Scientists in Australia have developed a robust and reproducible genetic transformation system for Brassica carinata, an ancient East African oilseed that is rapidly emerging as...
Micronutrients such as iron, zinc, copper, manganese and boron have long been treated by agricultural science as little more than yield-boosters — elements needed in...
Autoimmune encephalitis is one of the most perplexing conditions in modern neurology, a disease in which the body’s own immune system turns against the brain,...
The master metabolic conductor PGC-1α, long recognized as the central transcriptional coactivator governing cellular energy metabolism across heart, skeletal muscle, liver, and brown adipose tissue,...
Deep in the brainstem, a tiny, pigment-darkened cluster of neurons called the locus coeruleus acts as the brain’s principal source of norepinephrine, a chemical messenger...
Beneath the ploughed surface of the world’s croplands lies a carbon reservoir that climate scientists have long overlooked. While decades of research have focused on...
Hydrogen has long been touted as a clean fuel of the future, but producing it at industrial scale still depends heavily on electricity, catalysts, and...
In a development that could reshape how scientists manufacture some of the most versatile materials in modern technology, an international team of researchers has published...
In a finding that could reshape how engineers think about smart materials, a team of researchers in Mexico and France has demonstrated that a classic...
High-dimensional data have become the defining challenge of modern machine learning, and a team of researchers in China has now unveiled a new evolutionary algorithm...
Knowledge graphs have quietly become the connective tissue of the modern web. They sit behind search engines that anticipate your questions, recommendation systems that seem...
Chinese, often ranked among the most difficult languages for second-language learners, presents a grammar landscape that resists the tidy categories familiar from European languages. There...
The days immediately following a hospital stay are among the most dangerous in the life of a patient with metastatic cancer. The transition from intensive...
Every year, drowsy driving claims hundreds of thousands of lives worldwide, making fatigue one of the most common contributors to serious traffic injuries. The insidious...
When words prove too heavy or too tangled to say aloud, melody can carry them instead. A new analysis of songs written by adults living...
