Agriculture
Personalized diet optimization strengthens environmental and health benefits
A plate of food may look like a personal choice, but multiplied across millions of households, it becomes a force...
Scientists discover how plants sense when they’ve had enough nutrients
New York University researchers have identified a molecular switch that tells plants when they have absorbed enough nitrogen, a discovery...
By-products of insect farming as a novel sustainable biofertilizer for crops
Barragán Fonseca, K.Y., Mertens, D., Beschoren da Costa, P. et al. By-products of insect farming as a novel sustainable biofertilizer...
How bats tolerate viruses: Tulane study sheds light on one of nature’s biggest immune mysteries
image: Hannah Frank, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Tulane University School of Science and Engineering, led a study...
AI may help repair agriculture’s broken nitrogen cycle
Artificial intelligence could reshape how farms manage nitrogen by treating the nitrogen cycle as a single, connected system that links...
Gene Discovery May Speed Avocado Breeding, Cutting Years Off Timelines
Scientists have identified a genetic switch that determines whether avocado trees flower as A-type or B-type—an advance that could compress...
Stress-Response Gene Boosts Salvia miltiorrhiza Salt Tolerance and Medicinal Yield
Salt stress is rapidly eroding crop productivity worldwide, and medicinal plants are not spared. For Salvia miltiorrhiza, salinization threatens both...
Study Reveals How Plants Detect When to Grow or Pause
Plants build organs by coordinating “initiation” and “growth,” but how one signal can drive two opposite outcomes has been unclear....
AI Model Speeds Scientific Discovery in Soil Carbon Research
ITHACA, N.Y. — Cornell University researchers have introduced BINN (Biogeochemistry-Informed Neural Network), an AI model designed to speed up and...
Industrial Poultry Farming Speeds Spread of Major Foodborne Disease
A new genomic study from the Ineos Oxford Institute for antimicrobial research and the University of Oxford argues that industrial...
UTEP Researcher Develops Low-Cost Spray to Grow Tomatoes in Salty Soil
A low-dose leaf spray may help tomato plants thrive on farmland made unproductive by salt, according to a new study...
New insights to extend litchi shelf life
Litchi fruit can deteriorate within days after harvest, with rapid spoilage driven largely by fungal infection and peel browning. Traditional...
Combining phenology and temperature data to gauge overwintering wheat seedling health
Winter wheat’s status before overwintering strongly influences safe survival and eventual yield, making leaf age a crucial indicator of seedling...
KAUST Researchers Create More Precise Method for Engineering Plants
Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) report a technique that can insert large genetic cargo into...
Collagen Peptides Boost Bone Health in Female Runners, Study Finds
Collagen is a structural protein abundant in connective tissues, forming a major part of the organic matrix of bones. Because...
Fine-flavor native cacao matches commercial yields, study shows
A new multi-year field study from Peru’s Piura region challenges a long-held assumption in cocoa agriculture: native fine-flavor cacao may...
Unwritten social rules, not government oversight, sustain forests for the future
July 23, 2026 — For decades, “slash-and-burn” has served as a shorthand villain for rainforest loss, implying that swidden—or shifting...
Modeling Study Finds Ancient Language Diversity Was Far Greater Than Today’s
Human language diversity may have reached a remarkable peak long before written records, according to a new modeling study in...
Maize likely central to ancient Maya diets, study of bones and teeth suggests
Maize was probably more than just a staple for many Classic Maya communities in southeastern Petén, Guatemala, according to a...
Adaptive Grid-Scale Irrigation System Enhances Rice Yields Amid Climate Swings
A new study is turning climate uncertainty into a controllable variable for rice farming by using grid-scale, high-efficiency precision irrigation....