Agriculture
Machine Learning Leads Soil Mapping Race, but No Single Model Wins Everywhere
A first-of-its-kind systematic review of 190 studies finds that HASM, Euclidean-enhanced machine learning, and Bayesian Maximum Entropy each excel under...
Dollar Stores Become America’s Fastest-Growing Food Retailers, Prompting Major Study
A $1 million USDA-funded study led by the University of Rhode Island will examine how the rapid rise of dollar...
Fungal Trigger Supercharges Stevia’s Sweet Compounds in Cell Cultures
Researchers at the University of the Punjab showed that a crude extract from an endophytic Fusarium oxysporum strain boosts steviol...
Domestication May Have Blunted Pepper’s Intercropping Edge With Maize
A new Plant and Soil study finds that domesticated pepper varieties lose the root trait plasticity that helps wild ancestors...
Biochar on Sandy Soils: A 32-Year Map of a Quiet Agricultural Revolution
A new bibliometric analysis of 543 publications maps three decades of exponential growth in research on biochar as a remedy...
Overfermented cocoa beans can smell smoky without any smoke at all
Researchers at the Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology in Munich have shown that overfermentation of cocoa beans produces smoky,...
Sausage Tree Seeds Lose Their Power After Just One Year in Storage, Benin Study Finds
A new study from Benin shows that seeds of the threatened sausage tree Kigelia africana germinate best when fresh and...
Natural Tritium Traces the Hidden Water Sources of Temperate Forest Trees
Researchers in northeastern Japan show that natural tritium gradients in near-surface soil water can reveal the depths from which humid...
Plastic Mulch and Nitrogen Team Up to Boost Camelina Oil Yields in Drylands
A field study in western Iran shows that combining soil-surface plastic mulch with 120 kilograms of nitrogen per hectare significantly...
New Soil Scoring Method Reveals Hidden Damage From Polluted River Irrigation
Researchers in Aligarh, India, developed a new Standard Weight Scoring method for soil quality indices that outperforms traditional approaches in...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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