaccine normally used to thwart the respiratory illness tuberculosis also might help prevent the development of multiple sclerosis, a disease of the central nervous system, a new study suggests. In people who had a first episode of ...
Space Florida's plan to build a state-run launch complex on the environmentally sensitive fringes of Kennedy Space Center is ready for its federal and public vetting over possible environmental impacts. At stake are Florida's plans for a ...
In a maze of blindingly complex reactions that snap oxygen atoms off cellulose or other bio-sources to create energy-dense fuel, the starting molecule's size has a curious effect. If the oxygen-rich molecule is too short to comfortably ...
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The realisation was as surprising as it was momentous. Toledo, long known as Glass City, needed glass, and it could no longer be manufactured locally quickly enough. So Toledo turned to China to make the 360 panels, weighing 589kg each, ...
. But as you probably already know, it all starts with having the design requirements in place before you start. Without this, you may end up with a design that is less than optimal, or worse, one that may not always operate properly. ...
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One of the biggest questions in science is how life arose from the chemical soup that existed on early Earth. One theory is that RNA, a close relative of DNA, was the first genetic molecule to arise around 4 billion years ago, but in a ...
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Stream TV Networks will be showcasing consumer-ready 4KTVs featuring breakthrough Ultra-D? glasses-free adjustable 3D technology during 2014 International CES. Of the various sizes to be brought to market by the company's brand partners in ...
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OAO Mogotex, the Mogilev-based Belarusian public joint-stock company intends to complete the modernization of its garment factory in 2014, Mogotex director general Viktor Matiyevich said at the opening of the renewed museum of the ...
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Rosneft began handling and installing oversize equipment at its Kuibyshev, Syzran, Achinsk, Komsomolsk and Angarsk refineries in early December, following the unique transport operations, one of which was noted in the Russian and European ...
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