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Your morning coffee may be more than a half million years old
Publicado em 15 de abril de 2024
That coffee you slurped this morning? It’s 600,000 years old.
Using genes from coffee plants around the world, researchers built a family tree for the world’s most popular type of coffee, known to scientists as Coffea arabica and to coffee lovers simply as “arabica.”
The researchers, hoping to learn more about the plants to better protect them from pests and climate change, found that the species emerged around 600,000 years ago through natural crossbreeding of two [...]
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Ese café de la mañana podría haber surgido hace más de medio millón de años
Publicado em 15 abril 2024¿Ese café que nos servimos por la mañana? Tiene 600.000 años de antigüedad. Valiéndose de genes de plantas de café de todo el mundo, investigadores elaboraron un árbol genealógico para el tipo de café más popular del mundo, conocido por los científicos como cafeto arábigo y por los amantes del café simplemente como “arábigo”. Los investigadores, con la esperanza de aprender [...]ver notícia -
Jolting discovery: Powerful new electric eel found
Publicado em 12 setembro 2019Researchers report two newly discovered species of electric eels in South America, one of which can deliver a bigger jolt than any other known animal. The researchers collected 107 eels in four countries and found differences in their DNA, along with minor physical variations. One species had the ability to generate 860 volts of electricity, more than the 650 volts discharged by the only previously identified type of electric eel. While 250 species of fish in South America generate [...]ver notícia