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Chinese DNA gives life to an American tree
Plenty Magazine - New York,NY,USA
Prosaically known as chestnut blight, C. parasitica is a fungus that arrived on Chinese chestnut trees imported into New York City between 1900 and 1908. ...

Scientists probe new class of superconductor 

A third major group, whose materials work at relatively high temperatures, may lead to more efficient electric motors.

 

 

Self-published author takes competition to bestseller rivals
May 6: An almost unknown, self-published author is among those in competition for the €35,000 Frank O'Connor international short story prize

 

 

The new squirearchy: the super-rich restore great estates

There is a growing trend for the super-rich: buying up land to recreate England's old country manors

 

 

Capturing the bear essentials of Paddington

His illustrators on the bear in the hat: 'I felt a real rapport with this brainless innocent who always came out on top'