That coffee you slurped this morning? It’s 600,000 years old.
Using genes from coffee plants around the world, researchers built a family tree for the world's most popular type of coffee, known to coffee lovers simply as “arabica.”
The coffee that picked you up this morning is 600,000 years old. Researchers have found that the world's most popular type of coffee, known as arabica, emerged hundreds of thousands of years ago through natural crossbreeding of two other coffee species. Using genes from coffee plants around the world, scientists built a coffee plant family tree to better understand where it came from and how to better protect it from disease and climate change. These wild coffee plants originated in Ethiopia but...
Outdoor celebrations at the world's largest man-made whitewater rivers are around the corner. River Jam kicks off on May 2nd.
TORONTO, April 03, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- March 2024 home sales reported through TRREB’s MLS® System were lower than the March 2023 result, due in part to the statutory holiday Good Friday falling in March this year versus April last year. Despite a better-supplied market compared to last year, there was enough competition between buyers to see a moderate increase in the average March home price compared to last year’s level. Greater Toronto Area (GTA) REALTORS® reported 6,560 sales through...
The UK government has announced the follow-up to last year’s AI Safety Summit will take place in South Korea in late May. The AI Seoul Summit, taking place on 21 and 22 May, will follow on from discussions between world leaders, tech companies and researchers started at the UK’s Bletchley Park AI Safety Summit held […]
House Republicans will bring their case against Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate this week, two months after impeaching the Homeland Security secretary. It will be the third time in five years that senators are sworn in as jurors in the court of impeachment. The Republican-controlled House impeached Mayorkas by a single vote margin on Feb. […]
A Firefighter Candidate Physical Ability Test Screening event is set for May 4 and 5 in the City of Jamestown. The Jamestown Fire Department, in collaboration with the City of Dunkirk Fire Department, Village of Fredonia Fire Department, and Chautauqua County Volunteer Fire Departments are holding the event on Saturday, May 4 and Sunday, May […]
Superman made his debut in Action Comics #1 in 1938, when he could only leap tall buildings and not fly over them. All 200,000 copies quickly sold out, and fewer than one hundred copies still exist, making it one of the most sought-after comics. — Read the rest
There is a good chance the temperature will hit 25° in southern parts of the Netherlands on Saturday, but the sun may be hard to see because of the clouds and Saharan sand that are expected to accompany the warm weather, forecasters say. A temperature of at least 20° is a certainty at the De Bilt weather station, where official weather records are set, but Limburg and Noord-Brabant will be even warmer because they are inland and in the south,
Chelsea may have to sell some of their big-name players to raise cash to meet profit and sustainability rules this summer, but defender Reece James, 24, wants to stay at Stamford Bridge. HITC) Real Madrid are not interested in signing goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga permanently and he will return to Stamford Bridge when his loan spell at the Bernabeu expires in June. Fabrizio Romano) Real would like to sign 18-year-old Lille centre-back Leny Yoro - who has also been linked with Chelsea, Manchester...