A wealth of genes for seed improvement uncovered in living fossils

Seed plants are essential as a source of food, fuel, medicine, and more. Now, a multidisciplinary team of researchers has ...

Surprising blood stem cell diversification revealed in humans

Every second, millions of blood cells are produced in the human body, and about 90% of the cells replaced daily are blood ...
IEEE

A Novel Landsat-Derived Multispectral Index for Coal Dust Detection: Spatiotemporal Dispersion Patterns and Natural Driving Forces

Abstract: Coal dust pollution, a major byproduct of mining, poses significant environmental and health risks. However, the temporal diffusion and spatial extent of coal dust remain unclear, ...
C&EN

Catechol Tetrahydroisoquinolines: Synthesis, Biological Activity, and Natural Occurrence in Portulaca oleracea as Analyzed by UPLC-Q-TOF-ESI-MS/MS

State Key Laboratory of Discovery and Utilization of Functional Components in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology (Ministry of Education), Institute of Pharmacognosy, ...
Live Science

Plants self-organize in a 'hidden order,' echoing pattern found across nature

Scientists have identified this pattern more and more throughout the natural world, from the atomic scale to entire galaxies. The rods and cones in birds' eyes are organized in a hyperuniform way, and ...