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  1. Plants

    Small difference factored big in rice domestication

    A change in a single letter of a rice plant's genetic code gave it the ability to hold onto grains until harvest.

    By Christen Brownlee
  2. Tech

    Viral building blocks

    Proteins taken from a spherical virus and combined with pieces of DNA can form tubular nanostructures, researchers report.

    By Aimee Cunningham

  3. 19655

    I am rather surprised at all the attention the find mentioned in this article is getting. Some would think that these mammals caused the downfall of the dinosaurs, but the fossil record suggests a very different scenario. There is no evidence of possum-to-coyote–size mammals for the 70-odd million years that the dinosaurs ruled the planet.