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… Sustainable Berkeley Lab maintains a  calendar of Earth Month events throughout April. This year, a new group at the Lab, the Sustainable Garden Club, hosted a DIY … to pollinators like bees and flies.  On April 19, this group hosted a DIY Succulent workshop and a plant sale. …

… 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  Zygnematophyceae , … how early plants transitioned from water to land. Key gene groups involved in stress tolerance and multicellularity … and compared them with those found in modern plants. They discovered that ancient algae already possessed genetic …

… By studying the structure and function of a cyanobacterial protein, researchers have new insights … provide a list of machine parts, and an idea of their groupings.  One pivotal effort along these lines came from … and function of this protein. Starting from a gene, they’ve discovered an interesting zinc-mirror heme site that plays a …

… and high-throughput methods to link uncultivated viruses to their host. With these new methods, she hopes to expand our understanding of the roles that viruses play in their ecosystems, particularly in freshwater …