6+ hour, 4+ min ago   (485+ words) A sprawling review of the meadow rue genus, Thalictrum, has catalogued a striking trove of biologically active plant chemicals across Africa and Asia, while simultaneously exposing how little of the evidence stands up to rigorous scientific scrutiny....

6+ hour, 59+ min ago   (56+ words) A team of researchers in Japan has coaxed two bacteria working together to make one of the food industry’s most important amino acids directly from nitrogen gas, a feat that could loosen the grip of the energy-hungry Haber–Bosch process…...

12+ hour, 10+ min ago   (55+ words) Scientists in Indonesia have combined cutting-edge analytical chemistry with an urgent global problem in a study of a humble tropical shrub that villagers have relied on for generations. The plant, Rhodomyrtus tomentosa, known widely as rose myrtle, is a pink-flowered…...

15+ hour, 12+ min ago   (602+ words) In a finding that could reshape how scientists monitor the internal clocks of plants, researchers in Japan have demonstrated that detached fruits give off a measurable rhythm in the electrical charge of the air around them — a rhythm that rises…...

15+ hour, 55+ min ago   (55+ words) Robots and autonomous agents are increasingly expected to perceive the world, reason about what they see, and act on that understanding in real time, all while relying on wireless networks that are crowded, noisy, and far from perfect. A new…...

17+ hour, 52+ min ago   (94+ words) Insects navigate their world largely through smell, relying on an intricate array of chemosensory proteins to detect everything from host plant volatiles to mating signals. Among these molecular sentinels are ionotropic receptors, or IRs, a family of receptors descended from…...

18+ hour, 2+ min ago   (680+ words) Every morning before an Australian Rules football training session, players at one elite club file into the gym and pull against a hook or squeeze two padded plates with everything they have. Those few seconds of maximal effort, recorded by…...

18+ hour, 37+ min ago   (55+ words) Neuroscientists have unveiled a deep learning system that can automatically trace and quantify the tangled web of nerve fibers visible in one of the oldest and most stubborn stains in pathology: the Bielschowsky silver impregnation. The tool, called BasNet, was…...

19+ hour, 9+ min ago   (57+ words) Recommendation systems quietly shape much of modern digital life, deciding which films appear on a streaming homepage, which restaurants surface in a navigation app, and which products rise to the top of an online marketplace. Their power rests on a…...

19+ hour, 50+ min ago   (70+ words) Raw meat-based diets, often marketed under labels such as BARF or biologically appropriate raw food, have moved from a fringe feeding philosophy to a mainstream segment of the pet food market. A new critical narrative review published in Discover Animals…...