Neurogenesis in adult brains was widely thought to be a specialization of lower vertebrates related to life-long changes in body size (Birse et al., 1980). In mammals, it was accepted that neurogenesis is restricted to the olfactory epithelium, despite early reports of neurogenesis in the rodent hippocampus (Altman and Das, 1965; Kaplan and Hinds, 1977; Bayer et al., 1982). This dogma of rare a...

Barbados gooseberry is an unconventional food plant with great protein production potential for human consumption. A field experiment was conducted four types of soil covers and six replications to optimize the cultivation this plant. Treatments were composed covers, forage peanut, straw from sun hemp millet, white plastic cover, a treatment without cover hoeing. After transplanting, initial gr...

Megachile sculpturalis Smith 1853 is found for the first time on island of Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Spain). This that this exotic bee reported from an and southernmost record in Europe so far. Specimens were five distant locations throughout island, which points out current broad distribution species within suggests introduction M. may have happened earlier than 2020 went unnoticed. females ...

The announcement on 4 July 2012 of the discovery by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) of a new elementary particle was a landmark in the decades-long quest to understand how elementary particles acquire masses. In 1964, François Englert, Robert Brout, Peter Higgs, Gerry Guralnik, Carl Hagen and Tom Kibble had suggested a mechanism for accomplishing this essenti...