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Researchers have solved one key piece of the molecular puzzle needed to dramatically improve plant productivity and increase carbon sequestration: They have successfully transferred key regions of a highly efficient red algae into a tobacco plant.

Microbes help plants cope with drought, but not in response to plants’ cries for help. Instead, a new study suggests that the environment itself self-selects for drought-tolerant microbes that just happen to make plants more drought-tolerant too.

AI-enabled portable sensor can be used to manage hazardous waste, monitor air quality, identify spoiled food, and diagnose diseases.

An alternative testable and actionable hypothesis/model about the cause of obesity relating to obesogens in ultra-processed foods and environmental toxins has been presented. If validated, it could indicate clear steps to reverse obesity.

Local bat activity reduces as farms transition to becoming organic, a new study has found. However, analysis of established organic farms suggests that this activity can recover.

Researchers have developed a new device that breaks the normally close relationship between the absorbed and emitted energy efficiencies of an object, opening the door to improved green energy harvesting systems.

Perovskite oxyhydrides are promising compounds for catalytic systems and batteries. Unfortunately, their synthesis is usually quite challenging, but scientists may have found a solution.

Researchers have developed a deep-sea mass spectrometer that operated continuously and reliably for over 8 hours under simulated water depths of -5800 meters.

Researchers have identified a method that uses a combination of heat, water and phase extraction to isolate phosphorus – an essential but non-renewable element with many industrial uses – from wastewater sludge.

In a new study, researchers report how beewolves protect their symbiotic bacteria from toxic nitric oxide in their brood cell.