Gene Could Improve Crop Yields
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EDINBURGH, Scotland, Sept. 9 (UPI) — A discovery in plant genetics could help scientists develop crops that could grow well in cooler conditions, U.K. researchers say. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh were part of a study that found a gene ...

Team Makes Voices Clearer for Recognition
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TUNIS, Tunisia, Sept. 9 (UPI) — Researchers in Tunisia say they’ve developed a method of making voice signals clearer for ubiquitous speech recognition systems to understand. As the recognition systems become commonplace — in computers, at call cent ...

Robots Programmed to Deceive
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ATLANTA, Sept. 9 (UPI) — U.S. researchers say they’ve given robots the ability to lie — or at least to deceive — in what they say could be a valuable capability. Georgia Institute of Technology scientists have conducted experiments in what is believ ...

New Measurements Support Water on Mars
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TUCSON, Sept. 9 (UPI) — Measurements by NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander are evidence liquid water has had an impact on the planet’s surface throughout its history, U.S. researchers say. Measurements made by the spacecraft’s Evolved Gas Analyzer, designed ...

Study: Irrigation Affecting Global Warming
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NEW YORK, Sept. 8 (UPI) — Expanding irrigation is helping feed the world’s billions of people and may even mask global warming, but the future could bring problems, scientists say. Columbia University researchers say some major groundwater aquifers, ...

Gene Identified As Spinal Cord Organizer
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NEW YORK, Sept. 8 (UPI) — The discovery of a single gene that organizes motor neurons in the spinal cord could lead to treatments for spinal injuries and diseases, U.S. researchers say. Scientists at New York University, in an article in the journal ...

‘Traffic Cop’ Brain Enzyme Identified
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ATLANTA, Sept. 8 (UPI) — U.S. scientists say a newly identified enzyme acting as a “traffic engineer” in the human nervous system could lead to new treatments of neurological diseases. University of Georgia researchers found that a protein known as ...

Study: Earth’s Last Ice Age Not Worldwide
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NEW YORK, Sept. 8 (UPI) — U.S. scientists say Earth’s last ice age, about 13,000 years ago, saw Europe freezing while the antarctic was warming up, an anomaly that has long puzzled them. Researchers at Columbia University, in a study published in th ...

Aluminum ‘nanometal’ is Strong As Steel
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RALEIGH, N.C., Sept. 8 (UPI) — U.S. researchers say they’ve learned how make an aluminum alloy — a mixture of aluminum and other elements — that’s as strong as steel. North Carolina State University scientists say the search for ever lighter yet str ...

Researchers ‘read’ Words in Brain Signals
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SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 7 (UPI) — U.S. researchers say they’ve translated brain signals into words, a step toward allowing severely paralyzed people to use their thoughts to “talk.” University of Utah scientists translated signals generated by the bra ...


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