1+ min ago   (729+ words) A review article that promised to map the future of fish nutrigenomics has been struck from the scientific record, and the reasons behind its retraction are drawing attention far beyond the aquaculture community....

53+ min ago   (607+ words) Every year, millions of lithium-ion batteries reach the end of their lives, and most of the graphite inside them is quietly thrown away....

53+ min ago   (88+ words) Chemists at Shihezi University in China have shown that the shape of a catalyst can matter as much as its chemistry, reporting that hollow spherical alumina particles outperform conventional forms of the same material in a key industrial reaction. In…...

1+ hour, 18+ min ago   (625+ words) A sweeping national survey of Brazilian municipalities has exposed a deep disconnect between the world’s most ambitious early warning initiative and the local governments expected to carry it out....

1+ hour, 35+ min ago   (651+ words) The fight against one of the world’s most destructive crop diseases may be taking an unexpected turn beneath the soil surface....

2+ hour, 3+ min ago   (55+ words) Rice bran, the fibrous outer layer stripped away when brown rice is polished into white rice, is produced at a staggering scale of more than 63 million tons every year. Most of it is pressed for its oil, but what remains…...

2+ hour, 3+ min ago   (620+ words) Sulfamethoxazole has become one of the most frequently detected pharmaceutical compounds in rivers, lakes, and wastewater effluents around the world. As a widely prescribed antimicrobial, it is only partially metabolized by the human body, and residual quantities pass through conventional…...

2+ hour, 33+ min ago   (588+ words) Wheat rust diseases remain among the most destructive threats to global grain production, and the battle against them has long been slowed by a deceptively simple bottleneck: measuring how sick a plant actually is....

2+ hour, 41+ min ago   (607+ words) Cities are getting hotter, faster, and the people least responsible for the problem are often the most exposed to it. Dense development, heat-absorbing asphalt and rooftops, and the loss of vegetation combine to push urban summer temperatures several degrees above…...

2+ hour, 41+ min ago   (101+ words) In the steep, rain-washed valleys of the northwestern Himalayas, a quiet contest is underway beneath farmers’ feet. A new field study from the Rohru region of Himachal Pradesh, India, shows that the way land is used — whether under annual crops,…...