With six sets of chromosomes, the hexaploid cultivated oat (Avena sativa L.) has a complex evolutionary history. In this week’s issue, Nick Sirijovski and his colleagues present a high-quality reference genome for A. sativa alongside those for its close relatives the diploid Avena longiglumis and the tetraploid Avena insularis. By examining the three genomes, the researchers were able to trace genomic reorganizations in the crop’s evolution. They were also able to map the genes for important agronomic traits, highlighting gene families linked to human health and nutrition. With health and sustainability high on global agendas, the team hopes this new resource will bolster genomics-assisted breeding and trait studies to address these challenges and more.
Category Archives: Magazines
Cover Preview: Romeing Magazine – June 2022
Eat, drink, mix & mingle. Mama Rooftop is the perfect refuge for those looking for a unique experience and evening in Rome.
Previews: The New Yorker Magazine – June 6, 2022
The Magazine – June 6, 2022
Eric Drooker’s “Uvalde, May 24, 2022” – Gun violence and the American way of life.
By Françoise Mouly, Art by Eric Drooker
- On May 24th, an eighteen-year-old gunman shot and killed nineteen children and two adults at Robb Elementary School, in Uvalde, Texas. The horrific spree came just ten days after thirteen people were shot—ten of them killed—at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, by a self-professed white supremacist. In the past two months, Americans have also been confronted with mass shootings at a church, a flea market, and inside a subway car during the morning rush-hour. The magazine’s cover for the June 6, 2022, issue, is by the artist Eric Drooker, who echoes the weary rage of many when he says, “I hastily scrawled this image, wondering, Why are Americans so infatuated with guns in the first place? What are they so afraid of?”
International Art: Apollo Magazine – June 2022 Issue
• Off the grid: a messier side to Mondrian
• Picasso’s obsession with El Greco
• An interview with Isaac Julien
• How Gio Ponti jazzed up Padua
Plus: William Kent’s heavenly ceilings, New York’s terrible new skyscrapers, the market’s obsession with young painters, the artists who channel their inner child, and reviews of Walter Sickert, Raphael and Winslow Homer
Cover Preview: Barron’s Magazine – May 30, 2022
Barron’s Magazine – May 30, 2022
Crypto’s Future Is Nothing Like You Imagined. Here’s What Lies Ahead.
Panelists at our inaugural cryptocurrency roundtable offer bold predictions for Bitcoin, stablecoins, blockchain, and more.
Preview: The Florentine Magazine – June 2022
Florentine Magazine, June 2022 – Sighing over Florence
There’s a garden on a hillside overlooking Florence where it feels like you’ve struck the pot of gold—and all the colours of the rainbow. This art park is the life’s work of Alice Esclapon de Villeneuve, who started to expand the family’s plot of land just off viale Michelangelo on the occasion of her daughter’s birth over 20 years ago. Finding the art park is something of a treasure hunt, however, hence the enlistment of bilingual guide Elena Fulceri for tours in Italian or English.
Cover Preview: Nature Magazine – May 26, 2022
Fluid dynamics
Cilia are characterized by slender, threadlike projections, which are used by biological organisms to control fluid flows at the microscale. Attempts to mimic these structures and engineer cilia-like systems to have broad applications have proved problematic. In this week’s issue, Wei Wang and colleagues present electronically controlled artificial cilia that can be used to create flow patterns in near-surface liquids. The researchers use surface-mounted platinum strips, each about 50 micrometres long, 5 micrometres wide and 10 nanometres thick, and capped on one side with titanium. Applying an oscillating potential with an amplitude of around 1 volt to the cilia drives ions on to and off of the exposed platinum surface. These ions create asymmetric forces that generate a beating pattern that can be used to pump surface liquids in various flow geometries. The cover shows an artist’s impression of the artificial cilia in action.
Preview: New Scientist Magazine – May 28, 2022
Preview: Times Literary Supplement – May 27, 2022
Times Literary Supplement, May 27, 2022 – @TheTLS, featuring @NshShulman on the Queen; @nclarke14 on Melvyn Bragg; @richardlea on nuclear power; Claire Lowdon on Elif Batuman; @RohanMaitzen on Rosalind Brackenbury; @rinireg on abortion – and more.
Preview: Smithsonian Magazine – June 2022
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Flesh, Blood & Bronze
One sculptor and his team of artists take on the epic project of conveying the century-old conflict through a massive bronze installation
PHOTOGRAPHS BY VINCENT TULLO
Not Far From Kyiv
To residents of Southern California with ties to the Eastern European nations, the conflict feels close to home
PHOTOGRAPHS AND INTERVIEWS BY STELLA KALININA
In a Tight Spot
Conservationists are racing to rescue a delightful coastal animal from rising seas
PHOTOGRAPH BY LAUREN OWENS LAMBERT
TEXT BY MADDIE BENDER
The Real Pinocchio
Forget what you know from the cartoon. The 19th-century story, now in a new translation, was a rallying cry for universal education and Italian nationhood
BY PERRI KLASS
PHOTOGRAPHS BY SIMONA GHIZZONI
Escape from the Gilded Cage
Even if her husband was a murderer, a woman in a bad marriage once had few options. Unless she fled to South Dakota
BY APRIL WHITE
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Discussion
Ethical Collecting
For more than a century, museum artifacts were acquired in ways we no longer find acceptable. How can we repair the damage?
Popular Wisdom
The world’s largest book repository has expanded far beyond its original scope to include sound recordings and digitized collections
Van Gogh in the Grove
A new exhibition of lesser known works during a pivotal time sheds light on his budding genius
Role of a Lifetime
An unpublished memoir reveals how the world’s most famous child actress became a star of the environmental movement
A Brief History of Red Drink
The obscure roots of a centuries-old beverage that’s now a Juneteenth fixture
The Next Clone
Forget Dolly the Sheep. The birth of a mouse named Cumulina 25 years ago launched a genetic revolution
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