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Genetic transformation of forage crops: barriers, evidence, and new strategies
Forage crops—the grasses and legumes that underpin the world’s meat and dairy industries—have long been treated as a single, uniform...
Dual-emission carbon dot films enable smartphone detection of nitrite and Fe3+ in water
A team of researchers in Vietnam has developed a flexible, glowing film that can detect two of the most common...
Fullerene derivatives ease brain inflammation after cranial radiation therapy
Radiation therapy saves countless lives in the fight against brain tumors, but it extracts a devastating price from the very...
Metal-ligand orbital hybridization boosts efficient, long-lasting TADF OLEDs
For more than a decade, display engineers have chased a class of glowing molecules that could finally make next-generation OLED...
Residents near Tanzanian gold mine show limited awareness of radioactive materials
Deep beneath the farmlands of northwestern Tanzania, radiation has always been there. It comes from uranium, thorium, and potassium locked...
A Discrete Multimode Model for Nonlinear Vibrations of Functionally Graded Stepped Beams
Functionally graded materials have long promised engineers the ability to tailor stiffness, inertia, and thermal resistance within a single structural...
Ethiopian crop production falls short of healthy diet requirements
Ethiopia grows far more grain than its population needs for a healthy diet, yet produces only a fraction of the...
Microneedle-based combination therapies for hair regeneration: technology, mechanism, translation
Hair loss affects nearly half of all men and up to a third of women worldwide, yet the treatments available...
Microplastics in Food Systems: Sources, Exposure Routes, and Gut Health Impacts
Microplastics have quietly become one of the most pervasive contaminants in the modern food supply, and a new comprehensive review...
Machine learning optimizes Dendrobium officinale fermentation for enhanced antioxidant activity
In a development that could reshape how the food and wellness industries harness ancient medicinal plants, researchers in China have...
Cloud AI platform links rice grain traits to genes for crop improvement
Rice feeds more than half of humanity, and the shape, size, and colour of its grains sit at the heart...
New deep learning model screens autism from facial features during attention tasks
Facial morphology-based autism screening during attention assessment tasks: A dual-branch deep learning approach Researchers have unveiled a dual-branch deep learning...
WaveLab Studio: Lightweight software for interactive 2D wave propagation experiments
Researchers have unveiled a lightweight, open-source software tool designed to make two-dimensional wave-propagation experiments accessible to students, educators, and researchers...
Fisher-guided personalized federated learning using efficient packed homomorphic aggregation
Artificial intelligence systems are increasingly trained on data that never leaves the devices where it is created—hospital servers holding sensitive...
New multi-scale cross-modal method improves water surface scene registration
Registering images captured by different sensors—say, a visible-light camera and a thermal infrared imager—has long been one of the most...
FastGTDLP: New algorithm tackles small-exponent discrete logarithms in group GT
Cryptographers in China have unveiled a new algorithm that dramatically accelerates one of the most persistent bottlenecks in modern encryption,...
Improved differential evolution using fitness-guided mutation and diversity enhancement
Differential evolution has long been one of the workhorses of modern optimization. Since its introduction by Rainer Storn and Kenneth...
Predictors of Loan Success and Default in Chinese Microfinance Portfolio
In the eastern Chinese city of Ningbo, a privately run microfinance lender spent five years quietly approving and rejecting thousands...
Steering airships: a review of classical and AI control methods
Lighter-than-air vehicles, the airships and blimps that once seemed destined for museums and nostalgic photographs, are quietly staging a comeback....
Federated Intrusion Detection Framework for 5G Networks Aligned with ETSI NFV MANO
Researchers at the University of Portsmouth have unveiled V5GIDS, an artificial intelligence-driven intrusion detection framework designed to work natively inside...