The inaugural lecture originated in medieval times, when universities operated like guilds of scholars. The introductory lecture in those days was a declaration of intellectual mastery to show that ...

Collaboration between the UCO's Agronomy and Genetics departments was key to sequencing the genome of this pathogen, which is responsible for losses of up to €50 million per year. Cercospora leaf spot ...

In a time when we live ever more deeply embedded in the digital ecosystem, Harvard University’s seminar called “Tree” should be a required course for all. Its lessons are not delivered in a lecture ...

The screen displays the inscription ''NotebookLM'' during a meeting between Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk at Google for Startups in Warsaw, Poland, on ...

Working with South African daisies, Colombian magnolias and Philippine coffee trees, botanists the world over are discovering the secrets to bringing extremely rare and threatened plants back from the ...

As quantum hardware advances toward enabling error-corrected quantum circuits in the near future, the absence of an efficient polynomial-time decoding algorithm for logical circuits presents a ...

“I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing / All alone stood it, and the moss hung down from the branches.” —Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1860-61 More than 150 years after Whitman wrote those lines, the ...

Correspondent photo / John Patrick Gatta Roslyn Torella lectures the Mahoning County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society last Wednesday at St. Charles Borromeo Roman Catholic Parish on ...

Generative artificial intelligence has entered a new frontier of fundamental biology: helping scientists to better understand proteins, the workhorses of living cells. Scientists have developed two ...

KNOXVILLE — Highly valued economically, ecologically and culturally, the white oak (Quercus alba) is a keystone forest species and is one of the most abundant trees across much of eastern North ...