23+ hour, 24+ 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…...

1+ day, 1+ hour 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…...

1+ day, 1+ hour 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…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (537+ words) Deep in the steaming runoff channels of Taiwan’s hot springs, a group of microbes has been quietly rewriting the rules of photosynthesis. These are the far-red light-utilizing cyanobacteria, or FRLCyano, organisms capable of extending oxygenic photosynthesis beyond the visible spectrum…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (614+ words) A team of geotechnical engineers has released an open-source software package that could upend how slopes, dams, and embankments are analyzed around the world....

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (72+ words) Benzene is one of the most insidious chemicals that ordinary people encounter every day. The International Agency for Research on Cancer classifies it as a Group 1 human carcinogen, meaning there is established evidence that it causes cancer in humans, with…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (55+ words) Researchers in South Africa have identified seven non-pathogenic fungal species that can transform agricultural waste into mycelium-based biomaterials with properties that rival, and in some respects exceed, those grown on costly commercial media. The study, published in Applied Microbiology and…...

1+ day, 5+ hour 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....

1+ day, 6+ hour 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....

1+ day, 6+ hour 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…...