15+ min ago   (74+ words) Sub-Saharan Africa is running out of time and topsoil. A sweeping new meta-analysis synthesizing 317 peer-reviewed studies published between 2010 and 2025 has delivered the most comprehensive quantitative verdict yet on whether biologically derived inputs and engineered materials can rescue the region’s collapsing…...

15+ min ago   (769+ words) Older adults undergoing cancer treatment face a hidden metabolic threat that has long slipped through the cracks of oncology care. Corticosteroids, which are woven into many chemotherapy regimens and supportive care protocols to suppress nausea, allergic reactions and immune-related toxicity,…...

15+ min ago   (55+ words) Radar systems are the invisible guardians of modern aviation, shipping, and defense, but they operate in an increasingly hostile electromagnetic environment. Adversaries deliberately flood the spectrum with jamming signals designed to blind radars, confuse their receivers, and mask real targets....

46+ min ago   (623+ words) Every year, millions of tonnes of mango seeds are discarded as waste after the fruit is processed for juice, pulp, and dried products. In Nigeria alone, one of the world’s largest mango producers, the kernels inside those seeds pile up…...

46+ min ago   (662+ words) Springer Nature has opened the nomination and selection process for its Editor of Distinction Awards 2026, an annual program designed to recognize the editors whose behind-the-scenes judgment keeps the scientific record trustworthy....

1+ hour, 6+ min ago   (55+ words) Scientists have unveiled a powerful new method that allows researchers to measure intact protein forms, known as proteoforms, one molecule at a time and on a scale never before possible. The technique, called Iterative Mapping of proteoforms, was demonstrated on…...

1+ hour, 22+ min ago   (74+ words) Sorghum has long lived in the shadow of wheat, rice, maize, and barley, ranking fifth among the world’s cereals with global production of roughly 61 million tons. Yet a sweeping new review published in the Journal of Agriculture and Food Research…...

1+ hour, 22+ min ago   (74+ words) Rice feeds more than half of humanity, yet its two great subspecies have taken strikingly different evolutionary paths when it comes to fighting one of its most destructive diseases. A recent commentary published in Stress Biology by Yachun Su, Shoujian…...

1+ hour, 58+ min ago   (96+ words) Rice paddies are among the most productive agricultural ecosystems on Earth, feeding billions of people across Asia and beyond. Yet beneath the flooded fields lies a complex microbial world whose balance determines whether the soil stays fertile or degrades over…...

1+ hour, 58+ min ago   (773+ words) When Tropical Cyclone Ana swept across eastern Zimbabwe in January 2022, it was far less devastating than Cyclone Idai, which had killed 347 people and caused more than a billion dollars in losses three years earlier....