Core-Shell Nanoparticles and Smartphones Team Up to Catch E. coli in Minutes
Researchers have built a core-shell Ag@Au nanoparticle biosensor that pairs plasmonic sensing with smartphone-based machine learning to rapidly and selectively ...
Tag: water quality
River Beetles Reveal How Drought and City Pollution Reshape Moroccan Streams
A four-season survey of Morocco's Martil River shows that drought and urban pollution drive dramatic turnover in aquatic beetle communities, ...
AI Forecasts Ecological Risk From Heavy Metals in New York–New Jersey Harbor
A new machine learning framework accurately forecasts ecological risk from copper, lead, and mercury pollution in the Lower Passaic River, ...
Drug-Resistant Bacteria Slip Through South African Wastewater Plants Into Rivers
A genomic study of two Johannesburg wastewater plants finds multidrug-resistant Enterococcus and Staphylococcus bacteria carrying resistance and virulence genes in ...
Two Rivers, Two Methods: DNA and Microscopes Reveal Hidden Diatom Diversity in the Euphrates-Tigris
The first combined morphological and DNA metabarcoding survey of epiphytic diatoms in Iraq reveals 284 taxa and over 1,400 molecular ...
Hidden bacteria in Black Sea wedge clams shift with the seasons, study finds
A two-year study on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast shows that the bacterial communities inside wedge clams shift with temperature, ...
Diatom DNA Metabarcoding Passes Its First Cross-Laboratory Stress Test Across Europe
A 17-laboratory proficiency test across 14 European countries shows that diatom DNA metabarcoding protocols can be transferred between labs and ...
Car-Wash Wastewater Is Quietly Choking Urban Streams in Ethiopia
A new study in Jimma, Ethiopia, shows that untreated car-wash effluent sharply degrades urban stream water quality and habitat, with ...
Trees on cattle farms may keep Panama’s tropical streams cleaner, first field test suggests
A first-of-its-kind survey on five Panamanian silvopastoral farms links stream health to the amount of carbon stored in riparian trees, ...
Seasonal synchrony inflates spatial dependence in water-quality Markov chains: evidence from a fine-scale agricultural wetland
In the quiet polders and drainage ditches of an agricultural wetland on the edge of Lake Taihu, eight water-quality monitoring ...
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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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