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Wheat, one of the world’s most important staple crops, has just been handed a powerful new weapon in the fight against weeds. A research team...

In a development that could reshape how plant scientists peer inside crops, a research team led by Weizhen Liu of Wuhan University of Technology has...

Cowpea, one of the most important grain legumes grown across the dry savannas of sub-Saharan Africa, has long been at the mercy of an unpredictable...

Parkinson’s disease has long been a diagnosis of observation and inference. Doctors watched for tremor, rigidity, and slowness of movement, and only at autopsy could...

When a tunnel catches fire, temperatures inside the concrete lining can soar to 800 or 900 degrees Celsius, and the emergency response almost always involves...

Scientists in Brazil have demonstrated that a combination of three non-destructive imaging techniques, visible-spectrum (RGB) photography, X-ray radiography, and three-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), can...

In a finding that could reshape how medicinal chemists produce antioxidant compounds, a team of Italian researchers has developed a rapid, solvent-minimized ball-milling method for...

Scientists have unveiled a computational design for a terahertz metasurface biosensor that combines five distinct materials—graphene, MXene, tungsten disulfide, gold, and copper—into a single multilayer...

The ocean has quietly absorbed billions of tons of humanity’s carbon emissions over the past two centuries, but scientists and companies racing to supercharge that...

Beneath every step we take, soils hold one of the planet’s largest reservoirs of carbon, a vast, slow-moving bank of organic matter that quietly regulates...

For more than four decades, pathologists have glimpsed something unsettling under the microscope in the earliest stages of certain cancers: cells with nuclei far larger...

Twenty-five years after the September 11 terrorist attacks, researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have uncovered evidence that the environments in...

Scientists have uncovered a previously unrecognized mechanism that helps explain why a small but devastating fraction of patients who take bisphosphonate medications develop osteonecrosis of...

In an era when childhood diseases are increasingly shaped by forces far beyond the clinic, the editors of Pediatric Research have issued a sweeping call...

Scientists have uncovered a previously unrecognized mechanism that drives the malignant progression of gastrointestinal stromal tumors, one of the most common sarcomas of the digestive...