4+ 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…...

4+ 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....

24+ 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…...

40+ 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…...

40+ 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, 16+ 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, 16+ 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....

1+ hour, 41+ min ago   (56+ words) Scientists probing why people with Parkinson’s disease so often suffer fragile, fracture-prone bones have uncovered new molecular evidence that the two conditions may be linked by a shared signaling network spanning the brain and the skeleton. A new preclinical study,…...

1+ hour, 41+ min ago   (548+ words) On Kenya’s Indian Ocean coast, the cashew tree has long been more than a crop; it is a livelihood anchor for tens of thousands of rural households. Yet the nut that once sustained Kilifi County’s farm economy is in trouble....

1+ hour, 41+ min ago   (721+ words) A new qualitative study from China offers one of the most detailed maps to date of what patients with cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome actually value about their health, and the picture that emerges is strikingly broader than the clinical targets that dominate…...