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Deep beneath the fields of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East, seeds of the root-parasitic plant Phelipanche ramosa lie...

Every day, thousands of Swedes pick up the phone and call the national healthcare guide, describing fevers, coughs, rashes, and...

Deep learning models can reliably detect the telltale leaf damage caused by grapevine leafhoppers under real field conditions, according to...

Every year, thousands of children survive cancer, but for many of them the battle does not end when the tumors...

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Wheat powdery mildew, caused by the obligate biotrophic fungus Blumeria graminis f. sp. tritici (Bgt), remains one of the most...

For decades, public health researchers have pinned considerable hope on the school cafeteria as a lever for improving childhood nutrition....

A towering evergreen that has shaded South Asian healing traditions for centuries is now at the center of one of...

When researchers want to understand children’s health, the most radical thing they can do may be the simplest: ask children...

Imagine a future in which the very concrete beneath your feet and around your windows does more than hold a...

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For decades, scientists have known that poverty, low education and economic insecurity leave fingerprints on the human body. What has...

In a finding that could reshape how we grow functional foods indoors, researchers have shown that near-infrared radiation — light...

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Every forecaster faces a seductive trap. When dozens of competing models are lined up against a benchmark, at least one...

Every year, wheat breeders make thousands of decisions about which plants live to see another season and which are discarded....

Cancer chemotherapy has long been a blunt instrument. Drugs that can kill tumor cells also ravage healthy tissue, and the...

Hand osteoarthritis is one of the most common joint diseases on the planet, affecting roughly half of all women and...

Organic electronics promise flexible displays, low-cost sensors and printable circuits, but their performance still hinges on a stubbornly difficult problem:...