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You can’t spot an aggressive dog just from its looks or breed. Genetic testing could better predict which dogs will bite.

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PanMAN data structures compress pangenomes massively, encode evolutionary histories, and enable scalable analysis of millions of genomes.

Engineers at the University of California have developed a new data structure and compression technique that enables the ...

A new study theorizes that evolution ticks at different speeds, especially when a big group of organisms first appears.

The easiest way is a cut test. Take random samples of ~10 fruits/seeds and cut them in half to see if solid. Many maples, paper bark, three-flower, and sugar, when cut, are hollow. In the Dirr garden, ...