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An Undersea Cable Could Fill In the Gaps on Fiber-Optic Maps

Cars That Think

Take Africa in particular: The continent is less a component of the cable network than an extension of it. Even as Google and Meta set their sights on building entirely new lines that will drastically boost the continent’s capacity, those lines hug well-trodden, predictable routes. Meta’s plans are even more ambitious.

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International team sequences Eucalyptus genome; potential for improving biofuel and biomaterial production

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By tracing their evolutionary lineages and expression in woody tissues we defined a core set of genes as well as novel lignin-building candidates that are highly expressed in the development of xylem—the woody tissue that helps channel water throughout the plant—which serves to strengthen the tree. —Alexander Myburg.