Genetic breakthrough could guarantee wheat supplies
http://www.channel4.com/news/genetic-breakthrough-could-guarantee-wheat-supplies
A group of international scientists has cracked the complex genetic code of wheat, offering the prospect of global food security in one of the world s most important crops.
Giant black hole in tiny galaxy confounds astronomers
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20528137
Astronomers have spotted an enormous black hole - the second-heaviest ever seen - but it resides in a tiny galaxy. The galaxy NGC 1277, just a quarter the size of our own Milky Way, hosts a black hole 4,000 times larger than the one at the Milky Way's centre ...
NASA's Cassini finds evidence of sinking air on Titan
http://zeenews.india.com/news/space/nasas-cassini-finds-evidence-of-sinking-air-on-titan_813579.html
Data from the spacecraft tie a shift in seasonal sunlight to a wholesale reversal, at unexpected altitudes, in the circulation of the atmosphere of Saturn's moon.
Most genetic changes in humans occurred in past 5000 years, finds new study
http://www.washington.edu/news/2012/11/28/harmful-protein-coding-mutations-in-people-arose-largely-in-the-past-5000-to-10000-years/
NEW DELHI: In the past 5000 years, the human genome - the genetic code carried in our DNA - has accumulated a large number of variations, many of them potentially harmful.
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