29+ min ago   (580+ words) Plant height may seem like a simple trait, but in soybean it sits at the heart of one of agriculture’s most consequential trade-offs. Tall plants can shade weeds and capture light, yet they topple in wind and rain, complicate harvest,…...

42+ min ago   (634+ words) For years, immunologists have regarded neutrophils as short-lived first responders, cells that surge into infected or injured tissue, unleash a burst of antimicrobial chemicals, and then die within hours....

42+ min ago   (614+ words) Chemists have long relied on a single trick to make the inert atoms of the p-block of the periodic table behave like reactive metals: bend them out of shape....

42+ min ago   (623+ words) Chemists at Wuhan University have unveiled a nickel-catalysed reaction that can build an impressive range of alkene architectures from the same simple set of starting materials, simply by changing the ligand on the catalyst....

1+ hour, 21+ 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, 32+ min ago   (512+ words) Researchers have introduced DartUniFrac, a new software tool designed to carry out UniFrac-based microbiome comparisons at a scale that was previously impractical....

1+ hour, 55+ min ago   (350+ words) Scientists at Uppsala University have taken a significant step toward a long-sought goal in industrial biotechnology: using sunlight and carbon dioxide to feed engineered microbes that churn out valuable chemicals. In a study published in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Stamatina…...

1+ hour, 55+ min ago   (506+ words) A single-atom substitution could transform one of the most exciting families of two-dimensional materials from a laboratory curiosity into a working engine for solar fuels....

2+ hour, 4+ 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, 23+ min ago   (55+ words) Deep within the human genome lies an ancient threat. Long interspersed elements-1, known as LINE-1 or L1, are the only autonomous transposable elements still active in our DNA, making up roughly 17 percent of the genome. When these genetic parasites leap to…...