#How a Quebec rock-collector amassed a multi-million-dollar ‘national treasure’

#How a Quebec rock-collector amassed a multi-million-dollar ‘national treasure’

“#How a Quebec rock-collector amassed a multi-million-dollar ‘national treasure’” Samples from Haineault’s collection, including (clockwise from top left) analcime on microcline; an ice-cream scoop of leifite with serandite; catapleiite and natrolite; the slug-green-coloured sphalerite and albite; watermelon look-alike serandite and catapleiite; and the blue beauty fluorcarletonite (Courtesy of Gilles Haineault/Canadian Museum of Nature) It was…

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#Summer favorite bitter gourd genome shows unusual domestication, insight into evolution

“#Summer favorite bitter gourd genome shows unusual domestication, insight into evolution” The complete genome sequence of the bitter gourd and 11 chromosome maps revealed in this study. Credit: Hideo Matsumura, Gene Research Center, Shinshu University The bitter gourd (Momordica charantia) is a summer vegetable that graces the tables of many homes and restaurants in Asia….

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