1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (808+ words) regression Bioengineer.org...

2+ hour, 10+ min ago   (56+ words) Water utilities live and die by the forecast. When a crew opens a valve or takes a pipe offline for inspection, the entire calculation rests on an assumption about how much water customers will draw that day. Get that number…...

2+ hour, 10+ min ago   (651+ words) Rice feeds more than half of humanity, yet the crop faces a future in which heat waves and drought increasingly arrive not as separate threats but as simultaneous ones....

4+ hour, 5+ min ago   (783+ words) Fluorinated waste streams have long been among the most stubborn environmental problems of the industrial age, and few sources illustrate the challenge better than aqueous film-forming foam, the firefighting agent that has contaminated soil and groundwater around airports, military bases…...

4+ hour, 23+ min ago   (587+ words) A team of researchers in China has sequenced the first complete mitochondrial genome of the jumping plant louse Bactericera gobica and, by combining it with nearly every other Triozidae mitogenome available, assembled the most comprehensive genetic dataset ever compiled for…...

4+ hour, 26+ min ago   (55+ words) Every year, the global citrus industry discards millions of tonnes of orange peels, a fragrant mountain of waste rich in pectin, essential oils and polyphenols. Most of this material ends up in landfills or low-value animal feed, even though its…...

4+ hour, 37+ min ago   (91+ words) Global agriculture is locked in a widening battle against pests, pathogens, and invasive species, and a sweeping new review argues that artificial intelligence has moved from a promising experiment to the central organizing technology of modern plant health management. Writing…...

5+ hour, 2+ min ago   (75+ words) Every year, humanity swallows roughly 35,000 metric tons of aspirin, and much of it does not simply vanish after doing its job. A sweeping new review published in Advances in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry argues that one of the world’s oldest…...

5+ hour, 4+ min ago   (669+ words) Cadmium is one of the most stubborn contaminants in the world’s farmland, and in China it has become a quiet but persistent threat to the food supply. The toxic heavy metal, which enters soils through mining, smelting, industrial emissions, and…...

5+ hour, 25+ min ago   (659+ words) On the reefs surrounding Sepanggar Island, off the coast of Sabah in Malaysian North Borneo, a bushy soft coral sways in the current, its eight-tentacled polyps filtering plankton from the water. To divers, the organism known as Litophyton is an…...