Silk Cotton Tree Seeds Reveal Delicate Balance Between Drying and Survival
A striking tree with brilliant yellow flowers and capsules stuffed with silky floss is finally getting the seed science attention its survival may depend on....
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Liver Cancer Gap Narrowing in the US as Sex and Racial Disparities Shrink Over Three Decades
Hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common form of primary liver cancer, has long been one of the most starkly unequal cancers in the United States. Men...
Training Workshop Boosts Research Administration Skills in Uganda
In the competitive world of global research funding, the scientists who win grants often stand on the shoulders of an overlooked profession: research administrators. These...
AI Predicts and Designs Bitter Peptides That Shape the Taste of Food
Bitterness is one of the most stubborn problems in modern food production. During the fermentation of kefir, the ripening of Parmesan and mountain cheese, or...
Seven-Year Camera-Trap Study Reveals Declining Threatened Mammals in Cambodian Mangroves
Deep in the mangrove forests of coastal Cambodia, some of Southeast Asia’s most threatened and least understood mammals are quietly disappearing from parts of a...
Smart Dashboard Puts AI-Rebuilt 3D City Building Data in a 300 KB Pocket
Every building in the European Union is supposed to have a digital energy identity by 2030. That is the deadline embedded in the recast Energy...
Scientists Stack Drought and Flood Tolerance Genes Into Beloved Rice Variety
Rice is the staple food for more than half of humanity, yet the rainfed lowlands where much of it grows are among the most unpredictable...
Four-Hour Teamwork Workshop Boosts Nursing Students’ Safety Communication Skills
Communication failures remain one of the most persistent and preventable threats to patient safety in modern healthcare. More than two decades after the landmark Institute...
Chemical Tag on Histones Governs Rice Immunity Against Viruses and Insect Pests
Rice feeds more people on Earth than almost any other crop, yet every growing season its fields are besieged by pathogens and insects that can...
Teaching AI to Think Before Flagging Hateful and Propagandistic Memes
Memes have become one of the most pervasive modes of communication on social media, blending images and text with humor, irony, and cultural references. While...
Industrial Waste Is Quietly Poisoning the World’s Most Productive Farmland
A bumper harvest is not always a safe harvest. That is the unsettling conclusion of a sweeping new review published in the journal Discover Soil,...
AI Reads Breast MRI to Predict Cancer Spread Before Surgery
A team of researchers in China has developed a machine learning tool that can predict, before a single incision is made, whether a woman’s breast...
How a chance discovery of 2,500 files revealed the birth of plastic surgery
A retired British rheumatologist who stumbled upon one of the largest surviving collections of First World War surgical records has given science a remarkably intimate...
Mitochondrial Genomes of Three Terminalia Species Reveal Surprising Structural Chaos and Evolutionary Clues
The humble club myrobalan, Terminalia chebula, has been a fixture of traditional medicine across Asia for centuries, but its genome has remained largely terra incognita....
Open-Source Solar-Powered Aeroponic Tower Grows Food Off the Grid for $720
Researchers at the Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste (CIBNOR) in Mexico have unveiled TOTEM, a fully open-source, solar-powered aeroponic system that grows crops vertically...
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