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Seesaw Immune Module Explains Why Rice Lost a Powerful Disease Resistance Gene
Rice feeds more than half of humanity, yet its two great subspecies have taken strikingly different evolutionary paths when it...
AI Teaches Stereo Cameras to See Depth Without Real-World Labels
Depth perception is one of the most fundamental challenges in computer vision, and for robots, autonomous vehicles, and augmented reality...
Sorghum’s Rare Antioxidants Offer New Hope for Functional Foods
Sorghum has long lived in the shadow of wheat, rice, maize, and barley, ranking fifth among the world’s cereals with...
Therapeutic Vaccines for Ovarian Cancer Show Promise but Remain Stuck in Early-Stage Trials
Ovarian cancer remains one of the most lethal gynecologic malignancies, and for decades researchers have pursued an idea that sounds...
Argentine Herb Oils Outperform Synthetic Antioxidant BHT in Preserving Sunflower Oil
Two aromatic plants native to central Argentina, known locally as poleo and peperina, are quietly emerging as serious contenders in...
Engineered Bacteria Turn Nitrogen Gas Into L-Glutamate in Fermenter Breakthrough
A team of researchers in Japan has coaxed two bacteria working together to make one of the food industry’s most...
AI Super-Resolution and Transformers Push Hyperspectral Image Classification Past 99 Percent
Hyperspectral imaging has long promised a kind of digital omniscience: sensors that capture hundreds of narrow spectral bands, revealing the...
Sri Lanka’s Duckweeds Pack Protein, Omega-3s and Potent Antidiabetic Power, Study Finds
A family of tiny, free-floating aquatic plants that most people walk past without a second glance is emerging as one...
Exercise Could Help Cancer Patients on Immunotherapy, But Nobody Is Telling Them How
Immunotherapy has transformed the outlook for people with advanced bladder and kidney cancer. Drugs known as immune checkpoint inhibitors, which...
Eating Disorders Are Common in Prisons, Yet Care Guidelines Are Missing
People living in prisons, jails and forensic mental health facilities carry some of the heaviest burdens of psychological distress in...
Borneo Soft Coral Reveals Antioxidant Chemistry in Deep Metabolite Scan
On the reefs surrounding Sepanggar Island, off the coast of Sabah in Malaysian North Borneo, a bushy soft coral sways...
Auditable certificates measure client update value in personalized federated learning
Federated learning has become one of the most consequential architectures in modern machine learning, allowing hospitals, banks, factories and smartphone...
Sage-Made Zinc and Iron Nanoparticles Help Basil Survive Drought
Drought is one of the most punishing stresses a plant can face, and few crops feel that pressure more acutely...
Blood Metabolites and AI Reach Over 80% Accuracy in Supporting Autism Diagnosis
A blood test that could help clinicians diagnose autism spectrum disorder in toddlers has moved a significant step closer to...
Astragalus Root Polysaccharide Reshapes Goat Milk Quality in Late Lactation, Multi-Omics Study Shows
Goat milk has quietly become one of the most valued functional foods in the global dairy market, prized for its...
BenchHub Turns Computational Biology Benchmarking Into a Living, Community-Driven Ecosystem
Every day, computational biologists release new methods for analyzing genomes, single cells, microbiomes and molecular signatures, and every day researchers...
New AI framework teaches video models to reason about cause and effect, not just correlations
Artificial intelligence systems that watch video have become remarkably good at recognizing what they see, but they remain surprisingly poor...
Plant Sterol Bigel Rebuilds Fat Crystals for Healthier Cookies
Butter cookies may be about to get a structural makeover that could reshape how the baking industry thinks about healthier...
Simple Salt Trick Delivers Gram-Scale Crystals of Elusive Metallic 1T′-Phase Materials
Some of the most exciting materials in modern physics and chemistry are also among the most stubborn to make. Transition...
Cicada Genomes Decoded to Safeguard a Traditional Medicine’s Future
In the world of traditional Chinese medicine, few raw materials are as quietly ubiquitous as Cicadae Periostracum, the papery slough...