6+ hour, 28+ 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…...

8+ hour, 23+ min ago   (74+ words) Sub-Saharan Africa is running out of time and topsoil. A sweeping new meta-analysis synthesizing 317 peer-reviewed studies published between 2010 and 2025 has delivered the most comprehensive quantitative verdict yet on whether biologically derived inputs and engineered materials can rescue the region’s collapsing…...

8+ hour, 23+ min ago   (55+ words) Radar systems are the invisible guardians of modern aviation, shipping, and defense, but they operate in an increasingly hostile electromagnetic environment. Adversaries deliberately flood the spectrum with jamming signals designed to blind radars, confuse their receivers, and mask real targets....

8+ hour, 53+ min ago   (662+ words) Springer Nature has opened the nomination and selection process for its Editor of Distinction Awards 2026, an annual program designed to recognize the editors whose behind-the-scenes judgment keeps the scientific record trustworthy....

9+ hour, 14+ 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…...

10+ hour, 54+ min ago   (68+ words) A voice-controlled home robot that can navigate a house, switch appliances on and off, and hold a natural conversation in multiple languages has been built for less than 10,000 rupees — roughly one-fifth of the cost of comparable commercial systems. The robot,…...

11+ hour, 3+ min ago   (706+ words) Springer Nature has opened the 2026 cycle of its Editor of Distinction Awards, an annual program through which the publisher recognizes journal editors whose work has gone measurably beyond the ordinary demands of the role....

11+ hour, 15+ min ago   (55+ words) Online shoppers scrolling through a popular product on a major e-commerce platform may face thousands of customer reviews, each expressing a slightly different opinion about quality, price, delivery, durability, or customer service. Reading them all is impossible, and the automated…...

11+ hour, 47+ min ago   (704+ words) Every year, billions of tires reach the end of their service life, and engineers have long sought ways to turn this rubbery mountain of waste into something useful....

12+ hour, 1+ min ago   (594+ words) Africa’s electricity systems are entering a period in which the political risks attached to cross-border power trades are set to intensify over the near term, according to new research published in Nature Communications....