17+ min ago   (70+ words) Scientists in China have found a way to lock superhard diamond particles into a high-entropy alloy coating so effectively that the material’s wear loss drops by more than 16 percent and its wear volume by over 40 percent compared with the alloy…...

18+ min ago   (569+ words) In the intensively irrigated farmland of Egypt’s Nile Delta, knowing exactly when crops begin to suffer from water stress can mean the difference between a viable harvest and devastating losses....

18+ min ago   (82+ words) The GLP-1 receptor agonist semaglutide has already reshaped the conversation around obesity medicine, and a new systematic review and meta-analysis published in the International Journal of Obesity adds an important dimension to that story. The analysis examined what happens when…...

20+ min ago   (660+ words) Two of the most troublesome greenhouse gases, methane and carbon dioxide, can be forced to react with one another in a process known as dry reforming of methane, a reaction that converts both pollutants into valuable synthesis gas, a mixture…...

20+ 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,…...

20+ min ago   (96+ words) A sweeping genetic investigation of more than 1,200 elite bread wheat lines has delivered one of the clearest pictures yet of how wheat can defend itself against spot blotch, a destructive fungal disease that thrives in the warm, humid wheat belts…...

20+ min ago   (73+ words) A single microRNA molecule may help determine whether the parasitic blood fluke Schistosoma japonicum thrives inside its host or succumbs to programmed cell death, according to a new study published in Acta Parasitologica. Researchers led by Yuanzhao Sun and Haoran…...

20+ min ago   (84+ words) Chronic kidney disease is one of the world’s most burdensome chronic conditions, a slow and often silent deterioration of renal function that affects hundreds of millions of people and frequently goes undetected until the damage is advanced. Staging the disease…...

20+ min ago   (744+ words) For decades, the central obstacle to testing therapies that slow human aging has been painfully simple: aging takes decades to measure. A drug that genuinely delays the biological processes of aging would need years, often a lifetime, of follow-up before…...

20+ min ago   (72+ words) A sweeping new review of cytochrome P450 enzymes in fish is reshaping how scientists understand the invisible chemical battleground inside aquatic organisms. Published in Discover Biotechnology, the analysis synthesizes decades of research on the heme-containing monooxygenases that sit at the crossroads…...