Modern agriculture is underpinned by a steady supply of fertilizer.
Much of what scientists think about soil metabolism may be wrong.
More than a third of the world’s population lives in drylands, areas that experience significant water shortages.
With the retreat of sprawling empires after the Second World War, one might think the colonial mindset of taking from smaller countries to support large nations would likewise be relegated to the past.
Even though consumers won’t see it for years, researchers around the world are already laying the foundation for the next generation of wireless communications, 6G.
In a new study at the University of Missouri, researchers found that zinc ion plays a crucial regulatory role in the sperm capacitation process, or series of changes sperm undergo in the female reproductive tract that enable them to fertilize an egg.
Targeting these circuits could offer a new way to reverse motor dysfunction and depression in Parkinson’s patients.
Studying a powerful type of cyberattack, researchers identified a flaw in how it’s been analyzed before, then developed new techniques that stop it in its tracks.
Jonathan Weissman and collaborators used their single-cell sequencing tool Perturb-seq on every expressed gene in the human genome, linking each to its job in the cell.
CSAIL scientists’ novel hardware attack against the Apple M1 chip defeats the last line of security while leaving no trace.
Researchers demonstrate two security methods that efficiently protect analog-to-digital converters from powerful attacks that aim to steal user data.
A study shows that yeast, an abundant waste product from breweries, can filter out even trace amounts of lead.
A new computational model could explain differences in recognizing facial emotions.
Based on an antibody study, dried samples of easily self-collected saliva and of blood drawn from the fingertip could be useful for monitoring people’s immune responses to vaccination.
Researchers from the University of Helsinki and KU Leuven in Belgium investigated the arrival and spread of SARS-CoV-2 in Finland in 2020.
Meat production is a significant source of greenhouse gasses and widespread adoption of a plant-based diet is key to achieving the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
Designing new drugs that can target specific diseases is a challenging but crucial task for preventing and treating human diseases.
New wearable technology creates new possibilities for assessing the neurological development of young children.
When our sun exhausts the hydrogen fuel in its core some 5 billion years from now, it will expand to become a red giant, engulfing the inner planets.
Study finds all brown bears today have some polar bear ancestry due to genetic admixture that occurred during a warm interglacial period more than 100,000 years ago