Published on: 2025-08-09 00:39:59
Gregor Mendel cross-bred some 28,000 garden pea plants (Pisum sativum) and studied traits such as their flower colour to make discoveries about genetic inheritance.Credit: imageBROKER/Alamy The Augustinian friar Gregor Mendel completed his groundbreaking work on genetic inheritance more than 160 years ago, after carefully studying seven traits in peas, including the shape and colour of their seeds and pods. Yet until now, scientists still hadn’t worked out which genes drive three of those trait
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Amateur photographers hope to fix Wikipedia's 'terrible' pictures 2 hours ago Share Save Graham Fraser Technology Reporter Share Save Wikipedia/Georges Biard/Frank Sun The actress Laetitia Dosch is one of those to benefit from an improved picture. Wikipedia is one of the most visited websites in the world but, by the admission of some of its own volunteer editors, it suffers from a persistent problem - terrible pictures, particularly of celebrities. It is so full of notable people with very o
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Wikipedia is one of the most valuable repositories of information ever created by humanity. Having your own Wikipedia page has become a kind of status symbol—proof that someone is important enough to enter the historical record. But, ironically, having your face in a Wikipedia page is often not flattering at all. In fact, Wikipedia portraits, often included in Wikipedia articles about celebrities, are so famously bad that there’s an Instagram page dedicated to them . Take the Wikipedia portrait
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Fresh from raising $200 million, Colossal Biosciences announced it has genetically engineered the Colossal Woolly Mouse, with a warm coat taken from the genes of the extinct woolly mammoth. Dallas and Boston-based Colossal Biosciences is has engineered key mammoth-like traits into the mice so they can adapt to life in cold climates. This means the company is making strides in the scientific breakthroughs toward “de-extinction,” or bringing back extinct species like the woolly mammoth, thylacine
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