3+ hour, 13+ min ago   (55+ words) As heat waves grow longer and more punishing across the world’s tomato-growing regions, scientists have been racing to understand how this beloved crop copes when temperatures climb past the point of comfort. Now, a team of researchers at Yunnan Agricultural…...

3+ hour, 16+ min ago   (69+ words) A devastating bacterial pathogen that travels inside the bodies of tiny psyllid insects has long puzzled plant scientists: two closely related strains can infect the same tomato plant, yet one leaves it stunted while the other kills it outright. A…...

3+ hour, 16+ min ago   (618+ words) Rapeseed, one of the world’s most important oilseed crops and a cornerstone of global vegetable oil production, has long presented growers with a difficult trade-off. Planting more seeds per hectare can raise yield potential and make fields better suited to…...

5+ hour, 11+ min ago   (769+ words) Older adults undergoing cancer treatment face a hidden metabolic threat that has long slipped through the cracks of oncology care. Corticosteroids, which are woven into many chemotherapy regimens and supportive care protocols to suppress nausea, allergic reactions and immune-related toxicity,…...

6+ hour, 1+ min ago   (55+ words) Scientists have unveiled a powerful new method that allows researchers to measure intact protein forms, known as proteoforms, one molecule at a time and on a scale never before possible. The technique, called Iterative Mapping of proteoforms, was demonstrated on…...

6+ hour, 28+ min ago   (55+ words) Hyperspectral imaging has long promised a kind of digital omniscience: sensors that capture hundreds of narrow spectral bands, revealing the chemical fingerprints of crops, wetlands, minerals, and city streets in a single sweep. Yet the technology has always carried an…...

8+ hour, 2+ min ago   (687+ words) A scientific publishing drama has unfolded in the pages of Polymer Bulletin, where the Editor-in-Chief has issued an Editorial Expression of Concern over a 2019 study that promised an elegant solution to one of pharmaceutics’ most persistent challenges: delivering the blood…...

8+ hour, 31+ min ago   (90+ words) Rice feeds more than half of humanity, and the fine chemical details of each grain — its antioxidants, its vitamins, its stress compounds — are shaped as much by what happens in the soil as by the plant’s own genetics. A new…...

8+ hour, 48+ min ago   (672+ words) Synthetic dyes are among the most stubborn pollutants humanity releases into rivers and groundwater, and azo dyes—the largest class, defined by their characteristic nitrogen–nitrogen double bond—account for an estimated 60 to 70 percent of global colorant production....

9+ hour, 11+ min ago   (569+ words) A United States Geological Survey grant is continuing to open the doors of fisheries research stations across New York State to undergraduate students, offering them paid summer internships that combine original scientific research, professional networking and intensive field and laboratory…...