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Genetic improvement of crops. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Wolf Prize in Agriculture to three winners for major discoveries in developmental biology of plants that contribute to crop improvement

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The winners are Professor Elliot M. Elliot Meyerowitz from Caltech and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA, Professor Joanne Chory from the Salk Institute, USA, and Professor Venkatesan "Sundar"
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The galaxy EGS8p7 as seen from the Hubble Space Telescope (the large image and the image on the upper right, and by the Spitzer Space Telescope) lower right in infrared. I. Labbe, (Leiden University), NASA/ESA/JPL-Caltech

The most distant and therefore also the oldest galaxy so far has been discovered

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Hard quantum disks on the horizon

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An Israeli researcher discovered an unusual supernova

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DNA nanotubes: the building blocks of life

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