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Molecular enhancements help plants light up when they're under attack
- Mar 19, 2026
Imagine that plants could tell us exactly when they're stressed, infected, or being eaten by insects, by lighting up. A new study led by Dr. Karen Sar...
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Durum wheat lines combine freezing tolerance with high pasta quality
- Mar 19, 2026
Researchers from Skoltech, the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center in Mexico, the Research Center for Cereal and Industrial Crops in Ital...
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Audit managers' work-life balance suffered during COVID
- Mar 19, 2026
It's been six years since the COVID pandemic swept the world, and by now we are all familiar with the pros and cons of remote working. As the protract...
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Light-activated medicines may cut side effects: How a switchable beta blocker works
- Mar 19, 2026
Rendering a drug effective or ineffective in a flash at the appropriate location—this is the focus of research in photopharmacology. The goal is to de...
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An AI-guided gene-editing tool for more precise and safer DNA correction
- Mar 19, 2026
Researchers at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) have developed a revolutionary new method to impro...
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Fluorescent dye that works in superacidic conditions expands possibilities for imaging in extreme environments
- Mar 19, 2026
Since the 1960s, boron–dipyrromethene dyes, commonly called BODIPY dyes, have been widely used for their strong fluorescence, especially in bioimaging...
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Milkweed evolves 'mind-blowing' tactic to fight monarchs
- Mar 19, 2026
Milkweed has found a new strategy in its epic evolutionary battle with monarch butterflies: upgrading its toxins to outmaneuver the monarch's resistan...
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Pompeii's battle scars linked to an ancient 'machine gun'
- Mar 19, 2026
The ancient city of Pompeii is one of those archaeological sites that keeps on giving with one discovery after another. While much of what we know abo...
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How a tryptophan-rich allosteric communication network helps activate a major drug target receptor
- Mar 19, 2026
A multinational research team led by researchers at Institute of Science Tokyo, RIKEN, and the University of Toronto has revealed how a tryptophan-ric...
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Earthquake scientists reveal how overplowing weakens soil at experimental farm
- Mar 19, 2026
Plowing, or tilling, is an age-old agricultural practice that readies the soil for planting by turning over the top layer to expose fresh earth. The m...
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Monte Verde fieldwork resets age of famous South American archaeological site
- Mar 19, 2026
New research led by a University of Wyoming archaeologist near an ancient encampment in South America challenges a relatively new but widely accepted...
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How an RNA-binding protein detects and responds to non-optimal codon usage in human cells
- Mar 19, 2026
Human genes are written in long strings of three-letter units composed of four different nucleotides. These units—or codons—specify one of many amino...