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Bitter Gourd Hybrids Show Huge Nutritional Boosts in Landmark Breeding Study
A large line × tester study of bitter gourd identified parental lines and F1 hybrids with heterosis exceeding 50 percent,...
Epigenetic Clocks Pass a Real-World Test in Rural West Africa
A study of 393 adults in south-central Côte d'Ivoire shows that DNA methylation epigenetic clocks are valid biomarkers of aging...
Deep Learning Scans Gene Data to Reveal New Asthma Biomarkers
Researchers in India combined convolutional neural networks, a bird-inspired optimization algorithm, and graph neural networks to identify four promising asthma...
Smart Solar Dryer Knows When Bananas Are Done, Cutting Drying Time by 20 Percent
Thai researchers have built an IoT-enabled parabolic solar dryer that uses uncertainty-aware load-cell moisture monitoring to stop banana drying at...
Battery Research Has a Reporting Problem, and a New Living Review Aims to Fix It
A meta-analysis of 200 lithium-ion and lithium–sulfur cathode papers reveals widespread under-reporting of key experimental parameters, prompting the creation of...
Antibodies in Newborn Cord Blood Raise Questions but Rarely Signal Disease in First Year
A prospective cohort study of 171 newborns found that roughly 15 percent tested positive for antinuclear antibodies in cord blood,...
Raman Spectra of Viral RNA Reveal a New Way to Tell SARS-CoV-2 Variants Apart
High-resolution Raman spectroscopy of purified RNA from 20 SARS-CoV-2 variants and subvariants yields unique structural barcodes that classify strains without...
Cold Sintering Turns Humble Calcium Hydroxide into Quantum-Grade Thin-Film Targets
Researchers used cold sintering with water as a flux to fabricate dense calcium hydroxide sputtering targets below 300 degrees Celsius,...
Tiny Pin-Fin Swirls Boost Mist Cooling for Hotter, Safer Jet Engines
A new numerical study shows that a pin fin-shaped vortex generator placed upstream of a cylindrical film cooling hole creates...
Why China Kept Its Five-Year Plans While India Abandoned Them: New Study Reveals the Governance Divide
A new comparative study finds that China's five-year planning system survived through institutionalized coordination and learning capacities, while India's equivalent...
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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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