1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (84+ words) When forensic investigators recover human remains, one of the first and most fundamental questions they must answer is simple to ask but often difficult to answer: was this person male or female? A new study published in the International Journal…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (75+ words) A new comprehensive review published in the Journal of Nanoparticle Research surveys one of the most quietly promising corners of nanomedicine: carbon dots, nanoscale specks of carbon that are showing remarkable ability to kill bacteria and dismantle the sticky biofilms…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (521+ words) Bacteria are famous for forming patterns, from the concentric rings of Proteus colonies to the branching networks that motile microbes paint across agar plates. Now researchers at Columbia University have turned one of biology’s most familiar workhorses, Escherichia coli, into…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (651+ words) Rice feeds more than half of humanity, yet the crop faces a future in which heat waves and drought increasingly arrive not as separate threats but as simultaneous ones....

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (529+ words) Every cell in the brain carries essentially the same genome, yet the same gene can produce a startling variety of RNA molecules. Through a process called alternative splicing, segments of a gene’s transcript can be included, skipped, or rearranged, generating…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (628+ words) A coating built from red seaweed could soon replace one of medicine’s most indispensable yet most fragile ingredients....

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (661+ words) A single protein called BAX sits at the gateway between life and death for human cells. When tissues are injured, stressed, or deprived of oxygen, BAX springs into action, punching holes in the outer membrane of mitochondria and triggering the…...

1+ day, 7+ 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, 7+ hour ago   (55+ words) Every year, the global citrus industry discards millions of tonnes of orange peels, a fragrant mountain of waste rich in pectin, essential oils and polyphenols. Most of this material ends up in landfills or low-value animal feed, even though its…...

1+ day, 7+ hour 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....