Neonicotinoid Seed Treatments Quietly Reshape Soil Fungal Communities Over Time
Neonicotinoid insecticides have long been scrutinized for their effects on bees, butterflies, and other pollinators, but a new study suggests ...
Scientists Set the Bar for What Counts as a Real Bone Organoid
Bone has long been the stubborn cousin of organoid science. While researchers have grown miniature guts, brains, kidneys and livers ...
Maize Meristem Genes Offer New Clues to the Molecular Roots of Hybrid Yield
Every ear of corn is a record of thousands of microscopic decisions. As the maize plant builds its female inflorescence, ...
Rare POLE P286R-Mutated Lung Cancer Shows Dramatic Response to Immunotherapy
In the world of lung cancer, few diagnoses are as rare or as poorly understood as hepatoid adenocarcinoma of the ...
A Routine Blood Test Number May Predict Five-Year Survival in Older Adults
Every complete blood count performed in a modern laboratory spits out dozens of numbers, and clinicians scan most of them ...
Germanium Doping Supercharges Platinum Catalysts for Water Cleanup
Chemists in China have found that a pinch of germanium, worked into an ordinary iron oxide support with a burst ...
Bare Plant Cells Offer a Fast Lane to Better Carrots and a First for Bitter Gourd
Researchers in India have reported a set of tissue culture advances that could quietly reshape how two staple vegetable crops ...
Graph AI Meets Learning Automata to Crush Recommender System Cold Starts
Every time a new user signs up for a streaming platform or opens a shopping app for the first time, ...
Wild Emmer Genes Could Help Breed Bigger, Better Durum Wheat
Durum wheat, the grain behind pasta, couscous, and countless other staples, just got a genetic boost from an unexpected ally: ...
Vitamin A Drug Plus Platelet Booster Rescues Cancer Patients From Dangerous Therapy-Induced Platelet Loss
One of the most stubborn complications of modern cancer treatment may have met its match. A new retrospective study from ...
Turmeric Meets Methotrexate in a Nanoparticle That Fights Arthritis and Spares the Liver
Rheumatoid arthritis affects millions of people worldwide, and for most of them the first drug on the prescription is methotrexate, ...
Ancient Viral Fossils Decoded: New Tool untangles the Human Genome’s Endogenous Retroviruses
Buried within every human cell lies a molecular archive of ancient infections. Roughly eight percent of the human genome consists ...
Digital Twin of Road Surfaces Rebuilds Asphalt Texture Particle by Particle
Every road surface tells a story in millimeters. The tiny peaks and valleys that make asphalt feel rough to a ...
How Seeds Cheat Time: Redox Control, DNA Repair, and Protective Proteins Hold the Key to Longevity
Some seeds refuse to die. Date palm seeds recovered from Herod’s Palace near Jerusalem, roughly 2,000 years old, have been ...
MRI Study Splits Bone Growth Stage Into Three Substages to Sharpen Forensic Age Tests
When courts must decide whether a young person without valid documents is a minor or an adult, forensic experts turn ...
Genomics Study Decodes the Striped Camouflage of Wild Boar Piglets
Few sights in the animal kingdom are as instantly recognizable as the striped coat of a wild boar piglet. Those ...
Robotic Spine That Bends Like a Cheetah’s Could Supercharge Quadruped Robots
When a cheetah sprints across the savanna, its spine flexes and extends with every stride, storing and releasing elastic energy ...
Health Literacy Shapes Quality of Life for Lung Cancer Caregivers, Study Finds
Caring for an older adult with lung cancer is one of the most demanding roles in modern medicine, and a ...
How Drying Method Reshapes the Chemistry of Water Lily Petals, From Aroma to Anticancer Clues
The water lily is one of those rare plants that manages to be beautiful, delicious, and potentially medicinal all at ...
Scientists Bake Silver Carp Into Bread and Create a Protein-Powered Loaf
In a bakery in Bangladesh, something unusual is rising in the oven. Researchers reporting in the open-access journal Heliyon have ...