17+ hour, 5+ min ago   (718+ words) Arsenic in the groundwater of Bangladesh remains one of the world’s most severe environmental health crises, with naturally mobilized arsenic exceeding guideline values across large parts of the Bengal Basin....

19+ hour, 59+ min ago   (73+ words) A humble byproduct of bioethanol fermentation, long relegated to low-value disposal, could soon find itself blended into the world’s fuel tanks. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have shown that fusel oil, the mixture of higher alcohols that distillers skim…...

20+ hour, 44+ min ago   (94+ words) The blue dye that colors denim, candies, and medicines may soon face an unexpected adversary: the discarded remains of old cellphone batteries. In a study published in Discover Industrial Chemistry and Materials, a team of Brazilian researchers led by Eric…...

21+ hour, 3+ min ago   (83+ words) Bitterness is often dismissed as a nuisance of the dinner plate, the flavor note that makes children push away Brussels sprouts and coffee drinkers reach for sugar. Yet for evolutionary biologists and physiologists, the ability to detect bitter compounds is…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (534+ words) Researchers at the University of Toronto and the University of Saskatchewan have engineered a compact, far-red light-responsive protein pair that could redefine how scientists switch molecules on and off inside living cells. The new system, described in Nature Methods, pairs…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (890+ words) SimuScan uses realistic synthetic data to train AI to identify important nanoscale features and guide atomic force microscopes toward the most informative regions of a sample image: AI-assisted atomic force microscopy identifies tiny surface structures such as nanostructures, DNA assemblies…...

3+ day, 30+ min ago   (224+ words) EurekAlert! A working model illustrating how red and blue light promote isoflavonoid biosynthesis in the roots of A. mongholicus. Astragalus mongholicus, a cornerstone of traditional Chinese medicine, produces isoflavonoids—bioactive compounds with anti-inflammatory, immune-boosting, and antiviral properties. However, the molecular machinery…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (451+ words) Picturing batteries like bulbous wine decanters filled with foamy beer, as we did in the previous article about State of Charge, greatly helps to understand everyday problems with SoC estimation, balancing problems and sudden standstills. But this analogy also greatly…...