Digital precision agriculture tool helps Nepalese rice farmers breakthrough yield barriers
Credit: © Amgain Lal Prasad Rice farmers in Nepal are chronically falling short of their potential productivity. Poor rice yields ...
Did Earth’s early rise in oxygen help multicellular life evolve?
A new study is taking the air out of a hypothesis linking early Earth's oxygenation to larger, more complex organisms. ...
Rising energy demand for cooling
Keeping it cool despite climate changeCredit: Chromatograph @ unsplash Due to climate change, the average global temperature will rise in ...
SMU professor receives NASA funding to study Active Galactic Nuclei
Credit: SMU (Southern Methodist University) DALLAS (SMU) - Krista Lynne Smith, an assistant professor of physics at SMU, has received ...
Saving the eastern monarch butterfly: SFU research
Researchers analyzed current conservation strategies and recommended changes to how and where declining milkweed (an essential food source for butterfly ...
Adding antibodies to enhance photodynamic therapy for viral and bacterial disease
Advancing PDT as a rapid response to pandemicsCredit: Vladislav Yakovlev/Texas A&M University WASHINGTON, May 18, 2021 -- The COVID-19 pandemic ...
COVID-19 testing method gives results within one second
Superfast, portable COVID-19 testing method detects the virus much faster than currently available methodsCredit: Minghan Xian, Hao Luo, Xinyi Xia, ...
WVU researchers find disparities for COVID-19 testing and positivity rates
Issues were identified in Black communities and in areas with food insecurity in West VirginiaCredit: WVU Photo In studying COVID-19 ...
PNNL invention reduces risk of battery explosions
Rapid removal of gases during battery fires is critical to explosion preventionCredit: (Photo by Allan Tuan | Pacific Northwest National ...
Ancient horse DNA reveals gene flow between Eurasian and North American horses
New findings show connections between the ancient horse populations in North America, where horses evolved, and Eurasia, where they were ...
Mapping the Midwest’s soil topography
Credit: Iowa State University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences AMES, Iowa - Climate change and soil erosion feed into ...
Scientists discover five new species of listeria, improving food safety
Credit: Catharine Carlin, Cornell University ITHACA, N.Y. - While examining the prevalence of listeria in agricultural soil throughout the U.S., ...
Bipolar order: A straightforward technique to have more control over organic thin films
Credit: Tokyo Tech Modern and emerging applications in various fields have found creative uses for organic thin films (TFs); some ...
New model for infectious disease could better predict future pandemics
Potential benefits to health across species, communities and environments are enormousCredit: James Hassell/Smithsonian In the midst of a devastating global ...
Grazing management of salt marshes contributes to coastal defense
Credit: University of Groningen Combining natural salt marsh habitats with conventional dikes may provide a more sustainable and cost-effective alternative ...
NSF EPSCoR grant will advance understanding of neutrinos and support new faculty
Credit: Benjamin Eberhardt, IceCubeNSF. LAWRENCE -- Neutrinos are almost intangible subatomic particles that hardly interact with matter in the universe. ...
Nanofiber filter captures almost 100% of coronavirus aerosols
The filter could help curb airborne spread of COVID-19 virusCredit: Yun Shen A filter made from polymer nanothreads blew three ...
New peanut has a wild past and domesticated present
Researchers dig into the past to create new varieties to improve productionCredit: Andrew Davis Tucker/UGA The wild relatives of modern ...
Wake steering potentially boosts energy production at US wind plants
U.S. wind plants achieve a predicted annual production gain of 0.8% by using wake steeringCredit: Eric Simley, NREL WASHINGTON, May ...
Iran’s groundwater depletion is reaching crisis levels, warn Concordia researchers
Ali Nazemi and Samaneh Ashraf say nations like Canada must learn from the country's calamitous overexploitation of its aquifersCredit: Concordia ...